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Archives: Articles

 The Yellow-breasted Chat is one of the more challenging birds to spot for those involved in the World Series of Birding. (AP Photo/New Jersey Audubon Society, Robert Lego)

Next Exit Shore Guide (week of May 9-15)

In the second week of May, all thoughts tend to involve Mom. If you’re from New Jersey or the Philadelphia region, chances are some ...

12 years ago

 The view of the Atlantic Ocean at Beach Haven. (Shumita Basu/for NewsWorks)

Next Exit Shore Guide (Week of May 1-8)

May is finally upon us and the Jersey Shore beckons. Thoughts turn to summer and just how to shed those extra winter pounds before the hi ...

12 years ago

Main Line eye doc, daughter charged with pot sales

An eye doctor on Philadelphia’s well-to-do Main Line is charged, along with his daughter, with growing and selling marijuana. ...

12 years ago

 Chuck Appleby's Seaside Park, N.J. house (Tracey Samuelson/WHYY)

Shore homeowners have no place to stay while rebuilding from Sandy

A year and a half after Superstorm Sandy, an increasing number of homeowners on the Jersey Shore are finally receiving funding to begin c ...

12 years ago

Listen
 Sustainable design graduate student Joseph Tursi and the Friends of Gorgas Park director, John Boyce, leading the charrette on Tuesday evening. (Emily Brooks/for NewsWorks)

Community members imagine a different future for Gorgas Park

On Tuesday evening, fittingly Earth Day, a group of Philadelphia University students and Roxborough residents gathered at the university& ...

12 years ago

 A mother plays with her 5-year-old son after he fed himself during a session in the pediatric feeding disorder program at the Marcus Autism Center in Atlanta in this 2013 photo. (David Goldman/AP Photo, file)

Autism risk increases in children born to older women, Drexel study finds

Why autism strikes certain kids — and not others — has puzzled scientists for half a century. But one trend is clear: having ...

12 years ago

First lady announcing jobs website for veterans

The government is developing a website to help job-seeking veterans and military spouses create resumes, make connections with employers ...

12 years ago

Soldier convicted in WikiLeaks case gets new name

A Kansas judge has granted a request to formally change the name of the soldier convicted of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks fr ...

12 years ago

 The author poses with the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in the background. (Image courtesy of Josh Kruger)

I choose life over death with HIV, and I owe it to you

I take one pill, once a day, provided to me by the state of Pennsylvania. Without this medication, and without the prior and ongoing work ...

12 years ago

 The late Penn State head coach Joe Paterno pictured at Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa., on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006 (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo, file)

Restaurant plans new statue of Joe Paterno

Fans of the late Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno are planning to commission a new bronze statue of him, and place it acr ...

12 years ago

 Phoebe Haddon will start in New Jersey on July 1. (Courtesy of Rutgers-Camden)

Rutgers names new chancellor for Camden campus

The dean of the University of Maryland’s law school has been named the new chancellor for Rutgers University’s Camden campus. ...

12 years ago

Man shot by Philly police may have feared robbery

Police say a man shot and wounded by plainclothes officers in Philadelphia was a pizza deliveryman who may have mistaken them for robbers ...

12 years ago

 Delaware Symphony Orchestra (photo courtesy of DSO Facebook)

Delaware Symphony Orchestra names new chairman

Bruce O. Kallos will serve as the new Chair of the Board of Directors of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra. Kallos has served on the ...

12 years ago

 Violinist Franco Yugga and violinist Sean Bennett perform  at City Hall to advocate for arts funding on Tuesday afternoon. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Philly artists perform for more funding at City Hall [video]

Arts organizations from across Philadelphia performed at City Hall on Tuesday to garner support for restoring arts funding in the city.&n ...

12 years ago

 Ofc. Joseph Fastige, Dawn Roach, 31, and her newborn son, Jason O’Jon Roach Jr., and Ocean County Sheriff's Department Telecommunicator Alia Hartman. (Photo courtesy of the Manchester Police Department)
Down the Shore

A team effort: Manchester baby born with help of 911 operator, police officer

A recent “special delivery” in Manchester was a team effort.  It all began when Alia Hartman, an Ocean County She ...

12 years ago

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