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A Way with Words is an upbeat and lively show about language examined through culture, history, and family. Language debates, variations, and evolution, as well as new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, word histories, etymology, linguistics, regional dialects, word games, grammar, books, literature, writing, and more.
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A Way with Words

A Way with Words is an upbeat and lively show about language examined through culture, history, and family. Language debates, variations, and evolution, as well as new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, word histories, etymology, linguistics, regional dialects, word games, grammar, books, literature, writing, and more.

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Courts & Law

Chemical companies to pay Pennsylvania $100 million for PCB contamination

PCBs were banned in 1979 for their potential dangers to human and environmental health.

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Bethany Hall-Long addresses the crowd
Politics & Policy

Delaware Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long enters the gubernatorial race, aiming to become the second woman elected governor

Hall-Long hopes to become the first nurse elected to the state’s top spot in Dover.

2 years ago

OVID-19 vaccines are readied for use at a clinic
Health

CDC panel recommends updated COVID vaccines. Shots could be ready this week

The agency’s director is expected to sign off on the panel’s recommendation and the vaccines could be available this week.

2 years ago

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WHYY is hosting a ‘pop-up’ newsroom in Media, Pa.

The “pop-up” newsrooms are a continued effort to deepen our relationship with the communities we serve.

2 years ago

construction workers
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6 protesters arrested as onshore testing work for New Jersey wind farm begins

Ocean City has become the hub of resistance to offshore wind projects in New Jersey and elsewhere along the U.S. East Coast.

2 years ago

police on the football field
Courts & Law

Man gets 70-year sentence for shooting that killed 10-year-old Micah Tennant at Pleasantville football game

The shooting left a man and two children wounded. One of the youths, Micah Tennant, was shot in the neck and died five days later.

2 years ago

The screen at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans honors Tyre Nichols before an NBA basketball game between the New Orleans Pelicans and the Washington Wizards, Jan. 28, 2023
Courts & Law

5 former officers charged with federal civil rights violations in Tyre Nichols beating death

The new charges come nine months after the violent beating of Nichols by officers during a Jan. 7 traffic stop near his Memphis home. Nichols died three days later.

2 years ago

Dog getting resuced
Community
6abc

Stray dog recovers at ACCT Philly after construction workers rescue her on I-95 ramp

ACCT officials say they wouldn't have been able to save her without the workers.

2 years ago

In this photo taken from video released by governor of the Russian far eastern region of Primorsky Krai Oleg Kozhemyako telegram channel on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (foreground) steps down from his train after crossing the border to Russia at Khasan, about 127 km (79 miles) south of Vladivostok. North Korea's Kim Jong Un rolled into Russia on an armored train to see President Vladimir Putin
Politics & Policy

North Korea’s leader is in Russia to meet Putin, with both locked in standoffs with the West

Kim is expected to seek economic aid and military technology for his impoverished country.

2 years ago

Rendering of Wells Fargo Center exterior
Urban Planning

Wells Fargo Center adding LED screens, lights in final phase of transformation project

New LED screens, lighting, and canopies at the Wells Fargo Center will be completed by early 2024.

2 years ago

Ahchipaptunhe of the Delaware Tribe of Indians and Cherokee, created large scale paintings inspired by the geometric designs on Lenape stamped baskets and pottery. His work is featured in ''Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories,'' at the Michener Museum
Arts & Entertainment

Contemporary Lenape artists offer their perspective on Lenape history

“Never Broken” at Michener Museum in Doylestown, Pa., asked Indigenous artists to tell the history of the Lenape people.

2 years ago

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This satellite image provided by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Lee, right, in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, at 4:50 p.m. EDT. Lee is rewriting old rules of meteorology, leaving experts astonished at how rapidly it grew into a goliath Category 5 hurricane.
Weather
6abc

Rip currents, minor flooding expected at Jersey Shore from Hurricane Lee

As Hurricane Lee makes its way north, forecasters are watching for impacts on the Jersey Shore this week.

2 years ago

Former President Donald Trump stands as the crowd cheers at the South Dakota Republican Party Monumental Leaders rally Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, in Rapid City, S.D.
Courts & Law

Trump lawyers seek recusal of judge in DC presiding over federal election subversion case

They say her past public statements about the former president and his connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol call into question whether she can be fair.

2 years ago

Hagi Abucar puts flowers on the 9/11 Memorial during the commemoration ceremony on the 22nd anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, in New York
Community

The U.S. marks 22 years since 9/11 with tributes and tears, from ground zero to Alaska

People gathered Monday at memorials, firehouses, city halls, campuses and elsewhere to observe the 22nd anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil.

2 years ago

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Courts & Law
6abc

Escaped Chester County prisoner stole rifle, fled homeowner’s gunfire; remains at large

Residents in East Nantmeal and South Coventry townships are asked to lock all external doors and windows, secure vehicles, and remain indoors.

2 years ago

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