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Here’s what the WHYY newsroom is chasing down for tonight’s “NewsWorks Tonight” broadcast. Kevin McCorry w ...

Pa. Gov. Tom Corbett’s Advisory Commission on Postsecondary Education is meeting in Harrisburg on Thursday to seek public opinion o ...

There is a move in Dover to make sure if kids are going to be couch-potatoes, they aren’t one during school hours. Delaware ...

A Philadelphia zoning dispute was aired out during a City Council committee hearing.  Some Norris Square neighbors object to ...

PATCO wants to hear how you feel about the Quiet Car pilot program. On ...

Fallsers are saying “don’t fence me in.” This week, members of the East Falls Community Council voted against pr ...

A sport once famously called “a ruffian’s game played by gentlemen” is returning to the Delaware Valley. On the first w ...

Two writers at New York magazine have highly different takes o ...

From the Associated Press: Jerry Sandusky again asked a judge to throw out the child sexual abuse charges against him on Wednesday, ...

On May 16, 2011, WHYY introduced NewsWorks Tonight, a daily radio show whose goal is to showcase the best reporting and storytelling from ...

New Jersey families are having a hard time getting public schools to recognize dyslexia in their children and to provide appropriate reso ...

To deal with budget problems, the strapped city of Chester is considering taxing soccer fans.  The proposal calls for adding a 10 pe ...

It’s heartening to learn that Connecticut has now abolished capital punishment – the fifth state to renounce government-sanct ...

 Forum in Dover focuses on poverty and economic challenges facing Delaware residents.   The first of three gatherings hos ...

CAMDEN, N.J.  — The school superintendent in Camden is leaving the job after five years. The district’s school board ...