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National Weather Service confirms a tornado touched down, caused damage in Bucks County

The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado touched down Thursday night in Bucks County.

4 years ago

People celebrate, raising their fists in the air.
Business
Employment

Amazon workers in NYC vote to unionize, a first for company

Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York, voted to unionize on Friday, marking the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant’s history.

4 years ago

Art featuring fruit hangs on a white wall.
LGBTQ
Philadelphia
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Billy Penn

Trans Art Mart brings 50 vendors to an inclusive outdoor marketplace at Love City Brewing on Saturday

The event has been more than two years in the making.

4 years ago

Signs at the CBD Kratom store in Radnor, Pa., covered on March 31, 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Business
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National retailer CBD Kratom sues Radnor Township over ordinance

As enacted, the ordinance bans kratom and Delta-8 sales within 1,000 feet of a school, playground, or daycare center, preventing a new shop from opening.

4 years ago

The Wardrobe, located at 413 N. 4th St., is a nonprofit thrift store dedicated to ending clothing insecurity. (Bradley Taylor)
PlanPhilly
Business
Income Inequality
Philadelphia

‘Everyone and everything has a second chance’ at this Philly thrift store

The Wardrobe is a Philly thrift store that provides communities in need with free clothing. They work with returning citizens, immigrants, and more.

4 years ago

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Pennsylvania
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1 officer killed, 2 others shot in Lebanon, Pa.

Police officers went to a home in the city at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday when the gunfire broke out and officers radioed in they were hit.

4 years ago

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw and former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch
Gender
National
Philadelphia

A pair of firsts: Philly police commissioner Danielle Outlaw joins Obama-era AG Loretta Lynch in virtual chat

The hour-long chat marked the end of Women’s History Month.

4 years ago

A man walks with a bicycle in a street damaged by shelling in Mariupol
International
Public Safety

Ukraine: Russians leaving Chernobyl after radiation exposure

Its forces seized the Chernobyl site in the opening stages of the Feb. 24 invasion, raising fears that they would cause damage or disruption that could spread radiation.

4 years ago

A LEGO-based figurine inspired by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
NPR
Business
International

This toy maker wanted to help Ukrainian refugees. The response stunned him

A custom LEGO store in a Chicago suburb has raised more than $145,000 for Ukraine relief by selling figurines of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Molotov cocktails.

4 years ago

A sign outside Frankford Library indicates that it is closed
Employment
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
Billy Penn

About 1 in 7 Philly neighborhood libraries can’t fully open each day, on top of already reduced hours

Advocates — and the new Free Library director — say the solution lies with increased funding for staff.

4 years ago

Early Yoshino cherry blooms in West Fairmount Park, looking pretty good despite the frost. (Courtesy of Sandi Polyakov)
PlanPhilly
Environment
Outdoors
Philadelphia
Public Spaces

After frost hits Philly’s cherry blossoms, ‘fingers crossed’ for a full bloom

Horticulturists say bloom times are creeping earlier as the climate warms — possibly putting the blossoms at greater risk of frost.

4 years ago

File - Plastic trash is deposited at the high tide line at Monmouth Beach, New Jersey. (Emma Lee / WHYY)
New Jersey
Outdoors
Public Spaces

Plastic remains the most collected litter at New Jersey beaches

Clean Ocean Action’s annual Beach Sweeps Report says plastic and foam remains the most collected piece of litter across 70 beaches in the Garden State.

4 years ago

Olga and Oleksandr hug as they wait beside a vehicle painted with the word
NPR
Health Care
International
Public Safety

Maternity patients among 20,000 civilians forcibly deported to Russia, Mariupol says

Under the Geneva Conventions, it is a war crime for an occupying power to deport people to any other country or territory during an international conflict.

4 years ago

A man walks in his apartment ruined after the Russian shelling in Kyiv
International
Public Safety

Russia hits near Kyiv, other city despite vows to scale back

The shelling further tempered optimism about possible progress in talks aimed at ending the punishing war.

4 years ago

Helicopter footage shows Levittown Lanes on fire in Bucks County.
Pennsylvania
Public Safety
6abc

Massive 3-alarm fire destroys Levittown Lanes bowling alley in Bucks County

The fire started around 5:15 a.m. Wednesday at Levittown Lanes on the 8800 block of New Falls Road.

4 years ago

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