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This week: WHYY's Delaware reporter Mark Eichmann joins us to tell us what's going on in the state, Philadelphia's hiring problem, and saving the John Coltrane House.

Penn National will soon own 50% of the self-described “pop culture blog.”

For the first time, the U.S. Census Bureau is giving people in the country’s two largest racial categories space to give more details about their origins.

Union Fire Company has struggled to serve its Latino community in the past, but new efforts to recruit Spanish-speakers are making progress.

New Jersey State Police marine troopers rescued two kayakers in the Barnegat Bay on Wednesday, authorities say.

In the rush to replace unreliable electronic voting machines, state and local officials have scrambled to acquire more trustworthy equipment for this year’s election.

A pregnant woman and her child were killed in a double shooting that critically injured a man in north Philadelphia, authorities said.

A former model uses fashion to teach life lessons in the after-school program Real Men Speak.

A West Philadelphia church is rebuilding after a 2019 fire. Most of the 115-year-old building will be demolished but the bell tower will be preserved.

A new breed of college athletes — video gamers — now has their own arena at Delaware’s flagship university.

The afternoon shooting on West Thompson Street claimed the life of 19-year-old Yaniyah Foster, who died Wednesday at Temple University Hospital after being shot in the head.

Spirit Airlines will increase the number of flights to and from its key markets in Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, Florida and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

“Hell of a way to find out,” the Tonight Show drummer said. “Wow.”

Other cities have been much more successful in adopting the sexual violence prevention training.

“You cannot put a price tag on validation. And you cannot put a price tag on reclaiming power."