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Coast Guard hoists sick man from cruise ship off N.J.
The U.S. Coast Guard came to the rescue of a 70-year-old man who fell ill on a cruise ship off New Jersey on Saturday night.
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This week: the ongoing battle over Neshaminy High School's team name, the Redskins, Philadelphia City Councilmember-elect Kendra Brooks, and the Eagles' big game.
Air Date: December 30, 2019 10:00 am
Listen 49:00Three years after famous hunger strike, las Madres Berks reunite to grieve one of their own
After spending nearly two years in the Berks Family Residential Center, Maria Martinez Nolasco was released. Then she was killed.
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Listen 3:342019 Brought stepped-up efforts to counter white supremacist violence
The torch-wielding racists who marched on Charlottesville, Va., two years ago showed the ugly new face of the far right.
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Tracing your family’s roots may soon get a lot more expensive
Dec. 30 is the deadline to submit a comment to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services over a proposed fee hike to access some records.
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The global stories of 2019 that you probably missed
Sure, everybody thinks it's great when a story is read by many hundreds of thousands of folks. That's definitely a success.
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‘Somebody’s on my side’: 3 men who escaped poverty help others find a way out
Paul Collins-Hackett sits in Albany's Youth Opportunity Office trying to guide a teenage boy through the ins and outs of getting a job.
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Hundreds of accused clergy left off church’s sex abuse lists
Richard J. Poster served time for possessing child pornography, violated his probation by having contact with children and in 2005 was put on a sex offender registry.
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It’s Patriots Week in Trenton, and thousands celebrate a Revolutionary War win like it’s 1777
The annual Patriots Week events mark the battle that turned serial loser George Washington into a superstar of military strategy.
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From a hashtag to a movement: #NatSecGirlSquad empowers women in national security
Dozens of national security specialists clustered inside a Washington hotel, warming up with coffee and checking out booths set up by intelligence agencies.
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19 Philadelphia stories you hated to see in 2019
From injured Eagles to corrupt politicians, there’s plenty of reasons to look forward to a fresh start in the new year.
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People can’t even agree on when the decade ends
Confusion over the answer is similar to the uncertainty that hung over watershed events from the millennium to the 2009-2010 changeover.
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Man in ‘I Believe’ hat swipes $250, tip jar on Christmas Day
Police in Philadelphia are looking for a thief who sported a hat that said “I Believe” as he swiped a tip jar stuffed with $250 on Christmas Day.
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The Wawa data breach: What happens now?
Typically, a long process of corporate accountability unfolds after a breach like the one Wawa announced Dec. 20, affecting 850 stores.
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Four questions Pa. needs to answer to avert election chaos in 2020
Pick an issue, any issue. Environmental health? Fiscal conservatism? Probation reform?
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