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Shovels outside Diston Recreation Center in Tacony in September 2019 JOE O'CONNOR / PARKS & REC
Infrastructure
Neighborhoods
Billy Penn

5 reasons Kenney’s grand Rebuild project might see some big changes

With a new director, the multimillion-dollar initiative is revving up.

6 years ago

(Photo: JSHN contributor Shane Skwarek‎)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Light snow on tap Tuesday night for the Shore

A quick hitting system will deliver light snow to a portion of the Jersey Shore Tuesday night, forecasters say.

6 years ago

A collapsed building with car crushed underneath, following an earthquake in Yauco, Puerto Rico, Tuesday Jan. 7, 2020.  All the occupants of the home are reported to be uninjured.  A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico, the largest in a series of quakes in recent days, and caused heavy damage in some areas.  (J. Miguel Santiago Twitter via AP)
Public Safety

Puerto Rico hit by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake amid seismic activity

The quake was followed by a series of strong aftershocks, part of a 10-day series of temblors spawned by the grinding of tectonic plates along three faults beneath southern PR

6 years ago

Newly placed Christmas trees buried in South Seaside Park dunes amid a nor'easter in 2017. (Image courtesy of Dominick Solazzo)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors

Island Beach State Park receives 2,000 Christmas trees: Here’s how it helps the dunes

While their season is now over, Christmas trees will have a second life by helping build up dunes in Ocean County's Island Beach State Park.

6 years ago

People walk through the Orthodox Jewish section of a Brooklyn neighborhood last month. Tensions remain high in Jewish communities following a series of attacks and incidents in recent weeks. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NPR
Religion

‘It’s getting very scary’: Hasidic Jews change routines amid anti-semitic attacks

The streets of Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood are usually busy with Hasidic families coming and going.

6 years ago

A harbor seal has its photo taken at the Marine Mammal Stranding Center, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, in Brigantine, N.J. The center is tending to the seal brought in with cuts and infection last month from Long Beach Island. (Ben Fogletto/The Press of Atlantic City via AP)
Radio Times
Behavioral Health
New Jersey

Regional Roundup – 01/06/19

This week: legal hemp in New Jersey, Pennsylvania's plan to serve the mentally ill, and seals are washing ashore (but stay away!)

Air Date: January 6, 2020 10:00 am

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Philadelphia Eagles' Carson Wentz
Sports
Billy Penn

10 great things about the Eagles season that just came to an end

From Jason Kelce in a crop-top to Malcolm Jenkins’ op-eds.

6 years ago

A group of 12 volunteers search for trails in a wooded area a quarter of a mile from Bridgeton City Park where 5-year-old Dulce Maria Alavez was last seen on Sept. 16, 2019. (Ximena Conde/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
New Jersey

As Dulce Alavez’s family rallies for support, community says, ‘We don’t know what else to do’

Family and supporters of missing 5-year-old Dulce Alavez worry interest in the case is waning in the place most likely to yield clues: the girl’s hometown.

6 years ago

Tricia Reedy Jones (center) is a Partnership Specialist for Philadelphia Regional Census Center. She came to Royersford for a recruitment information session for census takers on Jan. 4, 2020. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Pennsylvania
Policing

‘I don’t need the job’: Is $27/hr enough to entice workers for census in places like Montco?

A Royersford recruitment event suggested that could be hard. Potential employees asked about aspects of the gig like data and personal security, and ICE.

6 years ago

Seattle Seahawks' Jadeveon Clowney (90) hits Philadelphia Eagles' Carson Wentz (11) during the first half of an NFL wild-card playoff football game, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Philadelphia
Sports

Eagles wonder ‘what if?’ after Wentz knocked out with injury

Carson Wentz waited four years to make his first playoff start. The Eagles' franchise QB took only eight snaps before he ended another postseason on the sidelines.

6 years ago

Firefighters battle a blaze engulfing trees in the town of Nowra in the Australian state of New South Wales on Dec. 31, 2019. Fire conditions worsened into the New Year, with thousands forced to evacuate. (Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Environment
International

Australia deploys military reservists to combat wildfire, as thousands evacuate

The outbreak of wildfires in Australia has reached a tipping point. Thousands of residents were evacuated this week, as bush fires reached the suburban fringes of Sydney.

6 years ago

Exelon Corporation Three Mile Island nuclear generating station Unit 1 cooling towers in Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, PA. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive)
Energy
Pennsylvania
Public Safety
PA Post

Three Mile Island wants to end siren tests, radiation monitoring as part of reduced emergency planning role

If the request is granted, the 10-mile evacuation zone surrounding TMI would cease to exist.

6 years ago

Keziah Cameron was appointed director of the office of Victim Services in November. (Abdul R. Sulayman/Philadelphia Tribune)
Philadelphia
Policing

New leader seeks to reform Philly DA’s Victim Services Unit

Keziah Cameron has a big job ahead of her. The North Philadelphia native has been tasked with reforming the Victim Services Unit of Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.

6 years ago

Workers in vests near a crashed FedEx truck after a fatal accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. (NBC Philadelphia)
Pennsylvania
Streets & Roads

5 dead, 60 hospitalized in Pennsylvania Turnpike crash

Five people were killed and about 60 were injured on the Pennsylvania Turnpike early Sunday morning, when a loaded bus went out of control on a hill and rolled over.

6 years ago

The U.S. Coast Guard came to the rescue of a 85-year-old man requiring medical assistance on a cruise ship heading to port in New Jersey Friday night. (U.S. Air National Guard photo)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Coast Guard hoists ailing man from cruise ship en route to N.J.

The U.S. Coast Guard came to the rescue of a 85-year-old man requiring medical assistance on a cruise ship heading to port in New Jersey Friday night. 

6 years ago

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