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Since 2005, Ellyn Jo Waller of Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church in Philadelphia has been working to help those caught up in human trafficking.

Mourners began gathering Monday in downtown LA to say farewell to Kobe and Gianna Bryant at the Staples Center, hours before Bryant's memorial service was scheduled to start.

NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA’s early space missions and was portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures" has died.

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.

Michael Tafolla says the books he read in prison helped him understand how he had landed there in the first place.

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.