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Policing

Those Philly police with offensive Facebook posts? Some have a long history of complaints

Several of the officers named in the Facebook database, compiled by a group called the Plain View Project, have been targets of multiple misconduct probes in the past.

6 years ago

Scene from Philadelphia's 30th annual PrideDay on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
LGBTQ
Philadelphia
TV

Philly Pride is ready for its TV debut

On the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Philadelphia’s Pride parade will be taped for a future broadcast.

6 years ago

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Philadelphia Police Department headquarters at 7th and Race streets (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Policing
Technology

NAACP calls for firing Philly police who made offensive social media posts

The Philadelphia NAACP is calling for the city police department to fire officers who are found to have posted racist, violent, or offensive content on social media.

6 years ago

Claire DeMatteis
Delaware
Gender
Policing

Political veteran nominated as first woman to run Delaware prisons

Claire DeMatteis was senior counsel to Joe Biden when he was a U.S. Senator. Now she is Gov. Carney’s nominee to to lead Delaware’s prison system.

6 years ago

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History
Military
Religion
Billy Penn

Philly’s Holocaust Memorial Plaza is ready for its closeup

The Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation, which has been working on the project since 2006, developed an app with free self-guided tours and first-person stories from

6 years ago

Capt. Charles W. Felt (in black tunic in background) training members of the U.S. Army Dental Corps at the 186th General Hospital, Fairford, UK. (Courtesy U.S. Army, National Archives, Washington, DC.)
History
Military

On D-Day a dentist helps a wounded engineer

The fake eye an Army dentist constructed for Capt. Arthur F. Hoffmann became one of the few positive things Hoffman shared with his family about D-Day.

6 years ago

In this June 3, 2019 photo the New York City skyline is in the background of the Raritan Bay as seen from Middletown, N.J.  New Jersey environmental officials are due to decide Wednesday, June 5 on key permits for a nearly $1 billion pipeline that would bring natural gas from Pennsylvania through New Jersey, out into Raritan Bay and into the ocean before reaching New York and Long Island. (Wayne Parry/AP Photo)
Energy
Environment

Firm to reapply for permits to build northeast gas pipeline

An company says it will reapply to build a hotly contested pipeline that would carry natural gas from Pa. through N.J., and under a bay and the ocean to New York.

6 years ago

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Down the Shore
New Jersey
Transportation

N.J. conducting hurricane evacuation drill

New Jersey transportation and emergency agencies are conducting an annual hurricane evacuation drill Thursday.

6 years ago

Members of the Philadelphia Union stand behind members of the new Chester High School soccer team that will start playing this fall. The major league soccer team announced Wednesday that they will support a high school soccer program for the Chester-Upland School District in Delaware County. (P. Kenneth Burns/WHYY)
Sports

High school soccer in Chester returns after 30 years

With help from Philadelphia’s MLS team, a soccer program will return to high schools in the Delaware County district.

6 years ago

A visitor wearing a U.S. military uniform walks past graves at the American cemetary, in Colleville-sur-Mer, western France, in this June 6, 2007 file photo. (Remy de la Mauviniere/AP Photo)
History
International

Memories of Normandy

The invasion of Normandy marks the turning point in WWII when the allies launched a major offensive to drive the German army out of France.

6 years ago

Members of the performance group 'Flaggots' dance at the Philadelphia Pride Parade and Festival. (Branden Eastwood for WHYY)
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June 6 - 12, 2019

Celebrating LGBTQ pride, not-so-classic cars, black music and the annual Odunde Festival

Check out our picks for this week.

6 years ago

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Amber Hikes is the executive director of the Mayor's Office of LGBT Affairs for the City of Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community Events
LGBTQ

Philly liaison to LGBTQ community talks about her worst fear and big goals

Ahead of Philly Pride, Amber Hikes, director of Philadelphia’s Office of LGBT Affairs, talks about her fear of failure and her goal to unite the diverse community.

6 years ago

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Clinging jellyfish (Courtesy of Dr. Paul Bologna‎/Montclair State University)
Down the Shore
Biology
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors

Dangerous clinging jellyfish found in salt pond near South Jersey inlet

State environmental officials are warning the public about dangerous clinging jellyfish that were recently found for the first time in South Jersey.

6 years ago

Philly AIDS Thrift in Queen Village (Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
Business
LGBTQ
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Philly Pride shopping guide: Where to support LGBTQ businesses

Since the city doesn’t keep track, we crowdsourced a map.

6 years ago

Christian Howell (center) is flanked by younger siblings Kaiden and Karima at the African Barbershop on North Market Street in Wilmington. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
Kids

Books in barbershops aims to give Wilmington boys ‘another avenue’

The child literacy initiative that began in New York five years ago is now in Wilmington barbershops. A library official said it aims to show kids that reading is “cool.”

6 years ago

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