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A homemade sign hangs on the fence surrounded Paradise Elementary School. The school was destroyed by the fire and the rubble is now being bulldozed and cleaned up.
(Michelle Wiley/KQED)
NPR
Environment
National

6 months after Paradise burned, trauma endures for kids and adults

Mental health specialists working in the area of the deadly Camp Fire are seeing a second wave of trauma from survivors. But counseling services are in short supply.

6 years ago

Janie Dumbleton was among the passengers of Amtrak 188 on May 12, 2015, when it derailed in Philadelphia, killing eight. She's shown here at High Street on Hudson, a restaurant in New York owned by another survivor of the crash, Eli Kulp. (Courtesy of Janie Dumbleton)
NPR
Mental Health
National
Public Safety

How a shirt from Target helped a survivor of deadly Amtrak crash heal

On May 12, 2015, Amtrak Train 188 rounded a corner at 106 miles per hour — more than double the posted speed limit — and derailed in Philadelphia.

6 years ago

HUD Secretary Ben Carson is portraying the proposed change as a way to help low-income Americans who are in need of housing assistance. (Shannon Finney/Getty Images)
NPR
Housing
Kids
Politics

Proposed rule could evict 55,000 children from subsidized housing

Tens of thousands of poor children — all of them American citizens or legal residents — could lose their housing under a new rule proposed Friday by the Trump administration.

6 years ago

An Atlantic City Rail Line train to 30th Street Station in Philadelphia arrives in Lindenwold, N.J. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
New Jersey
Transportation

NJ Transit rail service resumes in Atlantic City, Princeton

Morning commuters on the Atlantic City line will five trains to choose from, but riders will lose a late-night option.

6 years ago

A group of doctors, lawers, friends, and family gather at the home of Marissa Perrone and Joe Piscitello, where they host the Friends of Safehouse event on Friday, May 10, 2019. (Natalie Piserchio for WHYY)
Addiction
Philadelphia

Safehouse supporters huddle to work on messaging, sway public opinion

Kensington residents vocally oppose Safehouse’s planned site in the neighborhood. Some supporters aim to help with messaging, to get more people on board.

6 years ago

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Adam Pulchino a West Philly resident (right) was concerned their “reverse chariot” wouldn’t make it through the mud. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Philadelphia

13th annual Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby puts city’s artists on parade

Philadelphia’s cycling creatives compete in a community parade for best costumes and best breakdown through the neighborhood.

6 years ago

United States Military Academy at West Point is graduating its largest class of black women (Courtesy Hallie Pound)
Gender
Military
Race & Ethnicity
The Philadelphia Tribune

West Point graduates largest class of black women

Thirty-two black women will graduate from the U.S. Academy at West Point later this month — the largest class of Black women in the school’s history.

6 years ago

Fiorella's 1901 brass National Cash Register has gone missing (Instagram/@marcvetri)
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Antique register stolen from Fiorella’s Sausage returned, Vetri thanks social network

The register has been recovered. According to Vetri on Instagram, it was found by Dennis Boyce Karlie and Brian Lawlor at an antique shop.

6 years ago

Protestors called for Representative Brian Sims to resign outside the Planned Parenthood Clinic on Locust Street in Center City Friday morning.(Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health Care
Philadelphia
Politics

Hundreds rally outside Philly Planned Parenthood, call for Sims’ resignation

State Rep. Brian Sims self-recorded two videos as he harassed anti-abortion demonstrators outside a Planned Parenthood facility in Center City. Backlash has been swift.

6 years ago

A 57-year-old SEPTA Regional Rail conductor was shot Friday afternoon on the Chestnut Hill West line. (NBC 10)
NBC10

SEPTA Regional Rail conductor shot, suspect flees

The shooting happened around 3:30 p.m. on the Chestnut Hill West line in West Mount Airy, SEPTA confirmed.

6 years ago

(Public domain image)
Down the Shore
New Jersey
Outdoors

N.J. surfers rescue wayward deer

A group of surfers rescued a deer from the ocean off a Monmouth County beach Tuesday.

6 years ago

Jim Koch and Sam Calagione with their flagship beers (Courtesy Boston Beer)
Business
Delaware
Food & Drink
Billy Penn

How Philly fave Dogfish Head sold itself to the Boston beer giant behind Sam Adams

In one of the most momentous business deals ever in American craft brewing, Dogfish Head and Boston Beer on Thursday announced a merger valued at $300 million.

6 years ago

The Linc, in all its glory (Gloria Bell/Flickr Creative Commons)
Philadelphia
Sports
Billy Penn

13 more years of the Linc! How the Eagles stadium got its name, and where the money goes

Want your company’s logo emblazoned on the Eagles stadium? Pay enough for naming rights and you can make it happen.

6 years ago

Groundwater must be treated if the water is tested to have over 70PPT of PFAS contamination. The water from Well 10 was last tested to have 251PPT. Well 10 is one of four wells in Warminster to have a water treatment system. After the water is treated, the tests come back with undetecable amounts of PFAS, and is stored in large storage tanks before it goes through the township distribution system and into the homes of residents. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Infrastructure
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Providing PFAS-free water to customers in Warminster, Horsham comes at a price

Water authorities in Warminster and Horsham have found ways to provide untainted supplies to their customers, but doing so has cost millions of dollars.

6 years ago

This July 16, 2013 file photo shows a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.  (Ben Margot/AP Photo, File)
Technology

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes: Time to break up company

In a New York Times opinion piece, Hughes called Zuckerberg's power "unprecedented and un-American."

6 years ago

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