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The great white shark 'Miss May.' (Image courtesy of OCEARCH)
Down the Shore
Biology
Environment
New Jersey

The great white shark ‘Miss May’ makes holiday week appearance close to N.J. coast

Miss May, a 10-foot, 800-pound sub-adult female white shark, pinged around 12 miles off Cape May, New Jersey early Tuesday evening.

6 years ago

Cheick Diawara speaks during a Stand 4 Peace anti gun-violence rally in Love park (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Philadelphia
Policing
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Two friends touched by Philly graduation party shooting organize Stand 4 Peace

Two friends touched by last month’s shooting at a graduation party in Southwest Philly organized a rally that drew 50 people, including city officials.

6 years ago

Librarian Marion Stokes recorded more than 30 years of television on 70,000 VHS tapes. (Courtesy of Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project)
The Why
History
Media
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The Philly woman who videotaped a million hours of TV

Decades before YouTube, Marion Stokes taped everything on TV — nearly a million hours of it. Was she a hoarder or an archivist?

Air Date: July 3, 2019

Listen 12:32
(Justin Auciello for WHYY)
Down the Shore
Biology
Environment
New Jersey

Fecal bacteria leads to swimming advisories at 3 N.J. beaches

Higher than acceptable fecal bacteria measurements have once again led to the hoisting of swimming advisories at New Jersey beaches. 

6 years ago

Christen Press (left) celebrates after scoring the U.S.'s first goal during the Women's World Cup semifinal against England. The U.S. won 2-1. (Alessandra Tarantino/AP)
NPR
National
Sports

U.S. powers to Women’s World Cup final after defeating England 2-1

The U.S. has now made it to the finals of the last three Women's World Cups

6 years ago

Refinery works watch protestors outside the PES refinery Tuesday. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Business
Energy
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Analysts say Philadelphia refinery, shut down after fire, unlikely to find a willing buyer

More than 1,000 people will be out of work once Philadelphia Energy Solutions' refinery closes its doors this month.

6 years ago

Conversationalists Kameelah Mu'Min Rashad and Emily Zislis share a laugh with WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn during A Conversation on Identity and Belonging hosted at the University of Pennsylvania. (Riley Jackson/Interfaith Philadelphia)
Race & Ethnicity
Religion

True conversations can lead to a true understanding

Through this year, we wanted to live out the call of journalist Krista Tippett to “speak together differently, in order to live together differently.”

6 years ago

Jonathan Jacobs, founder of ETHOS GSFM, used his background in architecture to design his new 1,500-squre-foot flagship location at 339 N. Broad Street (Abdul Sulayman/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Business
Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Tribune

Upscale barbershop grooms not just hair, but a social mission

Jonathan Jacobs is on a mission to improve and elevate the barbering industry.

6 years ago

Seaside Heighs boardwalk (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Annual initiative underway to ensure N.J. boardwalk vendors, game operators are fair

An annual summer inspection of vendors and game operators at New Jersey's boardwalks is underway.

6 years ago

The July Fourth Party on the Parkway (J. Fusco/Visit Philly)
Community Events
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Philly’s July Fourth party will be fenced in this year, for a ‘more open’ experience

You’ll be able to get a beer and roam freely along the Parkway.

6 years ago

Girls 19 years old and under participate in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. Olympic Development Program program on the Schuylkill in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Outdoors
Philadelphia
Sports

Young Olympic hopefuls tackle the Schuylkill with 2028 LA games in mind

Philly is hosting one of six Olympic development camps where young athletes are already preparing for the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.

6 years ago

Listen 4:05
(Justin Auciello for WHYY)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

Treatment plant malfunction forces ocean swimming ban in N.J. town

There's no ocean swimming allowed along a significant stretch of the Wildwood Crest beach after a malfunction at a wastewater treatment facility.

6 years ago

A youth stands Sunday by the border fence that separates Mexico from the U.S., where candles and crosses stand in memory of the father and daughter who died during their journey toward the U.S. (Emilio Espejel/AP)
NPR
Immigration

Border community remembers a father and daughter who drowned crossing the Rio Grande

Residents gathered at vigils in McAllen and Brownsville on Sunday evening to remember the lives of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month-old daughter, Angie Valeria.

6 years ago

A Mosquito device at the East Poplar Playground  (Michaela Winberg/Billy Penn)
Kids
Outdoors
Public Spaces
Billy Penn

‘They must really hate teens’: Backlash grows against Mosquito devices in Philly parks

Councilmember Helen Gym is on a mission to get the “sonic weapons” taken down.

6 years ago

Families from across Philadelphia came to Fairmount Park to participate in the Water Fight Philly event on Sunday, June 30, 2019. (Kriston Jae Bethel for WHYY)
View Finders
Outdoors
Philadelphia

As shootings rise, celebrating life with ‘empowering’ water gun fight in Fairmount Park

About 100 people came out Sunday for a water gun fight in Fairmount Park, hosted by a group that hopes to redefine firearms as shootings rise in Philly.

6 years ago

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