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Delaware receivee a $2.6 million grant award from the U.S. Department of Transportation to purchase or lease zero-emission and low-emission transit buses. (Zoë Read/WHYY)
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Delaware officials want to make riding the bus ‘sexy’ with new electric fleet

Delaware aims to reduce carbon emissions by increasing its fleet of electric buses with help from a new federal grant.

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In this June 25, 2016, file photo, Cub Scouts watch a race during the Second Annual World Championship Pinewood Derby in New York's Times Square. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
Public Safety

Boy Scouts of America faces new sex abuse allegations, Pa. lawsuit reveals

A Pa. man filed suit in Philadelphia against the Boy Scouts of America, alleging sexual abuse. It may be the first of hundreds of lawsuits to come nationwide.

7 years ago

The 25th Street bay beach in Barnegat Light. (Google image)
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For third straight week, N.J. bay beach under advisory due to excessive fecal bacteria

For the third consecutive week, a Barnegat Bay beach in northern Long Beach Island is under a swimming advisory issued Tuesday afternoon.

7 years ago

A scene from the 2019 BlackStar Film Festival Best Feature Narrative Award winner 'Selah and the Spades,' directed by Tayarisha Poe (Provided)
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Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
The Philadelphia Tribune

BlackStar Film Fest 2019 wraps up and announces awardees

The 2019 BlackStar Film Festival, held in various venues throughout the city, recently concluded, and award winners at the prestigious cinema showcase have been announced.

7 years ago

Orb weaver spider at Spring Garden Station. (Note: Dramatization. Not actual size.) (Max Marin/Billy Penn illustration)
Outdoors
Philadelphia
Transportation
Billy Penn

Terrifying orb-weaver spiders have returned to the Spring Garden El stop

Upside: Experts say they’re not harmful to humans.

7 years ago

Some of the trash on Alisha Ebling's block. (Alisha Ebling for Billy Penn)
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

I love Philadelphia, but I might leave because of trash

The litter piles on Alisha Ebling’s North Philly street are out of control.

7 years ago

Grand opening of the SEAMAAC Computer Literacy Lab, Thursday Nov. 3, 2016, inside the SEAMAAC Community Outreach Office in South Philadelphia.  (Joseph Kaczmarek/Comcast)
K-12
Technology
Broke in Philly

Comcast expands low-cost internet, along with learning programs that actually work

The media giant gave out $1 million for digital literacy workshops in Philly last year.

7 years ago

Members of the group Human Rights Coalition speak at a rally Friday, Aug. 2, 2019 at Department of Corrections headquarters in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County. (Brett Sholtis/WITF)
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
PA Post

Pa. prison reform group calls for end to ‘long-term’ solitary confinement

Human Rights Coalition is pushing for the passage of a bill that would limit how long a person can be held in solitary confinement.

7 years ago

Toni Morrison
NPR
Books

Toni Morrison, whose soaring novels were rooted in black lives, dies at 88

Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, according to her publisher Penguin Random House.

7 years ago

A gate keeps off-road drivers away from the Jemima Mount site
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors
NJ Spotlight

Off-road drivers still battling conservationists over access to Pinelands

It's been three years since the DEP scrapped its Motorized Access Plan that would have sharply reduced the number of Pinelands roads and trails that could be legally used.

7 years ago

Chester Made Artistic Director Devon Walls leads the crowd in a robust song as Chester Made workshop leader Sistah Mafalda accompanies with African drumming during the Chester Made and Mandela Washington Fellowship Exchange 2019. (Greg Irvin)
Changing Communities
Performing Arts
Visual Arts

Using art to transform a community

Chester has been written off by people more times than anyone would care to count. Except for the people who call Chester home. For us, we see promise where others see peril.

7 years ago

Vinasia Miles, left, co-founder of For(bes) The Culture, and Rashaad Lambert, right, founder, of For(bes) The Culture at the Forbes Jersey City headquarters. (Photo by Ruth Umoh)
Business
Changing Communities
Race & Ethnicity

Network for young professionals of color founded by Philly natives

Rashaad Lambert and Vinasia Miles co-founded For(bes) The Culture as a way to connect young professionals of color. The network now has more than 3,000 global members.

7 years ago

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An archived screenshot of 8chan, an online message board that shooters have used to post messages before their attacks, describes itself as 'the darkest reaches of the Internet.' (Wayback Machine/Screenshot by NPR)
NPR
Public Safety
Technology

‘Uniquely lawless’: Security firm drops 8chan website following El Paso shooting

A web security company is dropping its protections for 8chan.

7 years ago

Sen. Darius Brown, Savannah Shepherd and others read the words on The Lynching of George White Historical Marker just minutes after it was unveiled at Greenbank Park on June 23. (Scott Goss/Delaware Senate Majority Caucus)
Delaware
History
Race & Ethnicity

Delaware teen behind historical marker for lynching victim calls on thief to come forward

A historic marker dedicated to Del.’s only confirmed lynching victim was stolen last week. The teen behind the sign says she wants to talk to the thief.

7 years ago

The 1900 block of North Gratz Street in North Philadelphia, home of the most ticketed sidewalks in the city (Max Marin/Billy Penn)
Government Accountability
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Tickets for trashy sidewalks are up 300%. It hasn’t fixed Philly’s litter problem.

More than half the violation notices issued by the city end up in the rubbish pile.

7 years ago

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