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Coldest night since the spring ahead at the Jersey Shore

Saturday night will feature the coldest temperatures since the spring at the Jersey Shore, forecasters say. 

7 years ago

New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer and West End Neighborhood House executive director Paul Calistro listen as Bright Spot Farms director Sindhu Siva describes the work needed to grow poinsettias at the New Castle farm. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware
Economic Development

New funds to bolster youth job training in Delaware

The Delaware program is part of Citi Foundation's Pathways to Progress initiative that will devote $100 million to support youth job training nationwide over three years.

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A diverse group of Philadelphians from many parts of the city came together at WHYY to discuss a range of social issues. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
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Openness is secret ingredient in meal shared with strangers

Leon Caldwell, a socially minded real estate developer who was born and raised in West Philadelphia, spends a lot of time thinking about how neighborhoods grow and change.

7 years ago

Attendees stand during a moment of silence during the Rally for Peace and Tree of Life Victims, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, at Point State Park in downtown Pittsburgh. (Alexandra Wimley/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
Pennsylvania
Public Safety

Victims of synagogue shooting remembered in Pittsburgh park

Nearly 2 weeks after a gunman shot to death 11 people inside a Pittsburgh synagogue, their lives were remembered Friday with a moment of silence and rally for peace in a park.

7 years ago

Philadelphia announces its holiday programming during an event in the Mayor's Reception Room at City Hall. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
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Philadelphia

The holidays are nigh in Philadelphia

Philadelphia announces series of events and attractions to celebrate the season.

7 years ago

This undated photo provided by former Fox News correspondent Adam Housley and his wife, actress Tamera Mowry-Housley, shows their niece, Alaina Housley, a Pepperdine University freshman who was among those killed in the Wednesday shooting at the Borderline bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
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National
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‘This is going to be absolutely heart-wrenching’: The Thousand Oaks shooting victims

Wednesday night was a night specifically designed to lure college-age patrons into The Borderline Bar & Grill

7 years ago

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Philadelphia
Technology

Pizza Gutt uses Instagram as shortcut to pizza fame

What started out as a way to destress from a job he hated has become Daniel Gutter's sole way of earning a living. His secret recipe? Instagram.

7 years ago

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Chamarra McCrorie gives Indego's new e-bikes a test ride on Thomas Paine Plaza. (Jim Saksa/WHYY)
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Philly adds electric bikes to Indego fleet

Like Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival, Indego has gone electric, adding 10 pedal-assist bicycles to its bike share fleet.

7 years ago

Dorothy Johnson-Speight, founder of Mothers in Charge, sitting before a painting of her murdered son, Khaliiq Jabbar Johnson. (Bastiaan Slabbers for Keystone Crossroads)
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From grief to greater understanding: One mother’s quest to heal both sides of the criminal justice divide

Dorothy Johnson-Speight still holds the burden of a mother’s pain. ...

7 years ago

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, file)
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Philadelphia
Religion

Philadelphia Archdiocese creates independent program to compensate sex abuse victims

The Philadelphia Archdiocese announced Thursday it is creating a program to compensate victims of clergy ...

7 years ago

Bishop Patricia Ann Curtis Davenport is the first African-American woman to become a bishop of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Pennsylvania
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After historic elevation, new Lutheran bishop reflects on disintegrating barriers

WHYY's Mary Cummings-Jordan talks with Bishop Patricia Davenport about her new position within the Southeastern Pa. Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

7 years ago

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrives at a lecture on Sept. 26 at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. Ginsburg has been hospitalized after falling and fracturing several ribs. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized after fall, fracturing 3 ribs

7 years ago

The 2017 Tweed Ride in Philadelphia Saturday, November 4, 2017. (©2017 Mark Stehle Photography)
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November 7 - 14, 2018

Tweeds and bikes, global films and ‘The Color Purple’

If you love film festivals, you're in luck - this week, there's two.

7 years ago

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People comfort each other outside a bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., where a gunman opened fire and killed 12.
NPR
Public Safety

12 victims killed in shooting at country music bar in Thousand Oaks, California

A shooter killed 12 people and injured several more at a country music bar in Ventura County, Calif., late Wednesday, police said.

7 years ago

The traffic circle, highlighted as a yellow circle, connects southbound I-295 to Route 29 in New Jersey. This is part of the major overhaul of the intersections in the area as they build a new Scudder Falls bridge. (Google Earth image)

New traffic circle connecting I-295 to Route 29 in New Jersey opens Nov. 8

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