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Theater manager calls cops on black couple retrieving kids
A black family says a Philadelphia movie theater manager called police when they tried to retrieve their children from a theater after getting a refund.
7 years ago
Veterans’ poems address psychic wounds of Vietnam
Vietnam vets gather in Center City to share contributions to a new anthology of poetry about the scars of war.
7 years ago
Listen 6:56Waiting for sight beyond color
The rash of videotaped incidents in which white people have called police on black people for trivial reasons has reached fever pitch.
7 years ago
Kenney visits Northeast Philly, chats with immigrant entrepreneurs
The mayor's tour was part of an effort to recognize the growing contributions immigrants and their businesses make in that part of Philadelphia.
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Pennsylvania’s population quickly becoming older, slowly more diverse
Following national trends, Pennsylvania’s population is getting older and slowly becoming more diverse ...
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Korean War vets gather in Philadelphia to remember ‘Forgotten War’
More than 5 million soldiers and civilians died during the conflict, including more than 600 from the Philadelphia region.
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36,000 feet in the air, flight attendants and passengers say ‘me, too’
About 1 in 5 flight attendants say they have witnessed a passenger being sexually assaulted or had an assault reported to them.
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A Philadelphia judge has sentenced two brothers to life in prison without parole for fatally shooting a police officer in 2015. Two Cong ...
Air Date: June 25, 2018
Listen 17:01Designing a movement: The rainbow flag turns 40
The rainbow flag — the icon of the LGBTQ movement for 40 years — comes to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Federal help sought after rainy spring ruins Delaware corn crop, other vegetables
Some parts of Delaware got nearly half of the annual average rainfall total within three months.
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Mourners: Black teen killed by police more than a hashtag
Funeral services were held on Monday for a teenager shot and killed by police when he fled a traffic stop near Pittsburgh last week.
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While new technologies have allowed farms to produce more milk, fewer people are consuming it, causing milk prices to plummet and creating a surplus that often ends up wasted.
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Listen 5:06Pilot flees after illegally landing plane on N.J. Coast Guard beach
Authorities are searching for the pilot of a single-engine red plane that illegally landed on a Coast Guard beach in New Jersey.
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A year after ICE arrests at Chesco mushroom farm, how many were actually deported?
Attorneys say arrests at or near workplaces are becoming more common in Pennsylvania, as the U.S. ramps enforcement of immigration laws.
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Merging N.J. towns could move beyond glacierlike pace with government support
One proposal calls for forcing towns with fewer than 5,000 residents to merge with a neighboring one.
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