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Down the Shore
Military
New Jersey

Rumbles and booms: Joint Base training through the weekend

Residents near Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst might hear “booms” and feel “rumbles” through Sunday.

7 years ago

Standing water sits just behind a row of homes in Wilmington's Southbridge section. The land will soon be turned into a wetland park to prevent flooding. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware
Economic Development
Environment

Wilmington wetland park project meant to ease flooding gets $3M federal grant

The park will play a key role in reducing the floods that inundate Wilmington's Southbridge section.

7 years ago

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Image courtesy of Sea Isle Now/Facebook.
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Blaze rips through several homes in Cape May County

A fire that broke out late Thursday morning in Sea Isle City has consumed several homes.

7 years ago

Law enforcement and protesters clash near the site of the Dakota Access pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D., in November 2016.
(Morton County Sheriff's Department/AP)
NPR
Energy
National

2 years after Standing Rock protests, tensions remain but oil business booms

North Dakota's oil production is growing so fast the state likely will run out of pipeline capacity next year.

7 years ago

R & B singer John Legend performs a song as he tapes a segment for the Christmas day show of the NBC
Things To Do
Community Events
November 29 - December 6, 2018

Bright lights, holiday music and quaint décor beckon

Catch John Legend, Melissa Etheridge, or even Michelle Obama during this week of star-studded events.

7 years ago

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Sergio Cruel found his journalistic calling by helping to find missing persons in Philadelphia.
The Why
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia
Public Safety

Cruel’s intentions: A journalist’s mission to find the missing

Journalist Sergio Cruel is using his investigative skills to do more than turn a story. He's searching for missing persons in Philadelphia.

Air Date: November 29, 2018

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In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2018 photo, Ben Thyng does an exam of a newly arrived living Kemp’s ridley turtle to the ICU at the Audubon Society’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary in Wellfleet, Mass., as cold stunned turtles are brought in off area beaches after several days of below freezing weather. Mass Audubon Director Bob Prescott believes a warming trend in the Gulf of Maine has allowed the turtles to delay migration south. (Steve Heaslip/The Cape Cod Times via AP) (Associated Press)
Down the Shore
Biology
Environment
New Jersey

Marine experts say to keep an eye out for ‘cold-stunned’ sea turtles on N.J. beaches

The cold snap around Thanksgiving that dropped ocean temperatures is putting migrating sea turtles at risk of washing ashore on New Jerse ...

7 years ago

A leak at Croda's Atlas Point plant near the Delaware Memorial Bridge caused massive delays for motorists and left nearby residents worried about the potential threat to their health. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware
Environment

Incorrect gasket blamed for toxic gas leak at Delaware facility

An incorrect gasket failed Sunday afternoon at Croda’s Atlas Point facility near New Castle, Delaware causing toxic, highly flammable ethylene oxide to leak.

7 years ago

Trenton state Capitol building. (WHYY file photo)
New Jersey
Politics

Democrat-led panel OKs redistricting amendment in New Jersey

If approved, the new legislative redistricting scheme would lead to the creation of districts that would last a decade, until the next federal census in 2030.

7 years ago

A leak at Croda's Atlas Point plant near the Delaware Memorial Bridge caused massive delays for motorists and left nearby residents worried about the potential threat to their health. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware

Croda gas leak highlights risks to poorer Delaware communities

Some nearby residents were not notified of the gas leak.

7 years ago

Photo courtesy of Brigantine PBA.
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Cops rescue 200 pound dog found clinging onto bay bulkhead

A large dog found in a chilly back bay in Atlantic County on Monday is alive thanks to the efforts of police officers and a boat recovery company staffer.

7 years ago

Kensington Avenue on Friday, November 23, 2018. (Solomon Jones for WHYY)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Addiction
Philadelphia

Rethinking the Kensington drug crisis

I went to Kensington on Black Friday and saw the devastation of the heroin crisis.

7 years ago

This photo provided by Lashrecse Aird shows traffic jam and an electric message sign indicating,
Delaware
Public Safety
Travel

Company promising to get to bottom of chemical leak that closed Delaware Memorial Bridge Sunday

The bridge was closed following a leak of ethylene oxide from Croda’s Atlas Point manufacturing facility which sits just to the south of the New Jersey-bound span. The leak ha

7 years ago

George Lakey takes a turn at soloing in the
Music
Religion

A home-grown ‘Messiah’ sing-along marks 50 years in Philly

For 50 years, George Lakey has been organizing sing-alongs of George Frideric Handel's iconic oratorio, a beloved part of the holiday soundtrack.

7 years ago

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File photo of minor tidal flooding in Seaside Park. (Courtesy of Dominick Solazzo)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

NWS: Potentially coastal, inland flooding Monday

Another round of flooding is likely Monday as a storm system moves through the New Jersey region, forecasters say. 

7 years ago

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