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State police will now be required to make more visits to schools. (AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Pennsylvania
Policing
Public Safety

Pa. state police upping presence in certain schools

New rules will require more frequent visits to schools in areas that don't have their own police departments, and so they rely on state police for coverage.

7 years ago

The logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. (Richard Drew/AP)
Technology
ProPublica

Facebook is letting job advertisers target only men

A review found that 15 employers in the past year, including Uber, have advertised jobs on Facebook exclusively to one sex, with many of the ads playing to stereotypes.

7 years ago

Anthony Torres poses for a photograph at his brother's home in Atco, N.J., after revealing he was the man caught in a viral video shaving on a train. (Matt Rourke/AP)
NPR
Homelessness
Transportation

Man mocked for shaving on train says he was leaving homeless shelter

A fellow rider recorded him and posted the video to Twitter.

7 years ago

A flooded farm stands next to the Lumber River on Monday in this aerial photograph taken after Hurricane Florence hit Lumberton, N.C. (Charles Mostoller/Bloomberg /Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
Environment
Food & Drink
National

Florence engulfs hog farms and chicken houses, thrashing North Carolina agriculture

Farmers across the southeastern part of North Carolina are just starting to report details about the hit they've taken from Hurricane Florence.

7 years ago

Port of Wilmington
Delaware
Economic Development
International

UAE-based Gulftainer signs 50-year lease for Port of Wilmington

As part of the deal, Gulftainer will upgrade facilities and expand the Port of Wilmington, potentially creating hundreds of jobs along the way.

7 years ago

Listen 1:15
There is a push to get a crosswalk or some other safety improvement to the entrance of The Woodlands, which sits across Woodland Avenue from the 40th Street SEPTA trolley portal. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Public Spaces
PlanPhilly

Petition wants to make visiting the dead at Woodlands Cemetery safer for the living

More than 1,000 people have signed a petition calling for street safety improvements along Woodland Avenue.

7 years ago

Derrick Eberhart, whose brother was murdered, sits  on his front porch in Nicetown (Philadelphia Tribune/John Mitchell)
Income Inequality
Policing
Social Justice
Broke in Philly

Breaking poverty: Crime, poverty often linked

Three of the poorest ZIP codes in the city are responsible for almost a third of the city’s homicides since January 2013.

7 years ago

A Senate committee has advanced a measure to give New Jersey towns double credits toward their obligation to ensure adequate housing if they buy foreclosed residential properties, then convert them into affordable housing. (David J. Phillip/AP Photo)
Housing
New Jersey

N.J. trying again on plan to recycle foreclosed homes into affordable housing

Activists say the plan would be a step forward in the state’s slow recovery from the foreclosure crisis.

7 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden and his family join state leaders at the Delaware Welcome Center on I-95 near Newark Monday morning. The welcome center was renamed in the family's honor. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware

Biden name will welcome millions of travelers to Delaware

Delaware continues to honor favorite son Joe Biden. The Delaware welcome center on I-95 is the latest facility to be renamed in honor of the former vice president.

7 years ago

Listen 1:09
African-American leaders are calling for an end to violence in the city. Mel Wells, who runs the same group One Day at a Time, said generations of men are being killed. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

African-American leaders call for cease-fire on Philadelphia streets

Group organizers push for stronger community ties to help bring an end to the rampant gunfire that claims victims almost daily.

7 years ago

Offshore wind turbines are seen in this file image. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, file)
Down the Shore
Economic Development
Energy
Environment
New Jersey
Technology

N.J. begins nation’s largest single-state solicitation of offshore wind projects

New Jersey officials on Monday kicked off the nation's largest single-state solicitation of offshore wind projects.

7 years ago

Members of the Coast Guard Shallow-Water Response team escort utility workers to a flooded substation to inspect transformers in Newport, N.C., on Sunday.
NPR
Environment
Public Safety

Florence death toll rises to 23 as rivers continue to flood in N.C. and S.C.

People in North Carolina and South Carolina are coping with flooding, closed roads and power outages as they assess damage from Hurricane Florence

7 years ago

Melissa Alam is the creator of Fearless Con, a two-day conference that empowers women in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community Events
Philadelphia

Frustrated by ‘unrelatable’ conferences, Philly woman creates her own

I looked at the lineup and it was all men, primarily white men speaking and I was like, 'Why would I attend this conference if I can't even see myself in any of the speakers?'

7 years ago

Listen 2:25
Oyster Creek was New Jersey's first nuclear generation station, opened in 1967. It shut down in September 2018. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Down the Shore
Energy
Environment
New Jersey

Oyster Creek, nation’s oldest nuclear power plant, shuts down Monday

The nation's oldest nuclear power point is shutting down permanently Monday.

7 years ago

Vox photo editor Kainaz Amaria thinks it's time the photojournalism world reckons with what she sees as an industry-wide culture of sexual harassment with roots in a glaring gender imbalance. (Nick Oza/Courtesy of Kainaz Amaria)
NPR
Media
National

Photojournalists are demanding a #MeToo reckoning

Amaria argues that her male-dominated field creates a "toxic culture" that silences women in the profession and has kept a full reckoning from taking place.

7 years ago

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