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New Jersey Officials blame high lead levels in Bordentown on old homes, skewed testing

Unsafe levels of lead have been detected in the water supply for Bordentown in South Jersey, which supplies drinking water to about 16,000 residents.

7 years ago

Local musical acts Waxahatchee and Kingsley Ibeneche will perform at this weekend's Philly Music Fest (Molly Matalon / provided)
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September 27 - October 4, 2018

Philly Music Fest, Fashion Week, Cider in Fairmount Park’s Historic Houses, and more events this week

Homegrown talent is on the menu this week and the selections are particularly tasty.

7 years ago

Volunteers teach young kids to play chess at the After School Activities Fair at Francis Myers Reaction Center in Southwest Philly on September 21, 2018. (Taylor Allen/WHYY)
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In an ‘out-of-school-time desert,’ organizers connect kids to opportunities

Lisa Hall never did any extracurriculars while in school. She wants to change that for her two young children.

7 years ago

Women and allies gathered in Center City Philadelphia as part of a national walkout to show support for Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez, two women who claim Supreme Court Judge nominee Brett Kavanaugh assaulted them. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Gender

During national walkout, Philly survivors of sexual violence show solidarity

The allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is the latest scandal to invoke the #MeToo movement.

7 years ago

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Students participate in a CVS Pharmacy technician apprenticeship program at Philadelphia Job Corps. The program is supported by federal training dollars (Courtesy of Philadelphia Works)
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Breaking Poverty: A need to create access to jobs, training

Positive male influences were hard to come by in Nyhein Webb’s Southwest Philadelphia neighborhood.

7 years ago

30th Street Station (File: Catalina Jaramillo/WHYY)
Public Safety

7-year-old boy dies in fall from moving subway car

Police say a 7-year-old boy who was selling candy on a Philadelphia train with his brother fell between two moving subway cars and died.< ...

7 years ago

A kayaker died Tuesday in Brandywine Creek near the North Market Street Bridge, just outside downtown Wilmington. (Google Maps)
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Police identify 54-year kayaker who died in Brandywine

Update: September 24, 2018  The kayaker who drowned has been identified by police as 54-year-old James Battan. ...

7 years ago

New Jersey Turnpike Authority image.
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New Jersey
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End of an era: Garden State Parkway coin booth phase-out begins

Crews this week will begin removing automatic coin machines from Garden State Parkway mainline barrier toll plazas, officials say.

7 years ago

Michel, joined on the couch by longtime pet Blade and service dog Lizzy, says at least three male service members assaulted or molested her between 1990 and 2005. (Claire Harbage/NPR)
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Behavioral Health

Veterans struggling after sexual assault increasingly turn to service dogs

Service dog providers are seeing an influx of applications from veterans who have experienced sexual trauma while in the military.

7 years ago

People visit a makeshift memorial for victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas in October 2017. Fifty-eight crosses were planted in front of the sign to commemorate each of the people killed in the attack. (John Locher/AP)
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One year after the Las Vegas shooting, 2 survivors remember

A year on the city is still healing.

7 years ago

A stock image of a Portuguese Man-O-War. (Shutterstock photo)
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Another Portuguese man-of-war influx on Shore beaches likely due to Hurricane Florence

Hurricane Florence, responsible for an historic deluge over the Carolinas and spurring catastrophic flooding, is likely to blame for another Portuguese man-of-war influx.

7 years ago

A Philadelphia refinery (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Environment
Philadelphia

PGW seeks approval for $60 million liquefied natural gas plant in Southwest Philadelphia

The $60 million project could produce 120,000 gallons of liquified natural gas a day.

7 years ago

Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh during the second day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Kids
National
Public Safety

How to talk to young people about the Kavanaugh story

In the age of #MeToo, experts say parents are the primary educators about consent, and the current debate offers a teachable moment.

7 years ago

FILE - In this April 1991 file photo, architect Robert Venturi poses in his office in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia, with a model of a new hall for the Philadelphia Orchestra in background. Venturi, who turned austere modern design on its ear, ushering in postmodern complexity with the dictum
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Architecture & Design
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Remembering Robert Venturi, Philadelphia architect who gave ‘more’

Robert Venturi, one of the most influential design minds of the 20th century, passed away on Tuesday, September 18 at the age of 93, after battling Alzheimer’s disease.

7 years ago

Image courtesy of Sahl's farm.
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New Jersey
Outdoors

Shore area farm carves out ‘Philly Special’ corn maze to honor Eagles

A southern New Jersey family farm is showing its devotion for Philadelphia through its corn maze. ...

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