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Kate Spade

Officials: Designer Kate Spade found dead in apartment

Kate Spade, a fashion designer known for her sleek handbags, was found hanged in her Park Avenue apartment Tuesday in an apparent suicide, law enforcement officials said.

7 years ago

Three handguns.
NPR

Gun studies: Permit laws reduce murders; red flag laws cut suicides

In the wake of the Parkland high school massacre, there's been renewed interest in "red flag" laws, which allow courts and police to temporarily remove guns from people percei

7 years ago

The Lowe's home improvement store on North 50th Street in West Philadelphia.
NewsWorks Tonight
Business

One Philly man’s experience spurs Lowe’s to reconsider receipt policy

Wynnefield resident experiences different treatment at a Lowe's in the suburbs and the West Philadelphia location. The latter is considered a 'high-theft' store.

7 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight June 4, 2018

Philadelphia Councilman David Oh introduces a bill to curb “squatting” in Philadelphia.  Two upcoming Supreme Court cases co ...

Air Date: June 4, 2018

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In this March 22, 2017 file photo, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz speaks at the Starbucks annual shareholders meeting
Business

Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz stepping down

Starbucks Corp. says Howard Schultz is stepping down as executive chairman this month of the coffee chain he joined more than 30 years ago.

7 years ago

A Coast Guard file photo of a 47-foot Motor Lifeboat.
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Coast Guard rescues rower on transatlantic fundraising mission

A man rowing across the Atlantic Ocean on a fundraising mission was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard off the New Jersey coast on Monday.

7 years ago

Kid Shelleen's is one of two dozen restaurants in Delaware that have adopted straws optional policies or banned plastic straws altogether.  (Shirley Min/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Delaware
Environment
Food & Drink

The last straw for plastic straws in Delaware

More than two dozen restaurants in Delaware have adopted a “straws by request” policy or are banning them altogether.

7 years ago

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A sports betting room in Delaware. (Steve Ruark/AP, file)
Delaware

Full-scale sports betting no ‘big windfall,’ Delaware casino operators say

Delaware launches its full-scale sports betting Tuesday afternoon, but the additional gambling options are not seen as a cure-all by Delaware casino operators.

7 years ago

A group of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students arrive for a news conference, Monday, June 4, 2018, in Parkland, Fla. A day after graduating from high school, the group of Florida school shooting survivors has announced a multistate bus tour to
Public Safety

Parkland students to make bus tour to register young voters

A day after graduating, a group of Florida high school shooting survivors announced they'll spend their summer crisscrossing the country

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro addresses a reporter's question a news conference Thursday May 10, 2018 in Philadelphia. Shapiro announced that Christann Shyvin Gainey, 30, a nurse, was charged Thursday, in the death of the father of H.R. McMaster, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, after authorities said she failed to give him a series of neurological exams following his fall at a Philadelphia senior care facility. Gainey was charged with involuntary manslaughter, neglect and records tampering in the death of H.R. McMaster Sr. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

Pa. Health Dept. faults senior care facility in death of former Trump adviser’s father

The 141-page report released over the weekend says Herbert R. McMaster Sr.'s fatal fall April 12 was his fifth during a four-day stay at Cathedral Village.

7 years ago

Nine days after the Hurricane Maria struck, Emilú De León and other volunteers opened a kitchen to serve meals to the people of Caguas. The first day, they fed 600, De León sa
NPR
Food & Drink
Income Inequality

Puerto Rico’s push for food independence intertwined with statehood debate

Hurricane Maria has reignited a small movement in Puerto Rico aimed at strengthening the local food system so the island can survive and thrive

7 years ago

A police officer secures the block as investigators survey a demolition site that turned deadly at the corner of Jefferson and Bailey Streets in North Philadelphia on June 04, 2018.  (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Public Safety

1 worker dead after building partially collapses in Philly

Authorities say a contractor died after a North Philadelphia building partially collapsed, trapping him and another worker.

7 years ago

Shazana Goff (left) operates the La Finquita farm stand in July of 2014. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY, file)
Environment

How one urban farm was lost: La Finquita’s finale

It started with a lock and a “No Trespassing” sign. They appeared one day on the fence at Lawrence and Master streets, next to a hand-painted sign reading, “La Finquita,”

7 years ago

Ayanna McNair (left) and Bridget Biddle stop by WHYY to tell their story. McNair is a formerly incarcerated single mother who recently got a licence to start a food truck business. Biddle is an advocate with the Maternity Care Coalition, which helped McNair. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Business
Food & Drink

Pregnant behind bars: West Philly mom says food connection saved her life

With license for food truck, Ayanna McNair hopes to serve her home cooking beyond the kitchen of her home.

7 years ago

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Lola Omolola is the founder of FIN, a private Facebook group with nearly 1.7 million members that has become a support network for women around the globe.
NPR
Gender

One woman’s Facebook success story: A support group for 1.7 Million

Its genesis can be traced to 2014, when nearly 300 girls were kidnapped from a boarding school in Nigeria by the Boko Haram militant group.

7 years ago

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