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South Seaside Park on Dec. 27, 2010. (Photo: Dominick Solazzo)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

8 years ago, a fierce blizzard paralyzed N.J.

A blizzard pounded the Jersey Shore eight years ago today with tropical storm-force wind gusts and 3 feet of snow in some spots.

8 years ago

Student activists from Parkland, Fla., quickly mobilized after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, becoming a vocal force calling for tighter gun laws. That movement led to mass
NPR
National
Politics
Public Safety

2018 brought a ‘tectonic shift’ in the gun control movement, advocates say

They cite widespread success in passing laws through state legislatures. They're also buoyed by Democratic victories in the midterm elections.

8 years ago

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Down the Shore
New Jersey

4 killed when car slams into tanker truck in Ocean County

New Jersey state police say a crash involving a car and a tanker truck on the Garden State Parkway has left four people dead.

8 years ago

Portraits of Hiram Charles Montier and his wife, Elizabeth Brown Montier, by Franklin R. Street. (Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art)
The Why
History
Home & Family
Pennsylvania
Race & Ethnicity

The Montiers: An American story

Family portraits found under a bed unraveled the story of an African-American family with a rich history and blood ties to the first mayor of Philadelphia.

Air Date: December 26, 2018

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An employee at Grand Traverse Pie Co. in Michigan makes cherry pies. The company has been shipping pies since 1998, when people still had to phone in their orders. (Beryl Striewski/Grand Traverse Pie Co.)
NPR
Food & Drink

Mail-order pies: An expensive slice of nostalgia for which many will pay

Making sure that pies get to their final destinations in one piece isn't easy, and it comes with a cost.

8 years ago

A SEPTA bus travels west on Walnut Street. Route 9 is the worst SEPTA bus route for time performance. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Public Safety
Transportation

SEPTA bus shot in North Philly: No injuries reported

This is the third shooting this month involving a SEPTA bus.

8 years ago

Gritty skates on the ice

Big hits, reporter picks, and what you missed: WHYY News looks back on 2018

In 2018, WHYY reporters also dug into some of the most divisive, wonky, and underreported issues facing the region.

8 years ago

In this May 10, 2018 photo, Ray Angeli gives a tour of the facility next to the greenhouse at NEET center where hemp for research will be grown with a license from the state in Mayfield, Pa. (Jake Danna Stevens/The Times-Tribune via AP)
Environment
Law
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania getting ready for new hemp industry

Newly passed Farm Bill legalizes industrial hemp, paving way for new commodity crop

8 years ago

Visitors to the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse look at holiday decorations as National Park Service employees briefly open the venue before quickly having to close again due to electrical problems, Monday, Dec. 24, 2018, in Washington. Repairs were delayed because of a partial government shutdown. Both sides in the long-running fight over funding President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall appear to have moved toward each other, but a shutdown of one-fourth of the federal government entered Christmas without a clear resolution in sight. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
Politics

An icon of Christmas cheer went dark, some parks close

Federal workers at the agencies affected by the gap in appropriations go unpaid as long as the shutdown lasts.

8 years ago

American volunteers Lilah Katz (far left) and her mother, Sharon Fine (far right), welcomed (top row from left) Fikiri, Onike, Paluki and Bienvenie, and (bottom row from left) Cecil, Oliva and Jeteme. (Courtesy of Sharon Fine)
NPR
Home & Family
Immigration
Religion

After years in refugee camps, a family celebrates its first Christmas in the U.S.

Furaha, her husband, Saidi Roger, 33, and their seven kids have been in the U.S. for three months.

8 years ago

The U.S. Capitol is seen  in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Philadelphia
Politics
Public Spaces

Shutdown generates pain, controversy

What’s open and closed with the government shutdown, and what are Philly-area congressional representatives are saying about it?

8 years ago

Food & Drink

Feast of the Seven Fishes means brisk business for Italian Market seafood stalls

The Feast of the Seven Fishes is a Christmas Eve tradition started more than a century ago by Italian-Americans.

8 years ago

Tony House
Delaware
Homelessness
Housing

Amid controversy, homeless shelter in Wilmington fights to keep offering beds

Residents are worried what will happen to them if the shelter closes. The state doesn't seem to trust the shelter after a fiscal mismanagement investigation.

8 years ago

View Finders
Media
Visual Arts

2018 year in photos: Sweet, sorrowful, triumphal and tragic

From the Eagles' Superbowl victory to the opioid crisis, WHYY photographers bring 2018 into focus.

8 years ago

In this image taken from a Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018 video provided by SNJTODAY.COM, Buena Regional High School wrestler Andrew Johnson gets his hair cut courtside minutes before his match in Buena, N.J. (Michael Frankel/SNJTODAY.COM via AP)
New Jersey
Race & Ethnicity
Sports

Family of South Jersey high school wrestler forced to cut dreadlocks speaks out

Buena Regional High School wrester Andrew Johnson's brother says he believes a white wrestler under similar circumstances probably would not have been put in that situation.

8 years ago

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