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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)
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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

Dylan Elchin is seen as a child in this photograph
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Pennsylvania
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Dylan Elchin was 8 years old when the war in Afghanistan began. He was eager to serve.

His death is still setting in for his family and community in western Pennsylvania

8 years ago

Youth pastor Kyle Smith of First Assembly of God Paradise reads from the Bible on his phone because his copy of the book burned in the Camp Fire. His congregation is one of several now worshiping with congregations in Chico.
(Polly Stryker/KQED)
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‘Blessings come in’ as churches take in refugee congregations after the Camp Fire

Chico, Calif. has become a safe haven, not just for those burned-out individuals, but for several religious congregations, too.

8 years ago

A photograph by Hugh Mangum from Photos Day or Night: The Archive of HughMangum, by Sarah Stacke with texts by Maurice Wallace and Martha Sumler, Hugh Mangum's granddaughter. (Courtesy of Hugh Mangum Photographs, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)
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History

Photos day or night: How one photographer documented the segregated South

As a businessman who needed to support his family, photographer Hugh Mangum didn't discriminate between clientele.

8 years ago

Mary Thode, of Chittenden, Vt., hand decorates hundreds of cookies every year for Christmas. (Nina Keck/Vermont Public Radio)
NPR
Food & Drink
National

When ‘cookiers’ take holiday cookie decorating to a whole new level

A growing number of creative bakers, known as 'cookiers,' are taking their art to a whole new level this holiday season.

8 years ago

Residents inspect a house damaged by a tsunami, in Carita, Indonesia, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. The tsunami apparently caused by the eruption of an island volcano killed a number of people around Indonesia's Sunda Strait, sending a wall of water crashing some 65 feet (20 meters) inland and sweeping away hundreds of houses including hotels, the government and witnesses said. (AP Photo)
Environment
International

Tsunami set off by volcanic eruption kills 222 in Indonesia

More than 800 people were injured and dozens more missing after the tsunami hit around the Sunda Strait.

8 years ago

MarkWest's Houston gas processing plant in Washington County, Pa. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Pennsylvania
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StateImpact Pennsylvania

Man injured in Pa. gas plant blast dies

The blast happened December 13 at MarkWest’s Houston Processing and Fractionation Facility in Chartiers Township.

8 years ago

(WHYY, file)
Delaware
Public Safety

Police: Large fight, broken glass, falling sign caused shoppers to flee Christiana Mall

What some Christiana Mall employees and shoppers thought were gunshots Friday night was really glass breaking and a sign falling, Delaware State Police said.

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

ACLU: N.J. wrestling incident isn’t about hair, but rather about race

A New Jersey high school wrestler had his dreadlocks cut off minutes before his match after a referee told him to lose the hairstyle or forfeit his bout.

8 years ago

Police responding to reports of shots fired at Christiana Mall in Delaware on Friday evening, December 21 2018 (John Jankowski for WHYY)
Delaware
Public Safety

Stampede from Christiana Mall after reports of gunfire; police find no evidence of shooting

Shoppers stampeded out of Christiana Mall after reports of gunshots inside. Police said they found no evidence that shots were fired and no injuries were reported.

8 years ago

Pope Francis told a gathering of cardinals that priests who break their vows by sexually abusing children are similar to Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus Christ. (Vatican Pool/Getty Images)
NPR
International
Religion

Pope Francis tells abusive priests, bishops to turn themselves in

Pope Francis is urging predator priests to turn themselves in "to human justice, and prepare for divine justice," devoting part of his Christmas message to the abuse scandals

8 years ago

Steve Williams listens to the names of 270 homeless who died in Philadelphia Thursday evening at Arch Street United Methodist Church.
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Homelessness
Philadelphia

Homeless memorial service marks 270 lives lost in 2018

Philadelphians, some formerly and currently homeless, attend a Homeless Memorial Day Service at Arch Street United Methodist Church Thursday evening.

8 years ago

Construction takes place in December 2017 at the site of Shell's ethane cracker plant in Beaver County. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

DEP approves ethane pipeline to Shell’s cracker in Beaver County

Shell won state approval Thursday on a pair of permits for the pipeline that will feed ethane to its $6 billion chemical plant in Beaver County.

8 years ago

Participants in a masculinity workshop discuss a reading at Lutheran Settlement House on Sunday, October 28, 2018. (Kriston Jae Bethel for WHYY)
Gender
Philadelphia

Philly men redefining masculinity in #MeToo era

The groups look deeper at problems in male culture that contribute to sexual harassment and violence.

8 years ago

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In this file photo, Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, use a makeshift footbridge as they move with their belongings after their camp was inundated with rainwater near Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017.  (Dar Yasin/AP Photo)
NPR
International

Is genocide predictable? Researchers say absolutely

Since 2014, the Holocaust Museum and scholars from Dartmouth have mapped the conditions that precede a genocide.

8 years ago

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