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One of the new SEPTA locomotives pulls into the Chestnut Hill station. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Transportation

SEPTA bringing new locomotives online

After passing 500 miles of testing, the new locomotives are expected to be in full service by the end of the year.

7 years ago

An environmental cleanup crew works to remove fuel from a spill in Darby Creek in Tinicum Township, Pennsylvania, near the Philadelphia International Airport. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Sunoco’s stand-in ME2 line leaked gasoline at Darby Creek

7 years ago

Evangelical minister Rob Schenck says change is a part of spirituality:
NPR
Home & Family
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Once militantly anti-abortion, Evangelical minister now lives ‘with regret’

Schenck now sees abortion as a moral and ethical issue that should be resolved by "an individual and his or her conscience" — rather than by legislation.

7 years ago

An executioner, portrayed by Eastern State Penitentiary's Sean Kelly, slices watermelons in half with a guillotine.
Community Events
Criminal Justice
Performing Arts

Marie Antoinette may escape the guillotine, but Philly Bastille celebration meets its end

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner may – or may not – take part in the festivities. He says he does see similarities between France of 1789 and the U.S. of 2018.

7 years ago

The Wall of Names rises at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County, Pennsylvania (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Pennsylvania

Flight 93 Memorial nears completion in Pennsylvania

This final stage is dubbed the Tower of Voices — a 93-foot concrete structure that’ll be adorned with 40 chimes — for each of the passengers and crew members killed

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
National
Philadelphia
Politics

NewsWorks Tonight, July 10, 2018

The national Republican party has effectively disowned its candidate for a South Jersey Congressional seat after new revelations that he ...

Air Date: July 10, 2018

Listen 22:50
By some accounts, almost half of the incarcerated population in the U.S. suffers from mental illness. (Roy Scott/Getty Images/Ikon Images)
NPR
Criminal Justice
Health Care

Behind bars, mentally ill inmates are often punished for their symptoms

By some accounts, nearly half of America's incarcerated population is mentally ill — and journalist Alisa Roth argues that most aren't getting the treatment they need.

7 years ago

Traffic safety advocates form a
PlanPhilly
Public Safety
Transportation
PlanPhilly

Near a Center City Wawa, humans protect a bike lane, to make a larger point

A line, 25 deep, stretched out in front of the Wawa at 22nd and South streets Tuesday morning. They lined up on 22nd Street to form a “human-protected" bike lane.

7 years ago

Ocean Grove beach. (By Jackie from Monmouth County, NJ, USA (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Pennsylvania man drowns in waters off N.J.

In the last week, people have died after being pulled from the ocean off Island Beach State Park, Normandy Beach, and Surf City. 

7 years ago

Philadelphia Eagles' Malcolm Jenkins, (center), gestures during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the Chicago Bears, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2017, in Philadelphia.
Sports

NFL players union files grievance over anthem policy

The NFL Players Association filed a grievance with the league challenging its national anthem policy.

7 years ago

A clinging jellyfish found near Tices Shoal in the Barnegat Bay, a popular boating hangout. (Dr. Paul Bologna)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors

Dozens of dangerous jellyfish found near Barnegat Bay’s Tices Shoal

The dangerous and invasive clinging jellyfish continue to head south along the Barnegat Bay in Ocean County, a marine biologist says.

7 years ago

Delaware State Police
Delaware

Delaware man killed wife, 3 young children in murder-suicide

A man shot his wife and their three children to death, then killed himself, in their Delaware home.

7 years ago

In the distance, construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline at Raystown Lake Recreation Area in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.

Lindsay Lazarski / StateImpact PA
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

‘No wake zone’ for boaters at Raystown Lake will accommodate Mariner East 2 pipeline work

7 years ago

Onlookers in Chiang Rai, Thailand, watch and cheer as ambulances transport some of the rescued schoolboys from a cave where they were trapped for two weeks.
NPR

All 12 boys and their coach are rescued from Thai cave, after 2 weeks

An elite team of Thai Navy SEALs and foreign rescue divers brought out two more boys from a cave near the Thai-Myanmar border

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight July 9, 2018

A federal court upholds New Jersey’s overhaul of its bail system.  A Pennsylvania judge has emerged as a top contender for Preside ...

Air Date: July 9, 2018

Listen 21:27
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