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NewsWorks Tonight April 30, 2018

Delaware passes groundbreaking gun control legislation.  SEPTA ends token sales.  Philadelphia schools implement new trauma therapy pro ...

Air Date: April 30, 2018

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On the last day of the PPA's amnesty program to pay outstanding tickets without a fine, people line up around the block to pay up. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Motorists rush to beat deadline for Philly parking amnesty program

Hundreds lined up Monday outside the Philadelphia Parking Authority's violations office hoping to have old tickets expunged.

7 years ago

The elaborate costumes of the annual Carnaval de Puebla draw comparisons to the Mummers.
View Finders
Immigration
Race & Ethnicity

Philadelphia’s Carnaval de Puebla makes a grand return

In a flurry of colors and feathers, Philadelphia's Carnaval de Puebla returned to Washington Avenue for a 12th year on Sunday.

7 years ago

The Continental wildfire burning along the Berkeley/Beachwood border on April 24, 2014. (Photo: JSHN contributor Jennifer Miller‎)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

Fires that spark Monday could quickly get out of control

Any fires that develop Monday could quickly get out of control and become difficult to contain at most of the Jersey Shore, forecasters say. 

7 years ago

(Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Transportation

SEPTA Key costs balloon as agency fixes smartcard snafus

The 70 % price jump comes along with a three-year delay on the project's finish date

7 years ago

Kyle Carney, head brewer, Tess Hart, and Bill Popwell co-founded Triple Bottom Brewery, which will be located in the city’s Spring Garden neighborhood. (Provided)
Business
Philadelphia
Social Justice

In Spring Garden, trio plan to serve up social justice along with craft beer

Triple Bottom Brewing Company intends to hire workers whose criminal pasts have made it hard to land a job.

7 years ago

A Central American child who is traveling with a caravan of migrants, peers at the border wall from a bus carrying the group to a gathering of migrants living on both sides of the border, in Tijuana, Mexico, on April 29. (AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik)

US says crossing is full before caravan tries to seek asylum

Shortly before the migrants were expected to arrive, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said San Diego's San Ysidro crossing would not immediately be able to handle more asylu

7 years ago

The suspect in a van attack in Toronto that killed 10 people declared an
NPR

What’s an ‘incel’? The online community behind the Toronto van attack

The suspect in the attack was quickly linked to an online community of trolls and violent misogynists who call themselves "incels", which stands for "involuntary celibate."

7 years ago

A Coast Guard aircrew medevacs an ailing man from a cruise ship about 51 miles east of Ocean City, New Jersey, Friday, April 27, 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard video by Air Station Atlantic City/Released)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Coast Guard hoists man from cruise ship off N.J.

The U.S. Coast Guard came to the rescue of a 71-year-old man who fell ill on a cruise ship off the New Jersey coast early Friday evening. 

7 years ago

A U.S. Army team transfers the remains of Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright, 29, of Lyons, Ga., at Dover Air Force Base, Del., on Oct. 5. Wright was one of four U.S. troops killed in an ambush in Niger.
Staff Sgt. Aaron J. Jenne/U.S. Air Force via AP
NPR

The military doesn’t advertise it, but U.S. troops are all over Africa

When U.S. troops were ambushed in Niger last October, the widespread reaction was surprise: The U.S. has military forces in Niger? What are they doing there?

7 years ago

Image courtesy of the New Jersey Office of Attorney General.
Down the Shore
New Jersey

3 more charged with Sandy fraud

State authorities have charged 112 people for allegedly engaging in this type of fraud since March 2014.

7 years ago

Kevin Young's 2012 essay collection The Grey Album: On The Blackness Of Blackness was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. (Melanie Dunea/CPi)
NPR
Books
History
Poetry
Race & Ethnicity

Filtering American history through a ‘Brown’ lens

Young's new book, Brown, is colored by memories from his family and childhood, United States history, and black culture.

7 years ago

The engine on a Southwest Airlines plane is inspected as it sits on the runway at the Philadelphia International Airport after it made an emergency landing in Philadelphia, Tuesday, April 17, 2018. (Amanda Bourman via AP)

Passenger sues Southwest Airlines over exploding engine

A passenger who says she's been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder since an engine exploded on a Southwest flight is suing the airline and the engine manufacturer

7 years ago

Myia Hurst in her Roxborough home. (Photo courtesy of Philadelphia Housing Authority)
PlanPhilly
Housing
Income Inequality
Philadelphia

Want to move to a better neighborhood? In Philly, help is on the way.

As of this month, families will be able to be able to use vouchers that can be stretched to cover higher rent in select deemed higher opportunity zones by the PHA.

7 years ago

Subaru of America rolls out vintage cars to celebrate the grand opening of its headquarters in Camden.
NewsWorks Tonight
Business
New Jersey

Subaru opens its doors in Camden, thanks to generous N.J. tax break

Camden boosters say the tax subsidies are helping bring about a renaissance that will improve residents' lives. Critics call state incentives 'corporate welfare.'

7 years ago

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