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Celestial Art Stars and Galaxies in Outer Space Showing the Beauty of Space exploration. Planet Texture furnished by NASA ( masoud rezaipoor/BigStock)
New Jersey
Space

UFO spotters meet up at annual MUFON summit in New Jersey

The Mutual UFO Network boasts more than 500 UFO field investigators worldwide.

8 years ago

How residents think State College’s growth is changing the community
Keystone Crossroads
Changing Communities
Pennsylvania

For better or worse, State College’s growth is changing the community

Home to Penn State University’s main campus, State College and the larger Centre County area have been steadily growing in terms of population and economy.

8 years ago

Bufus Outlaw, 93, (right) and Theodore Jackson, 83, hang out in Outlaw's garage in Gray's Ferry. Although they weren't alive for the 1918 riots, they have seen the results ripple through their neighborhood to the present.
NewsWorks Tonight
History
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

A 1918 ‘race war’ and its ties to Philadelphia’s present

Stop and frisk. Changing demographics. A fishy police shooting. Inside a 1918 race riot in Grays Ferry and its parallels to the present.

8 years ago

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New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Media
New Jersey
Race & Ethnicity

Suspended N.J. radio hosts apologize for calling state attorney general ‘turban man’

A New Jersey radio station has taken two hosts off the air after they called the state’s attorney general, a practicing Sikh, “turban man.”

8 years ago

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All day, unmarked white vans and chartered buses carrying the migrant children released from shelters across the country roll into the parking lot of the Port Isabel Detention Center in south Texas. (David J. Phillip/AP)
NPR
Government Accountability
Immigration
National

Under deadline, government scrambles to reunite migrant families

The U.S. government is racing to meet Thursday's court-ordered deadline.

8 years ago

A new “SteelStacks” sign adorns the old Bethlehem Steel Corp. blast furnaces. Behind the sign is a sparkling new complex with restaurants, a movie theatre and a large concert venue. (Jason Margolis/PRI)
NewsWorks Tonight
Business
Pennsylvania
PRI's The World

A Pennsylvania steel town reinvents itself with a future beyond steel

How does an industrial city reinvent itself when its main industry disappears?

8 years ago

Daymar Rosser started at the Work to Ride program when he was 5, eventually playing polo for and graduating from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Outdoors

From mucking stalls to riding tall, Philly kids Work to Ride

"Other than the fact that you’re working with 5,000- to 7,000-pound animals, there’s not really a whole lot of trouble to get into here."

8 years ago

Listen 5:07
Ana Marrero, Milagros Soto, and Pablo Cuevas catching a cool breeze on the stoop of their home in Hunting Park. (Catalina Jaramillo/WHYY News)
PlanPhilly
Environment
PlanPhilly

Inside Philadelphia’s inequitable, deadly heat

According to Philadelphia’s heat-vulnerability index, Hunting Park is one of the hottest neighborhoods in the city, and one of the most vulnerable to heat's negative effects.

8 years ago

Philadelphia Phillies' Odubel Herrera, center, scores past Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Austin Barnes, left, on a three-run triple by Carlos Santana during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in Philadelphia. At right is umpire Adam Hamari. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Sports

Phillies score walk-off win in wee hours of the morning

At 1:14 a.m. this morning, the Philadelphia Phillies beat out the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-4, finishing off a nearly six-hour, 16 inning game that saw 18 different pitchers.

8 years ago

Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel

Racial slur incident triggers sensitivity training at Sheraton Hotel in Philly

The slur appeared to be written at the top of a folio for one of the attendees, and it was written as an abbreviation for the convention by one of the hotel’s employees.

8 years ago

Residents listen to a panel of experts speaking about water contamination around two former military bases. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Environment
Pennsylvania

EPA hosts marathon meeting on contaminated water supplies in Bucks, Montco

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn talks with investigative environmental reporter Kyle Bagenstose about the EPA hearing on water issues in Bucks and Montgomery counties.

8 years ago

Listen 6:09
Keyana Lane, 24, (foreground) and Dyrek Davis, 20, learn the art of historic preservation while restoring the deteriorating masonry at Eastern State Penitentiary.
Architecture & Design
History
Philadelphia

Young masons breathe new life into work of preserving Eastern State Penitentiary

Working with small trowels and brushes, the Philadelphia volunteers are restoring the mortar with a mix of lime and sand — materials used when 19th-century prison was built.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, July 24, 2018

A local saint’s remains are moving. New Jersey’s new school funding model creates winners and losers. Made in America’s ...

Air Date: July 24, 2018

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In this 2017 file photo, the stage for the Made in America concert goes up, as road closures begin along the Ben Franklin Parkway. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Music
Philadelphia
Public Spaces

Neighbors split on reinstatement of Made in America festival on Philly’s Parkway

Made in America will likely return to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in future years. The neighborhood responds.

8 years ago

Listen 2:03
A place has been prepared in the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia for Saint Katharine Drexel, whose shrine will be removed from the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in Bensalem.
Architecture & Design
Philadelphia
Religion

St. Katharine Drexel’s tomb moving to the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul

The new location on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway will be open to the public in September once construction in complete.

8 years ago

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