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(Courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
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Army Corps: Material pumped ashore at Ocean County beach harmless

As part of a beach fill and dune construction project along the northern Ocean County coast, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began dredging and pumping sand on Ortley Beach.

8 years ago

Cirque du Soleil VOLTA (Photo Courtesy/Cirque du Soleil)
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Experiencing Cirque du Soleil’s VOLTA with your kids

Now through August 19th, Philadelphia families have the wonderful opportunity of catching Cirque du Soleil’s energetic, imag ...

8 years ago

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Jon Meacham on The Battle for Our Better Angels

Guest: Jon Meacham Presidential historian JON MEACHAM j ...

Air Date: July 13, 2018 10:00 am

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Dive Crew shows off the plate from boat sunk by German U-boats during World War II. Top Left Tom Packer, Bottom Left Rustin Cassway, Top Right, Mike Dudas, Bottom Right Brian Sullivan (Photo courtesy of Rustin Cassway)
History
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New Jersey

Shipwreck found dating back to WWII off Jersey coast

The Octavian was sunk by a German U-boat during World War II.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, July 12, 2018

Renee Tartaglione gets sentenced for embezzlement. Drexel University’s neighbors worry that the university’s development plan ...

Air Date: July 12, 2018

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A May 2017 kickoff event for PennAssist's pre-employment program, which had a younger group of 44 participants
PlanPhilly
Business
Economic Development
PlanPhilly

These pre-employment programs could be a model for Rebuild’s jobs goals

The Advanced Manufacturing Boot Camp, along with PennAssist, a program that launched in summer 2017, are viewed as experimental models for what Rebuild aims to accomplish.

8 years ago

Radio Times
History
Race & Ethnicity

Philadelphia’s legacy of slavery

Guests: Kathleen Brown, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Kenyatta Johnson In 2016, several major universities founded in t ...

Air Date: July 12, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:58
NewsWorks Tonight
Environment
New Jersey
Politics

NewsWorks Tonight, July 11, 2018

WNYC’s Matt Katz joins us to talk about how ...

Air Date: July 11, 2018

Listen 20:31
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.

8 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

8 years ago

Evangelical minister Rob Schenck says change is a part of spirituality:
NPR
Home & Family
Public Health
Religion

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.

8 years ago

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

8 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

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
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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.

8 years ago

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