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Officers run toward a YouTube office in San Bruno, Calif., Tuesday, April 3, 2018. Police say they’re responding to an active shooter at YouTube headquarters.

Woman opens fire at YouTube, 4 wounded and shooter dead

Officers and federal agents swarmed the company's headquarters complex in the city of San Bruno as multiple 911 reports came in reporting gunfire.

7 years ago

Donte DiVincenzo led Salesianum School to back-to-back state titles during his high school career at the Wilmington, Delaware, school. (Provided)
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Villanova basketball star has Delaware roots

Donte DiVincenzo is now a household name after Villanova's national championship win, but Delawareans have long known who he is — and what he can do.

7 years ago

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Meghan Talarowski of Studio Ludo designed the climbing wall at the Cecil B. Moore library with the idea that children need
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A Philadelphia library gets ‘risky’ with a new play space

It all started with an idea the library had to create play spaces where they could get out some of that pent-up energy.

7 years ago

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Villanova head coach Jay Wright reacts after cutting down the net after beating Michigan 79-62 in the championship game of the Final Four NCAA college basketball tournament, Monday, April 2, 2018, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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Villanova championship parade set for Thursday morning in Philly

City hosting celebration for NCAA Men's Basketball Championship winners

7 years ago

Model train displays on display at SEPTA's gift shop
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Philadelphia
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Why 35 grown men traveled hundreds of miles to ride a SEPTA trolley

These railfans are not messing around.

7 years ago

Listen 4:32
Down the Shore
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Prolonged normal spring weather to wait: Below normal temperatures ahead

Spring has sprung, but when will more typical weather arrive at the Jersey Shore?

7 years ago

James Weldon Johnson (back) and his brother John Rosamond Johnson.
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History
Race & Ethnicity

‘The Black National Anthem’

Guest: Imani Perry The Star-Spangled Banner became the official national anthem in 1931, but by then, many black ...

Air Date: April 3, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:46
Villanova students celebrates as the men's basketball team wins the NCAA championship. (Branden Eastwood for WHYY)
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Pennsylvania
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Villanova cements its basketball dominance and Wildcat nation revels

Students flooded the suburban streets Monday night after Villanova won its second men's basketball championship in three years.

7 years ago

Civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Ala., to the state capital in Montgomery in 1965.
(William Lovelace/Getty Images)
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Social Justice

Philly social justice advocates mine lessons from MLK’s legacy

The event, hosted by WHYY and NewCore, is part of a conversation series unfolding across the Philadelphia region since January to mark the 50th anniversary of King's death.

7 years ago

Listen 70:28
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NewsWorks Tonight, April 2, 2018

Potential jurors for Bill Cosby’s upcoming criminal sexual assault retrial answered questions about their ability to be fair and im ...

Air Date: April 2, 2018

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Demonstrators gather outside the entrance to the Sacramento City Council chambers to protest the shooting death of Stephon Clark by Sacramento police, Tuesday, March 27, 2018, in Sacramento,
The Philadelphia Experiment
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Social Justice

It appears to be open season on those standing up against racism

Long before Stephon Clark was shot dead by Sacramento police officers, those who dared to protest police mistreatment of African-Americans became targets.

7 years ago

Villanova head coach Jay Wright, left, offers to bump his fist as Jalen Brunson and Mikal Bridges arrive at a news conference for the championship game of the Final Four NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, April 1, 2018, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Villanova prepares, greasing utility poles, before game

Authorities around the Villanova University campus are preparing — and, yes, greasing utility poles — in anticipation of fan celebrations

7 years ago

Workers and contractors for Sunoco Pipeline begin an ‘additional investigation’ of geological conditions behind homes at Lisa Drive, West Whiteland Township, Chester County where the company has been drilling for construction of the Mariner East 2 and 2X pipelines. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Sunoco to residents near sinkholes: We’ll pay to relocate you during investigation

Sunoco is offering to relocate residents at a Chester County site where drilling for the Mariner East pipelines has caused sink holes to open up in recent weeks.

7 years ago

Winnie Mandela, anti-apartheid campaigner and wife of the late Nelson Mandela, attended ANC National Conference in December.
NPR
International
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, anti-apartheid activist, dies at 81

Madikizela-Mandela, a towering anti-apartheid crusader and former wife of the late Nelson Mandela, died Monday in Johannesburg "after a long illness

7 years ago

Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi (to the city and to the world) blessing at the end of the Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 1, 2018. (Vatican Media via AP)
NPR
International
Religion

‘Hope and dignity:’ Pope calls for peace in Easter message

On Christianity's most joyful day, Pope Francis called for peace, beginning with Syria and extending to Israel.

7 years ago

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