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Over the next two months, the Bensalem Police Department will offer parents and community members guided tours of
Home & Family
K-12
Pennsylvania

Mock teenage bedroom helps parents recognize signs of risk

Over the next two months, the Bensalem police department will offer parents and community members guided tours so they can learn the signs of at-risk behaviors.

8 years ago

The Aker Philadelphia Shipyard at the Navy Yard in South Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Business
Philadelphia

Philly Shipyard laying off 275 workers amid slump in vessel orders

Philly Shipyard executives say they plan to eliminate 275 jobs starting in July. The company is looking to cut costs as new orders for vessels dramatically slow down.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight May 23, 2018

Malcolm Kenyatta will likely be the first openly gay black member of the legislature in Harrisburg. In the primary, he found homophobic f ...

Air Date: May 23, 2018

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Down the Shore
Environment
Law
New Jersey

Jersey Shore town adopts ‘most comprehensive’ plastic ban in country, group says

You won't be finding plastic straws or styrofoam take-out containers in one Jersey Shore town.

8 years ago

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell tells reporters the NFL team owners have reached agreement on a new league policy that requires players to stand for the national anthem or remain in the locker room during the NFL owner's spring meeting Wednesday, May 23, 2018, in Atlanta. (John Bazemore/AP Photo)
National
Politics
Sports

NFL owners adopt new policy to address anthem protests

Players will be required to stand if they are on the field.

8 years ago

Bryan Norris, founder of the Refugee Makers Project in Lancaster, holds two caftans, which creator Remmy Kasongo calls bubus.
NewsWorks Tonight
Business
Immigration

Budding clothing line provides lifeline for African refugee starting over in Lancaster

A small but growing clothing line from Lancaster, Pennsylvania is an unusual example of an African refugee being able to put to work skills he used back home.

8 years ago

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current New York Stock Exchange chief operating officer, will become the exchange's 67th president starting Friday. She will be its first female leader in the exchange's 226-year history. (Richard Drew/AP)
NPR
Business
Gender
National

A woman has been named as NYSE president. It only took 226 years

Stacey Cunningham started her career at the exchange as a summer intern in 1994. She's now the chief operating officer.

8 years ago

The shelter at Kensington Avenue and Willard Street opens at 6 p.m. daily. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Addiction
Philadelphia
Policing

Effort to clear out some Philly homeless encampments drawing to a close

This time next week, Philadelphia police will officially shut down half of the homeless encampments in Kensington, ground zero of the city’s opioid epidemic.

8 years ago

rooftop solar panels
PlanPhilly
Energy
Environment
Technology

Philly introduces affordable route to rooftop solar

Solarize Philly, the city group-buying program rolled out in April, promises an additional 20 percent savings on monthly energy bills for those who participate.

8 years ago

Paul Frame is an American citizen and husband of Ivan Martinez. The ACLU of Pennsylvania, Juntos, members from the immigrant and LGBTQ communities and allies gathered at the William Way LGBT Community Center in Center City, Philadelphia on May 22, to announce the federal filing of a legal complaint to end the unlawful detention of Jose “Ivan” Noe Nuñez Martinez, who has been in detention since Jan. 31, 2018 after ICE showed up to a routine marriage interview at USCIS. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Immigration

ACLU of Pa. pushing for release of gay immigrant who faces danger in Mexico

ICE agents arrested Jose “Ivan” Nuñez Martinez in January as he and his husband, Paul Frame, a U.S. citizen, were taking steps to apply for his green card.

8 years ago

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In this video, Amazon's Ranju Das demonstrates real-time facial recognition to an audience. It shows video from a traffic cam that he said was provided by the city of Orlando, where police have been trying the technology out.
(Amazon Web Services Korea via YouTube/Screenshot by NPR)
NPR
National
Policing
Technology

Orlando Police testing Amazon’s real-time facial recognition

There are no laws explicitly barring law enforcement from using real-time facial recognition, and the constitutionality has not been tested by higher courts.

8 years ago

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Speak Easy

Butterflies should be free

Grieving mother caught in a snare of addiction and loss.

8 years ago

Salima Ellis in the kitchen of her Mt Airy home.
PlanPhilly
Income Inequality
Infrastructure
Philadelphia

Past due: Plan to stop water shut-offs sputters as rate hike looms

Salima Ellis tries hard to pay her water bill in full every month, but often it's difficult to find the $80 or so she needs to keep the H20 flowing and her account up to date.

8 years ago

The Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Cape May team in action. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo/file)
Down the Shore
New Jersey
Transportation

Navigation buoys once again mark historically treacherous N.J. inlet

Just before the unofficial beginning to the Jersey Shore summer season, the U.S. Coast Guard has installed eight buoys in the newly dredged Little Egg Inlet. 

8 years ago

The Blood Bank of Delmarva wants to receive 30,000 donations by Sept. 11. (Courtesy of the Blood Bank of Delmarva)
Delaware
Health Care

Blood Bank of Delmarva seeks 30,000 donors this summer

Blood Bank of Delmarva hopes to double the amount of donors during its 16th annual summer blood drive, which kicked off Monday.

8 years ago

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