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NewsWorks Tonight, March 21, 2018

We have weather updates from around the region. The Pennsylvania Senate passes a bill to increase gun ownership restrictions on people co ...

Air Date: March 21, 2018

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The front of Panera Bread is visible from Princeton University's campus. (Alan Tu/WHYY)
New Jersey
Public Safety

N.J. AG’s office identifies gunman killed by police in Princeton Panera Bread standoff

The man who police fatally shot Tuesday after a roughly five-hour standoff at a restaurant near Princeton University has been identified as Scott Mielentz.

7 years ago

In this April 4, 2013 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg walks at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook is having one of its worst weeks as a publicly traded company with a share sell-off continuing for a second day. Britain's Commissioner Elizabeth Denham told the BBC that she was investigating Facebook and has asked the company not to pursue its own audit of Cambridge Analytica's data use. Denham is also pursuing a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica's servers. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo, File)
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg admits mistakes, outlines fixes

Zuckerberg said Wednesday that Facebook has a "responsibility" to protect its users' data and if it fails, "we don't deserve to serve you."

7 years ago

The former site of the Daily News and Inquirer at Broad and Callowhill streets. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Philadelphia

Remembering Tom Gibbons, Philadelphia police officer, Inquirer crime reporter

Services were held this week for former Philadelphia Police officer Tom Gibbons, who was also known as a longtime reporter for the Philadelphia Bulletin and Inquirer.

7 years ago

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Aishat Alhaji, second, right, one of the kidnapped girls from the Government Girls Science and Technical College Dapchi who was freed, is photographed after her release, in Dapchi, Nigeria, Wednesday March. 21, 2018. Witnesses say Boko Haram militants have returned an unknown number of the 110 girls who were abducted from their Nigeria school a month ago. (Jossy Ola/AP Photo)
International
Politics

Boko Haram returns Nigeria girls, warns not to put in school

Boko Haram Islamic extremists brought back nearly all of the 110 girls they had kidnapped from a boarding school last month.

7 years ago

Locust Walk on the University of Pennsylvania campus in West Philadelphia.
Speak Easy

Penn Law prof’s comments prove need for racial justice in legal profession

America can never have just laws and policies, or a system that brings equality to everyone, if the caretakers and decision makers of our legal institutions are mostly white.

7 years ago

Members of the New Sanctuary Movement protest outside City Hall
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Three at Philly immigrant organization fired after claiming boss outed them to ICE

New Sanctuary Movement says decision to terminate the employees stemmed from their disrespect of the organization's conflict resolution process.

7 years ago

Snowy first day of Spring (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Delaware
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Philadelphia

Philly region grapples with yet another Nor’easter

According to the National Weather Service, the storm dropped as many as fives inches of snow on the city by 7 p.m.

7 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight, March 20, 2018

We get an update on the standoff near ...

Air Date: March 20, 2018

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4 p.m. Tuesday forecast from the NWS.
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New Jersey

NWS: If you don't have to travel Wednesday, don't

Buckle up!

7 years ago

Snow falls on the La Salle University campus in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
New Jersey
Philadelphia
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This nor’easter means more preparation, and more cancellations

SEPTA is urging customers to plan ahead and avoid unnecessary travel. Hundreds of Wednesday flights from Philadelphia cancelled.

7 years ago

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents investigate the scene at a FedEx distribution center where a package exploded on Tuesday, in Schertz, Texas. Authorities believe the package bomb is linked to the recent string of Austin bombings.
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Public Safety

Bomb destined for Austin explodes at FedEx facility near San Antonio

It's the fifth explosion of a device either in Austin or meant to be delivered to the city.

7 years ago

Police in Princeton, N.J. have closed Nassau Street between Washington Road and Witherspoon Street after a person with a gun entered the Panera restaurant there. (Dana Difilippo/WHYY)

Princeton Panera Bread gunman is dead, says N.J. AG’s office

Updated: 5:59 p.m. — The armed man who had been holed up in a restaurant in Princeton, New Jersey since ...

7 years ago

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., left, and his wife, Coretta Scott King, second from left, join pickets during a tour of an Atlanta slum area
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Remembering ongoing work of women in the civil rights movement

"During the civil rights movement, or any other movement in this country, there are women of color pushing the moral conscience of our country to do better."

7 years ago

Demolition work begins on some abandoned homes on Bennett St. in Wilmington. (Dan Rosenthal/WHYY)
Delaware
Economic Development

Wilmington demolition marks East Side revitalization effort

As workers began tearing down 10 abandoned houses along Bennett Street, Wilmington leaders celebrate fourth round in a long-term effort to raze derelict properties.

7 years ago

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