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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

People gather at a Starbucks on 18th and Spruce streets in Philadelphia to protest Thursday's controversial arrests of two black men at the store. (Bastiaan Slabbers/for WHYY)

Not everyone is sold on Starbucks’ new loitering policy

Starbucks changed its policy to explicitly say people don't need to buy something to use the bathroom or sit. It's not winning much support.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight May 21, 2018

Local congressmen try to press the DACA issue to the house floor.  Local organizations react to the desecration of an Israeli flag on th ...

Air Date: May 21, 2018

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After the weather cleared the South Philly team made another attempt to climb the grease pole. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
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Community Events
Philadelphia

No Super Bowl needed: Grease pole tradition continues at Philly’s 9th Street Market

The grease pole tradition continued on Sunday in South Philadelphia, but this time in a sanctioned competition at the annual 9th Street Italian Market Festival.

8 years ago

(Rob Tornoe/WHYY)
First
Delaware
Sports

Delaware sports betting will create a lot of winners

Following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that will allow sports betting nationwide, editorial cartoonist Rob Tornoe has questions about who will benefit and who won't.

8 years ago

Pope Francis is cheered by faithful during an audience with health workers, in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Saturday, March 3, 2018. (L'Osservatore Romano/ANSA via AP)
LGBTQ
Religion

LGBT community cheers pope’s ‘God made you like this’ remark

Pope Francis' reported comments have been embraced by the LGBT community as another sign of Francis' desire to make gay people feel welcomed and loved in the Catholic Church.

8 years ago

Delaware's master barber Lina Rosser shapes up her client in her Wilmington barber shop. (Andrea Gibbs/ WHYY)
Business
Delaware
Gender

Get the look with Delaware’s first female barber

Delaware's female barbers are proving they can cut it in the male-dominated barbering industry.

8 years ago

The FDNY boat crew that rescued five people from the Raritan Bay in Monmouth County, N.J. on Friday night. (Courtesy of FDNY)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

5 rescued from rough waters after boat capsizes off N.J.

Authorities say fire department rescuers plucked five boaters from rough waters off New Jersey after their boat capsized.

8 years ago

Rafaela Serrano's house in the municipality of Caguas is still roofless eight months after Hurricane Maria. Countless homes on the island remain damaged two weeks before the start of the next hurricane season. (Adrian Florido/NPR)
NPR
Environment
Infrastructure

Puerto Rico officials say they’re ready for hurricane season, but worries mount

Officials also said they have pre-positioned emergency generators at critical facilities like police and fire stations and hospitals.

8 years ago

Santa Fe High School sophomore Averi Gary (center) is comforted during a vigil after the deadly mass shooting in Texas on Friday. David J. Phillip/AP
NPR
National
Public Safety

8 students, 2 teachers killed in Santa Fe High School shooting

Eight students and two teachers died during the 15-minute assault at Santa Fe High School in Texas on Friday.

8 years ago

About 50 protesters gathered inside the Starbucks near Rittenhouse Square on Monday morning to protest the recent arrest of two black men. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

New Starbucks policy: No purchase needed to sit in cafes

Starbucks announced a new policy Saturday that allows anyone to sit in its cafes or use its restrooms, even if they don't buy anything.

8 years ago

This photo provided by the Galveston County Sheriff's Office shows Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who law enforcement officials took into custody on Friday and identified as the suspect in the deadly school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas. (Galveston County Sheriff's Office via AP)
NPR
National
Public Safety

What we know about the alleged Texas high school shooter

The governor said there is nothing at this time that would indicate there were missed warning signs.

8 years ago


Kentucky Derby winner Justify, with exercise rider Humberto Gomez aboard, gallops around the track Thursday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. The Preakness Stakes is scheduled to take place Saturday and Justify is the favorite. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
NPR
National
Sports

Kentucky Derby winner Justify is favored to win soggy Preakness

While it's a field of eight horses, it's expected to be a two-horse race: Justify and Good Magic.

8 years ago

An angler in Island Beach State Park. (Jennifer Husar)
Down the Shore
Community Events
New Jersey
Outdoors

Governor’s Surf Fishing Tournament is Sunday at Island Beach State Park

The longstanding Jersey Shore tradition is slated for Sunday.

8 years ago

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