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Fresh Air Weekend

Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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retail marijuana on shelves
Business
Delaware
Law

‘Bankrupt’ Delaware recreational marijuana license holders express frustration over delay in start of retail sales, zoning obstacles

Delaware legalized adult-use of cannabis in 2023. Sales were expected to start this spring, but delays in fingerprint checks are worrying advocates.

1 year ago

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Two people prepare sandwiches at the Burlington County Library
Food & Drink
Immigration
Incarceration
New Jersey
Public Safety

Burlington County Library reopens cafe in partnership with Special Services School District

Students at the Transitions School will learn job skills and earn work experience operating the cafe at the library system’s Westampton branch, officials said.

1 year ago

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Jersey Kebab in Haddon Township, N.J.
Immigration
New Jersey
Policing

Judge orders release of New Jersey restaurant owner detained by ICE on a $7,500 bond

A federal judge ruled that Emine Emanet can be released from immigration detention on $7,500. She could be reunited with family by Wednesday.

1 year ago

Brandon Graham holds up the trophy
Philadelphia
Sports

Philadelphia Eagles ‘enthusiastically’ accept White House invitation after Super Bowl win

“We sent an invitation, they enthusiastically accepted,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

1 year ago

Aliya Jones (left) and Vida Neil stage a protest
Environment
New Jersey

South Camden residents demand change from EMR after scrapyard fire

“There have been way too many fires at EMR,” one neighbor said. “Nothing’s been done.”

1 year ago

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Lorraine O’Neill visits Longwood Gardens with her mother, Liz O’Neill, joined by her father and brother.
Delaware
Health Care
Housing

A hidden housing crisis: The fight for stable homes for Delaware adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Advocates are pushing for more resources to help adults with disabilities in Delaware who live with aging parents.

1 year ago

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Outside the Newtown Joint Municipal Authority
Environment
Pennsylvania
Public Spaces

A Newtown authority wants to build its own wastewater treatment plant. Residents and elected officials are pushing back

A pivotal meeting Tuesday could decide the fate of the project.

1 year ago

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Tony Royster and two others drumming
Gun Violence
Music
Philadelphia

Philly group uses drumming to fight gun violence

Positive Movement Drumline spreads a message of peace through its drill team in its mission to stop gun violence.

1 year ago

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first responders spraying water on a small plane crash
Pennsylvania
Public Safety
Transportation

A single-engine plane crashes near a Pennsylvania airport and all 5 aboard are taken to hospitals

Air traffic control audio captured the pilot reporting that the aircraft “has an open door, we need to return for a landing.”

1 year ago

An overturned tractor trailer sits on I-76 after a crash on March 8, 2025.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Transportation
Travel
6abc

Overturned tractor trailer shuts down I-76 east for hours

As of 10 a.m. two lanes remain shut down in the eastbound lanes and the westbound lanes have re-opened.

1 year ago

Investigators on the ground at the site of the plane crash
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Transportation

Black box from deadly Northeast Philly plane crash never recorded audio, NTSB investigation reveals

Preliminary investigations found the pilot’s black box recorder did not record audio from the Jan. 31 flight and likely hadn’t worked in years.

1 year ago

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a fire burning at a scrapyard
Employment
Environment
New Jersey

‘Feeding burning cars to the belt’: EMR employees’ actions worsened Camden scrapyard fire, report says

“Their actions caused the … 4-story building to be fully engulfed in flames,” one first responder wrote in a report obtained by WHYY News.

1 year ago

Stanton Cornish-Bell holds his newborn twin sons
Home & Family
Kids
Philadelphia

His twin newborn sons went missing in Philly last summer. Now reunited, a father fights to make the system work better

Missing persons’ posters of two newborn twins in Philly began circulating last summer. But as a father searched for his kids, authorities called the case a “custody issue."

1 year ago

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Residents gather in Glenside in the aftermath of the SPS fire to protest ongoing federal budget and workforce cuts on March 4, 2025.
Pennsylvania
Protests
Public Safety

Glenside residents protest DOGE cuts in the aftermath of SPS fire: ‘Who’s going to be keeping an eye out for us?’

Residents said environmental oversight is crucial as they continue to grapple with the impacts of the industrial disaster in their own backyards.

1 year ago

EMR Recycling in Camden
Environment
New Jersey
Public Health

‘It’s hellish now’: EMR fire leaves Camden residents worried about health and contamination

Neighbors reported difficulty breathing, headaches and lingering odors in the aftermath of the massive blaze.

1 year ago

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