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NASA's Aqua satellite captured infrared data on Tropical Storm Jose on Sept. 20 at 2:55 a.m.  (Photo courtesy of NASA)
New Jersey

Tropical Storm Jose leaves rough surf along Jersey coast

The Jersey Shore is still feeling some effects from Tropical Storm Jose. While the storm stayed far out at sea, it churned up the ...

8 years ago

Delaware
Public Safety

The Tornoe Spin: The broken record of promises about Wilmington’s gun problem

I bet you’ve already forgotten that now is supposed to be the time to stop the gun violence in Wilmington.  ...

8 years ago

Robert McNamara, right, defense secretary under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, is shown in 2001 at a forum at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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History
Income Inequality
Military

Who fights our wars? Other people’s children

A volunteer-only army outsources foreign wars to the poor and working class — one of the worst legacies of Vietnam, which was also fought mostly by less-privileged Americans.

8 years ago

In March 1985, Larry Holmes, left, battles David Bey during a bout in Las Vegas. Bey, a former heavyweight boxing champ from Philadelphia nicknamed
Philadelphia
Sports

Former Philly boxing champ killed in Camden accident

A former heavyweight boxing champ who was defeated by Larry Holmes died last week in a construction accident in Camden. The Occupa ...

8 years ago

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Delaware
K-12
Policing

Delaware reading program honors fallen state trooper

The wife of fallen Delaware State Police Trooper Corporal Stephen J. Ballard, is honoring the memory of her husband through a children ...

8 years ago

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Beach erosion in Stone Harbor. (Photo: Zeke Orzech)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Hurricane Jose impacts the Jersey Shore with beach erosion, wind

Hurricane Jose might be a few hundred miles off the Jersey Shore but the storm has been impacting the coastline since Monday night.

8 years ago

(Big Stock photo)
New Jersey

A huge fundraising event for the Voorhees animal shelter returns Saturday

Area dog lovers will want to head to John Connelly Park in Voorhees this Saturday, Sept 23, to catchthe 21st annual ...

8 years ago

Delaware

Hurricane Jose brings flooding waves to Delaware beaches

A major road connecting Delaware beaches was closed Tuesday morning after ocean water broke through a dune and flooded the highway. ...

8 years ago

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Business
Delaware
Streets & Roads

Wilmington audit reveals wasteful trash collection spending

For years, nearly 100 Wilmington businesses and nonprofits had their trash picked up for free, costing the city hundreds of thousands of ...

8 years ago

Two men are shown burning draft cards at a Jan 31, 1977, rally at J.F.K. Plaza. (Joseph Wasko / Courtesy of George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection, Temple University Libraries)
Speak Easy

‘The voice of the people will be heard’ — from Vietnam protests to the new resistance

Like Americans who demonstrated against the Vietnam War in the late '60s, today's protesters know that it takes more than just one disruption to get the country and its electe

8 years ago

Ben Carson, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is shown speaking with city and housing officials at a shelter in Columbus, Ohio, in April. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, file)
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Economic Development
Housing
Philadelphia

As Carson visits Philly, let’s call for a stronger, fairer HUD

With so many crises since Donald Trump’s inauguration day in January, it’s hard to know where to place one’s atte ...

8 years ago

Dozens of University of Delaware students rally to show their support for those in danger of losing their DACA protections. (Nichelle Polston/WHYY)
Delaware
Immigration

University of Delaware students rally in support of DACA [video]

What’s going to happen to DACA students? While that is being debated, some University of Delaware students rallied to show their su ...

8 years ago

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Down the Shore

Firefighters, lifeguards rescue 2 swimmers clinging to boogie board

Wildwood firefighters and lifeguards rescued two swimmers who were in distress “well beyond the breakers” of an unguarded bea ...

8 years ago

History
International
Military

The Philly Vietnam wall still speaks to and for many [video]

This story is part of a WHYY series examining how the United States, four decades later, is ...

8 years ago

Police stand guard at the Frank Rizzo statue on the grounds of the Municipal Services Building. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
Sculpture

3,000 suggestions later, Rizzo statue’s future still in limbo

The chance to have your say about what Philadelphia should do with the statue of former Mayor Frank Rizzo is over. But it will be ...

8 years ago

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