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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 ...

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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

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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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Delaware
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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)
Speak Easy
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
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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

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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

Craters formed by bombs dropped during the Vietnam War
History
Military
Visual Arts

Video artist traces the scars of war from South Philly to Vietnam

A Philadelphia video artist born in Vietnam is shooting a documentary chronicling his personal connection to scars the war left on the landscape.

8 years ago

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Aging
Housing
New Jersey

Elderly couple killed in retirement community fire

Authorities say an elderly New Jersey couple was killed when a fast-moving fire roared through their home in a retirement community in Oc ...

8 years ago

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New Jersey
Public Safety

Hundreds run in military charity race marred last year by bombing

Hundreds of runners came out Saturday for a Marine Corps charity race on the New Jersey shore, a race run without incident one year after ...

8 years ago

 Zhan Zhang, a friend of Xiyue Wang, speaks during a vigil calling for his release (Jeanette Beebe for WHYY)
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New Jersey

Candlelight vigil honors Princeton graduate student imprisoned in Iran

On Friday night, friends, family, and colleagues of Princeton graduate student Xiyue Wang lit candles and called on the government of Ira ...

8 years ago

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