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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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Policing

After recent protest at Philly cop’s home, hundreds gather in Northeast to ‘Back the Blue’

One week after a small, but controversial protest outside a veteran Philadelphia police officer’s home, the city’s largest po ...

8 years ago

People hold signs and photos of friends and loved ones lost to opioid overdoses under the El Thursday for the March in Black that traveled from the York-Dauphin Station to Somerset Station. (Brad Larrison for NewsWorks)
Philadelphia
Public Health

Hundreds ‘March in Black’ to shed light on Philly’s opioid crisis

More than 300 people wearing black walked through the streets of Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood Thursday night, past some ...

8 years ago

 Villanova head coach Jay Wright, center, celebrates with 1985 Villanova coach Rollie Massimino, right, after the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball championship game against North Carolina last year. Massimino, who led Villanova to the NCAA title in 1985, died Wednesday at 82. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Higher Education

Rollie Massimino, who led Villanova to ’85 NCAA title, dies at 82

Rollie Massimino, who led Villanova’s storied run to the 1985 NCAA championship and won more than 800 games in his coaching career, ...

8 years ago

New Jersey

New Jersey to renovate 15 rest stops on GSP and NJTP

Governor Christie say 15 service areas along the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway are in line for renovation or replacement. ...

8 years ago

 (photo courtesy DE Dept. of Labor/Facebook)
Delaware

Mobile employment bus lands in Wilmington [video]

While the regional economy may be improving, Delaware’s unemployment rate remains stubbornly stagnant. The state Department of Labo ...

8 years ago

 Entry to the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, with snow covered railtracks leading to the camp in February/March 1945.  (AP Photo/Stanislaw Mucha)
New Jersey

Holocaust survivor to speak at Cape May’s WWII aircraft show

Holocaust survivor and World War II veteran, David Wisnia, of Levittow, Pa.,  will be sharing his remarkable story Sat, Sept 2, at t ...

8 years ago

 Image courtesy of the New Jersey State Police.
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Boater beaches ‘Salty Porkchop’ to avoid sinking, authorities say

A quick-thinking boat captain ran his vessel onto a Monmouth County beach on Sunday to save it from sinking, authorities say. Ther ...

8 years ago

Metropolitan-Archbishop Stefan Soroka greets pilgrims.
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Pennsylvania
Religion

Pilgrims return to abandoned coal town for worship and fellowship

Only a few structures still stand in what was Centralia, Pennsylvania. Even fewer are visible through the tree cover from the top of an a ...

8 years ago

Photo: Justin Auciello/for NewsWorks
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Mostly nice weather week ahead at the Jersey Shore

The final traditional vacation week of summer is looking decent at the Jersey Shore, forecasters say. Mostly sunny skies on Monday ...

8 years ago

 Friends Franklin Halloween, 16, left, and Deleon Gambel, 14, fight the current from the overflow of Buffalo Bayou as they make their way through floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey while checking on neighbors in their apartment complex in Houston, Texas, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Infrastructure
National

Don’t let Hurricane Harvey become Hurricane Katrina

As I watched the horrific images of Hurricane Harvey causing catastrophic flooding in Houston, I was moved. I grieved for the five ...

8 years ago

Rough conditions off South Seaside Park in early August 2015. (Photo: Justin Auciello)
Down the Shore
New Jersey
Public Safety

Possible high risk of rip currents for beginning of next week

Persistent onshore flow increasing Monday is could spur a high risk of rip current development, forecasters say. The culprit will ...

8 years ago

A lone boat cruising the Cape May Canal. (Image: @gpo321 as tagged #JSHN on Instagram)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Autumn-like weekend ahead at the Jersey Shore

A taste of fall is ahead this weekend at the Jersey Shore. Under mostly sunny skies both days, high temperatures will only climb i ...

8 years ago

(John Jankowski/for Newsworks)
Delaware
Public Spaces
Race & Ethnicity

New Castle County playground is latest area hit with racist graffiti

New Castle County police officers want to know who would spread hate at a children’s playground with racist graffiti. On Thu ...

8 years ago

 An estimated 100 people attended a community meeting in Headhouse Square addressing concerns over the district's homeless population. (Emily Scott/for NewsWorks)
Homelessness
Philadelphia

Headhouse district contends with surge in panhandlers, homeless

Every Sunday from the spring until the fall, Philadelphia’s historic Headhouse Shambles is transformed into a busy farmers market f ...

8 years ago

 Mayor Jim Kenney wil formally ask the Philadelphia Art Commission to weigh in on whether to remove the 9-foot statue of former Mayor Frank Rizzo from the steps of the Municipal Services Building.(Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Politics
Sculpture

Kenney administration will ask Philly Art Commission to review Rizzo statue location

Philadelphia’s mayor has promised a review of whether to move the Frank Rizzo statue that has again inspired controversy following ...

8 years ago

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