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Host Stephen Dubner has surprising conversations that explore the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature-from cheating and crime to parenting and sports. Dubner talks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, social scientists and entrepreneurs - and his Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt.

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Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman, center, speaks to reporters Dec. 6, 2018 about the October 26 multi-vehicle crash that killed two Warwick High School students. At left is Lititz Borough Police Chief Kerry Nye. At right, Lancaster County Assistant District Attorney Jared Hinsey. (Brett Sholtis/WITF News)
Keystone Crossroads
Criminal Justice

Lancaster County tops list for charging heroin dealers with homicide

Lancaster County pursues drug-induced homicide charges more than any other county in the United States, according to a recent report from data gathering project Mission LISA.

6 years ago

Migrant teens walk in a line at a shelter for unaccompanied children, on Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. (Brynn Anderson/AP Photo)

Lawyers: Immigrant kids’ detention is prolonged, unconstitutional

The class action lawsuit seeks to end the practice of sharing sponsors’ information with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

6 years ago

A supporter of LGBT rights holds up an 'equality flag' on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, during an event held by Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass. in response to President Donald Trump's declaration that he wants transgender people barred from serving in the U.S. military 'in any capacity,' citing 'tremendous medical costs and disruption.' (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
Delaware
LGBTQ

LGBTQ rights group calls transgender troop ban ‘distressing,’ but still holds out hope

A Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration's restrictions on transgender troops to go forward. But equality activists say the case is far from over.

6 years ago

In June, Muslim kids were asked to leave the Foster Brown Pool in Wilmington because of  what they were wearing. Now, the city has paid $50,000 to settle a discrimination claim. (Image via Google Maps)
Delaware
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Religion

Wilmington pays $50,000 to Muslim school, students to settle discrimination claim

The payment ends a lawsuit filed in August after a Darul Amaanah Academy teacher and students complained they were harassed by management and staff at the Foster Brown Pool.

6 years ago

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Recording artist Meek Mill, right, speaks about his incarceration along with Philadelphia 76ers co-owner and Fanatics executive chairman Michael Rubin at the launch of REFORM Alliance, a partnership among entertainment moguls, entrepreneurs, recording artists, and business and sports leaders who hope to transform the American criminal justice system, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, in New York. (Kathy Willens/AP Photo)
Government Accountability

Meek Mill, Jay-Z and sports owners back justice reforms

The Reform Alliance will be led by Van Jones, a CNN host and activist who at one point served as an adviser to former President Barack Obama.

6 years ago

A police SWAT team arrives at the site of a standoff between law enforcement and a fugitive they were trying to arrest, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019 in Salem, N.J. New Jersey State Police and other law enforcement agencies responded to Salem after reports that shots were fired during the standoff. (Geoff Mulvihill/AP Photo)
New Jersey
Public Safety

Salem standoff ends with man in custody, no injuries reported

N.J. authorities say a man is in custody following a standoff that began after law enforcement agencies responded to reports of shots fired in Salem City.

6 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney Tuesday announces efforts to reduce recidivism at the Department of Correction administration building in Dover. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Delaware

$1.5 million from feds will help Delaware assist inmates re-entering community

Delaware will use $1.5 million in federal grant money to help inmates reintegrate into society in hopes of reducing the number of inmates who return to prison.

6 years ago

Medical officials at Philadelphia Department of Prisons say they are struggling to meet the demand for Medication-Assisted treatment among inmates as the result of federal prescription limits and unexpected staff turnover. (Nina Feldman/WHYY)
Addiction
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Philadelphia jail scrambles to find doctors who can prescribe addiction treatment

Due to federal prescribing limits, the men's prison has found itself in a tough position: It has more people who need the drug Suboxone than doctors who can prescribe it.

6 years ago

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Banker Joseph Terranova, the key cooperating witness against his former colleagues at Wilmington Trust, was sentenced Tuesday to 21 months in prison for his part in the multimillion-dollar fraud scheme. (WHYY file)
Criminal Justice
Delaware

After wearing FBI wire, former Wilmington Trust banker still gets 21 months in prison

Joseph Terranova secretly recorded a Wilmington Trust colleague and developers during their canasta games. He was the government's key witness but is still going to prison.

6 years ago

In December, Johnny Bobbitt stands during a hearing Burlington County Courthouse in Mt. Holly, New Jersey. (David Swanson /The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, Pool, File)
New Jersey

Homeless man in GoFundMe case extradited back to New Jersey

A homeless veteran accused of engaging in a GoFundMe scheme has been extradited back to New Jersey after being taken into custody across the river in Philadelphia.

6 years ago

Police office guards the main entrance to the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018 (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo)
National
Politics

Supreme Court returns to gun rights for 1st time in 9 years

The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will take up its first gun rights case in nine years, a challenge to New York City's prohibition.

6 years ago

A group of two dozen activists briefly blocks traffic during a rally outside the Philadelphia district attorney’s office in December. The group is urging District Attorney Larry Krasner not to challenge a Common Pleas Court ruling that allows Mumia Abu-Jamal to file an appeal of his murder conviction. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Philadelphia

DA: New Mumia Abu-Jamal files show no sign of judge conflict

Philadelphia prosecutors say they've found no hint from newly found files in a former Black Panther's police slaying case that a judge involved had a conflict of interest.

6 years ago

A supporter of LGBT rights holds up an 'equality flag' on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, during an event held by Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass. in response to President Donald Trump's declaration that he wants transgender people barred from serving in the U.S. military 'in any capacity,' citing 'tremendous medical costs and disruption.' (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
LGBTQ
Military

High court lets military implement transgender restrictions

The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender people while court challenges continue.

6 years ago

In this Thursday, July 10, 2014 photo, Bobby Bostic stands for a portrait in the visitation room at the Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron, Mo., where he has served 23 years of a 241-year sentence for a 1995 robbery. At the age of 16, Bostic and a friend held up some people delivering some donated Christmas gifts to a needy St. Louis family. Bostic fired a shot that grazed one man. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
Criminal Justice

After 2016 ruling, battles over juvenile lifer cases persist

About 400 offenders originally sentenced to life without parole as juveniles have been released nationwide, and hundreds of others have been resentenced to shorter terms.

6 years ago

The Rev. Marvin Hunter, Laquan McDonald's great-uncle, speaks with reporters at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago on Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, after the sentencing of former Chicago officer Jason Van Dyke for the 2014 shooting of McDonald. The white Chicago officer was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison for gunning down the black teenager, ending an explosive case that arose from one of the nation's most graphic dashcam videos and added fuel to debates about race and policing.  (Teresa Crawford/AP)
Criminal Justice

Call for political action after Laquan McDonald cases

A judge on Friday sentenced former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke to less than seven years in prison for Laquan McDonald's 2014 death.

6 years ago

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