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 Wendy Osorio Martinez sits with her 3-year-old son, Diego Rivera Osorio in a booth at Plaza Azteca in Wyomissing, Berks County. (Emily Cohen for NewsWorks)
Immigration

Judge frees mom, toddler from Berks immigrant detention center after 22 months

A mother from Honduras and her 3-year-old son are free after nearly two years in an immigrant detention center in Berks County, Pennsylva ...

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Expungements can erase the stigma that haunts people of color

A criminal record can haunt a person long after a case has ended, even if that person is found not guilty or all the charges against them ...

8 years ago

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Prisons’ silence on Philadelphia inmate’s murder perturbs reformers

Sterling Cole was a father of five, a loyal Eagles fan, and a handyman and mason whose favorite project was fixing up his own house. ...

8 years ago

Trinity Christianson, 13, failed to return to the residence her family was renting, according to a Wildwood Police Department, which released this photo.
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Teen missing from Wildwood

Police in Wildwood are searching for a teenager who was reported missing early Sunday morning. Trinity Christianson, 13, failed to ...

8 years ago

Alfred Tribble considers filing a lawsuit against the Philadelphia Police Department after his son was injured by an off-duty police officer in Brewerytown. (Annette John-Hall/WHYY)
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Family considering lawsuit in Philadelphia’s Brewerytown incident

The fallout stemming from a rock-throwing incident between neighborhood teens and members of a new gym in Brewerytown resulted ...

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If people get interracial marriage wrong, it can be worse with divorce

My first real clue that things actually weren't as rosy as I thought came when people anxiously wanted to know if I would keep my married name.

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Was the youngest person executed by Pennsylvania actually innocent?

The O.J. Simpson parole hearing is dominating the non-politcal news, but the legacy of race relations looming large in the criminal justi ...

8 years ago

Tiffany’s sister Jessie Vallauri, mother Dianne Valiante, and sister Krystal Summerville, stand near a memorial to her in the yard of the family’s home. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Family of N.J. teen killed by train disputes suicide ruling, sues to prove kidnap-murder plot

It took less than a day, after Tiffany Valiante got hit by a New Jersey Transit train, for investigators to decide she committed suicide. Her parents never believed it.

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First responders rescue several people from capsized boat in canal

No one was injured when a boat overturned and several people were tossed into the water in northern Ocean County late Sunday afternoon. ...

8 years ago

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Cops revive driver with Narcan after chain reaction collision at the Shore

A 26-year old Cape May County man is facing a variety of charges after police say they had to revive him from an apparent drug overdose a ...

8 years ago

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Sex & Relationships

This white chocolate martini does not mean what you think it means

It wasn't until eight years later that my husband and I realized the pun: a white bride and black groom. We felt a little embarrassed by the unintended joke.

8 years ago

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The opioid crisis in Philadelphia

Guests: Maria Quiñones-Sánchez, Silvana Mazzella, Carol Rostucher, Mike Newall The cleanup of the heroin encamp ...

Air Date: July 12, 2017

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New York City reports speed enforcement cameras are ‘very effective’

What can Philadelphia learn from New York’s automated speed enforcement camera program? Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia ...

8 years ago

 Bill Cosby departs the Montgomery County Courthouse after an April pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case in Norristown, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Cosby fan gets hearing after allegedly recording trial’s end

Court officials in Montgomery County have set a hearing for a woma ...

8 years ago

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Victory in Mosul; nooses in Philadelphia

Guests: Tim Arango, Steven Cook, Imani Perry Iraqi forces recaptured Mosul this week, driving out the last ISIS f ...

Air Date: July 11, 2017

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