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A Way with Words is an upbeat and lively show about language examined through culture, history, and family. Language debates, variations, and evolution, as well as new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, word histories, etymology, linguistics, regional dialects, word games, grammar, books, literature, writing, and more.
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A Way with Words

A Way with Words is an upbeat and lively show about language examined through culture, history, and family. Language debates, variations, and evolution, as well as new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, word histories, etymology, linguistics, regional dialects, word games, grammar, books, literature, writing, and more.

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 Jerry Sandusky, and his wife, Dottie Sandusky (left), and an undated file photo provided by the Centre County Correctional Facility (right) shows Jeffrey Sandusky, the son of former Penn State University assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, who has pleaded guilty pressuring a teenage girl to send him naked photos and asking her teen sister to give him oral sex. (Matt Rourke and Centre County Correctional Facility/AP, file)

Sandusky’s son pleads guilty to child sex abuse allegations

A son of former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky pleaded guilty Friday to charges he pressured a teenage gir ...

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 This Sept. 15, 2017 photo shows the exterior of the McCormick & Schmick's restaurant at the Harrah's casino in Atlantic City N.J.  (Wayne Parry/AP Photo)
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Man burned by caustic beer at Atlantic City McCormick & Schmick’s gets $750K

A New Jersey man whose esophagus and stomach were severely burned after drinking a beer tainted by a caustic chemical at an Atlantic City ...

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Bill Cosby walks from the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pa., Friday, June 9, 2017. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
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Pennsylvania

Judge sets date for Cosby retrial on sexual assault charges

A judge has scheduled a new date for Bill Cosby’s retrial on charges he drugged and molested a woman more than a decade ago. ...

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 Philadelphia City Commissioners (from left) Anthony Clark, Lisa Deeley, and Al Schmidt, review write-in votes from the 197th legislative district special election in which more than 90 percent of the votes were write-ins. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Two losing Pa. House candidates ask court for new election

Two losing candidates in a special election to for Pennsylvania State Representative seat in the 197th  District argued in federal c ...

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 (File: Cliff Owen/The Associated Press)
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Feds seek delay of child sex abuse trial of former Dover airman

Federal prosecutors are seeking to postpone the trial of a former Dover Air Force Base airman charged with sexually abusing a teenage run ...

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Delaware

Second incident of racist graffiti in Wilmington

Another car in Wilmington was spray painted with, “KKK,” “White Power,” and other racist graffiti. The car ...

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 U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Matthew Leinbach, right, from the New Jersey Air National Guard's 108th Security Forces Squadron, instructs airmen on squad tactics and danger crossing techniques at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 23, 2017. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)
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N.J. National Guard to provide security during Irma relief efforts in U.S. Virgin Islands

More than two dozen New Jersey National Guard troops are heading to the U.S. Virgin Islands to assist with security efforts during the in ...

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 Two of the protesters are put on a freight elevator at City Hall after being removed from Council chambers. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Philadelphia

Sheriff deputies remove 5 protesters from Philadelphia City Council meeting

Sheriff’s deputies forcibly removed five people from Philadelphia City Council’s weekly session Thursday.  Megan ...

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Former FBI Director Louis Freeh speaks in view of a Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare's ChildlLine during a news conference, Thursday, July 12, 2012, in Philadelphia. After an eight-month inquiry, Freeh's firm produced a 267-page report that concluded that Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials hushed up child sex abuse allegation against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago for fear of bad publicity, allowing Sandusky to prey on other youngsters. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
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Pennsylvania

Report: Pennsylvania child abuse workers swamped, underpaid

The county caseworkers who investigate child abuse in Pennsylvania are underpaid, inadequately trained, plagued by high turnover and face ...

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Philadelphia head of the NAACP Rodney Muhammad speaks at City Hall. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Philadelphia
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NAACP demands equal justice in building collapse case

The Philadelphia NAACP said it wants the black contractor involved in the 2013 fatal Center City building collapse to receive the same tr ...

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 Mentor Frantz Herr (left) and returning citizen Isaac Rivera (right) have a discussion before the Lancaster County re-entry program at the Ebenezer Baptist Church Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (Bradley C. Bower/Philadelphia Inquirer)
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Pennsylvania
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Lancaster knows how to keep people out of jail, but it’s expensive

After nearly two decades in prison, Isaac Rivera was ready to remake himself. The 41-year-old from Lancaster served time after a 1 ...

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 U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez speaks  during a news conference, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, in Union Beach, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
New Jersey
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A wealthy donor on trial for bribery with U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez spent more than $8,000 to fly Menendez back to Washington from Florida o ...

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Delaware

Delaware slips in ranking in legal climate report

Delaware has fallen short this year in an annual report that explores how fair the states’ tort liability systems are to businesses. ...

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Delaware
Public Safety
Public Spaces

Supreme Court weighs gun ban in Delaware parks, forests

Delaware’s Supreme Court is weighing a decision in a lawsuit challenging bans on non-hunting firearms in state parks and forests. ...

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In this 2017 photo, protesters in Harrisburg call on lawmakers to support redistricting reform. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
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Ralliers try to convince Pa. lawmakers to act on gerrymandering

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