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The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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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)
Behavioral Health
Pennsylvania
Policing

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
Personal Finance

Prosecutors cite private plane trip as bribe in Sen. Menendez trial

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 ...

9 years ago

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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. ...

9 years ago

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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. ...

9 years ago

In this 2017 photo, protesters in Harrisburg call on lawmakers to support redistricting reform. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Income Inequality
Pennsylvania
Reinvention

Ralliers try to convince Pa. lawmakers to act on gerrymandering

Advocates for overhauling the redistricting process packed the Capitol rotunda in Harrisburg Tuesday hoping to persuade lawmakers to take ...

9 years ago

 Brandon Bostian, (center), the Amtrak engineer charged in a Philadelphia derailment that killed eight in 2015, accompanied by his lawyer Brian McMonagle, (right), arrives for a preliminary hearing at the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
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Philadelphia

Judge dismisses charges against Amtrak engineer

A judge has dismissed criminal charges against the engineer in an Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia that killed eight people. The ...

9 years ago

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Down the Shore
Business
Housing
New Jersey
Public Safety

2 N.J. contracting companies allegedly scammed Sandy victims

State authorities allege that contractors doing business along the Jersey Shore used deceptive practices to obtain more than $1.3 million ...

9 years ago

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Philadelphia
Policing
Social Justice

Philly cop who killed suspect has good chance of getting job back

A soon-to-be-fired Philadelphia police officer could get his job back. On Thursday, the police department announced that Officer R ...

9 years ago

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Delaware
Law
Public Safety

Delaware daycare terrorized, man accused of grabbing infants

Police say a Newark man ran into a daycare center, grabbed two infants and tried to kidnap them. 47-year-old Calvin Davis rang the ...

9 years ago

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Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Policing

Why lawmakers, neighbors want to crack down on Philly’s ‘stop-and-go’ stores

Pastor William Brawner shook his head. Across the street, a handful of older men was carousing around a car parked at the far end ...

9 years ago

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 Police investigate a shooting on 7th St. in May. A 13-year-old boy was arrested after a brief chase. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware
Public Safety

Wilmington leads the country in shooting rate among young people

When the shots rang out — “pop, pop, pop,” and then a thunder roll of gunfire — Maria Williams hit the floor. The ...

9 years ago

 Sen. Bob Menendez, center, arrives at the courthouse with his children, Alicia Menendez and Robert Menendez Jr., in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
Law
National
New Jersey

Judge warns prosecutors against turning Menendez case into ‘tabloid trial’

Minutes after the first witness took the stand Thursday in the federal corruption case against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat from Ne ...

9 years ago

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Insurance
New Jersey
Policing

New Jersey hoping an amnesty approach on Medicaid fraud might work

New Jersey is trying a pilot program that will allow Ocean County residents who fraudently obtained Medicaid to avoid prosecution if they ...

9 years ago

Asa Khalif, organizer of Black Lives Matter's Philadelphia chapter, Rowena Faulk, and Isaac Gardner, protested outside police headquarters Thursday to demand murder charges be brought against officer Pownall.
Philadelphia
Policing
Social Justice

Philly officer will be fired for shooting fleeing suspect in back

A Philadelphia police officer who fatally shot a fleeing suspect in the back during a routine traffic stop has been suspended and will be ...

9 years ago

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 These undated photos provided by the Bucks County district attorney's office in Doylestown, Pa., show Cosmo DiNardo of Bensalem, Pa., an admitted drug dealer with a history of mental illness (left), and Sean Kratz of Philadelphia. The two are charged in the deaths of four young men in July. (Bucks County District Attorney’s Office via AP)
Pennsylvania

DiNardo, cousin will stand trial in slaying of 4 men in Bucks

A judge has held both defendants accused in the Solebury Township, Pennsylvania, killings of four young men for trial in October. ...

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