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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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File photo: In this April 10, 2013, file photo, a stag arms AR-15 rifle with 30 round, left, and 10 round magazines is displayed in New Britain, Conn. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
Delaware
Gun Violence
Law

Delaware fights challenge to assault weapons, large-capacity magazine bans in appeals court

The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia is weighing whether to grant requests by gun rights advocates to bar Delaware laws they argue are unconstitutional.

2 years ago

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel
Crime
Gun Violence
Philadelphia

Two 18-year-olds charged in mass shooting at SEPTA bus stop

Two people have been arrested and charged in last week’s mass shooting that hurt eight Northeast High School students at a SEPTA bus stop.

2 years ago

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Bob Menendez standing in a hallway
Crime
Government Accountability
New Jersey

Sen. Bob Menendez enters not guilty plea to latest criminal indictment

Menendez and his wife Nadine entered the pleas on Monday to a rewritten indictment containing new charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice.

2 years ago

Crime scene
Gun Violence
Philadelphia
Policing
6abc

2 arrested in connection to SEPTA bus stop shooting that injured 8 teens: sources

Northeast High School students have returned to class after the mass shooting injured 8 students.

2 years ago

Matt Platkin speaking at a podium.
New Jersey
Race & Ethnicity
Religion
Social Justice

New Jersey sees spike in incidents of bias in 2023

The number of incidents recorded is the highest the state has seen since record keeping began about 30 years ago.

2 years ago

Police officer at a crime scene
Crime
Gun Violence
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Transportation

Transit crime is back as a top concern in Philly and other U.S. cities, and political leaders have taken notice

The Pa. legislature created a special prosecutor to go after crimes committed in the transit system, and Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker promised to beef up police patrols.

2 years ago

Celena Morrison, Philadelphia's executive director of LGBT Affairs is arrested along with her husband following a traffic stop on I-76.
Philadelphia
Policing
Race & Ethnicity

Pa. trooper charged at Philly LGBTQ+ leader as she recorded traffic stop, lawyers say

The arrest made national headlines over the weekend and has prompted questions over the car stop and use of force.

2 years ago

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Celena Morrison, Philadelphia's executive director of LGBT Affairs is arrested along with her husband following a traffic stop on I-76.
LGBTQ
Philadelphia
Policing

Married LGBTQ leaders were taking car for repairs before their arrest in Philadelphia traffic stop

Celena Morrison, who leads the city’s Office of LGBT Affairs and is a top aide to Mayor Cherelle Parker, and her husband were detained Saturday for about 12 hours.

2 years ago

A housing unit in the west section of the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix
Criminal Justice
Incarceration
Philadelphia

Man freed from prison after 34 years after judge vacates conviction in 1990 murder

61-year-old Ronald Johnson was released from SCI-Phoenix on Monday night following a Philadelphia judge's decision and the prosecutor's move to dismiss charges.

2 years ago

A closeup of a Delaware State Police vehicle
Crime
Delaware

‘One child was near death’: Delaware woman sentenced to more than a century behind bars for abusing stepsons

The beatings and deprivation were captured on video cameras Mary and Charles Vinson put in the boys’ bedroom. Charles Vinson was sentenced to 49 years behind bars.

2 years ago

Krasner speaks at a podium
Criminal Justice
Gun Violence
Philadelphia
Policing
Public Safety

‘We will get the just and appropriate results’: Philly’s DA continues to weigh charges in car stop arrest, fatal bus stop shooting

The Philadelphia DA is vowing to get to the bottom of Monday’s quintuple shooting, and a car stop Saturday that involved a member of the Mayor’s administration.

2 years ago

File photo: Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., listens during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Criminal Justice
Government Accountability
New Jersey

New obstruction of justice crimes levied against Sen. Bob Menendez in rewritten indictment

Menendez is accused of taking actions that benefited the governments of Egypt and Qatar to help two N.J. associates get financial deals linked to those two countries.

2 years ago

Dartmouth's Romeo Myrthil (20) stands next to Duke's Caleb Foster (1) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Durham, N.C., Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. A ruling that gives the Dartmouth basketball team the right to unionize has far-reaching implications for all of college sports — from the quaint, academically oriented Ivy League to the big-money football factories like Michigan and Alabama. But it’s not time to cut down the nets just yet.
Employment
Higher Education
National
Sports

Dartmouth men’s basketball team votes to unionize, though steps remain in forming labor union

The players voted 13-2 to join Service Employees International Union Local 560, which already represents some Dartmouth workers.

2 years ago

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk addresses the European Jewish Association's conference, Jan. 22, 2024, in Krakow, Poland. Former senior executives of Twitter filed suit against Musk and X Corp. on Monday, March 4, saying they are entitled to more than $128 million total in unpaid severance payments.
Business
National
Technology

Former Twitter executives sue Elon Musk over firings, seek more than $128 million in severance

The lawsuit says not paying severance and bills is part of a pattern for Musk.

2 years ago

Joshua Levy, acting U.S. Attorney district of Massachusetts (left) faces reporters as Matthew Olsen, assistant attorney general justice department's national security division (center) and Nadine Pellegrini, chief of national security at the U.S Attorney's office (right) look on during a news conference, Monday, March 4, 2024, in Boston. Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira plead guilty in federal court Monday to leaking highly classified military documents about Russia's war in Ukraine and other national security secrets. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Government Accountability
Military
National

Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira pleads guilty under a deal that calls for at least 11 years in prison

Teixeira pleaded guilty in Boston’s federal court Monday to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act.

2 years ago

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