NewsWorks Tonight, February 28, 2018

Listen 22:14

U.S. Senator Pat Toomey announces a bipartisan plan to promote new gun control measures. Congressional candidates in Pennsylvania struggle to campaign in the midst of uncertainty over district maps.  Cherry Hill’s mayor discusses school safety. And we hear the Civil War story of how a Philadelphia shopkeeper almost brought down the Confederate treasury.

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