NewsWorks Tonight July 24, 2017 – Full Show

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    Joel Wolfram reports Conrail is planning to clean up a drug infested stretch of train track, though some worry the displaced users will simply relocate elsewhere in the Philadelphia neighborhood.  Bobby Allyn reports Philadelphia is using its civil asset forfeiture program to fund departments other than the District Attorney’s Office.  Cartoon caption writer Janis Chakars joins us to discuss his new book “No Love for the Penguin: Cartoons Rejected by the New Yorker.”  Laura Benshoff reports on the spike in murders in Chester, Pennsylvania.  And Franklin Institute Chief Astronomer Derrick Pitts tracks the New Horizon spacecraft.

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