NewsWorks Tonight September 26, 2017

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Dave Davies reports critics and proponents of Philadelphia’s sweetened beverage tax are still spending millions of dollars on ads to convince the public it’s a good or bad idea.  Joe Hernandez offers an update from the corruption trial of New Jersey US Senator Bob Menendez.  Peter Crimmins reports a permanent sculpture honoring Octavius Catto was unveiled at Market and South Broad Streets in Philadelphia today.  NewsWorks Tonight Host Dave Heller spoke with reporters Ryan Briggs and Max Marin about the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office’s practice of civil asset forfeiture.  Sara Hoover reports a new documentary looks at the “digital divide” among public schools.  And Annette John-Hall talks to members of the group that in 1971 changed the course of America’s most powerful law enforcement agency: the FBI.

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