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Pennsylvania

State police will now be required to make more visits to schools. (AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Pa. state police upping presence in certain schools

New rules will require more frequent visits to schools in areas that don't have their own police departments, and so they rely on state police for coverage.

8 years ago

Cells are shown at the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017 (Marc Levy/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Pa., an outlier in life-without-parole, faces growing push for change

Pennsylvania sentences more people to life in prison without the possibility of parole than any other state.

8 years ago

Mariner East 2 pipeline construction in Lebanon County
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Cumberland County criticizes Mariner East 2 pipeline builder for dodging safety questions

Cumberland County’s commissioners are accusing the company building the Mariner East 2 pipeline of ignoring residents’ safety concerns about its new natural gas liquids line.

8 years ago

The State Correctional Institution at Phoenix is in Collegeville. On its own, Pennsylvania sentences more prisoners to life terms than any country in the world. (Jacqueline Larma/AP file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Pennsylvania leads world in imposing life sentences

Life without parole applies automatically to first- and second-degree murder, and sometimes to third-degree murder.

8 years ago

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Toomey lauds Senate’s passage of sweeping opioid crisis legislation

The wide-ranging package known as the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 rolls up 70 bills that will be backed by about $5 billion in funding.

8 years ago

Scott Wallace, the Democratic candidate in the newly drawn 8th Congressional District (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

‘False’ accusation, labor endorsements in Bucks County congressional race

Fact-checkers flag an attack ad against Democrat Scott Wallace; his opponent, Brian Fitzpatrick, gets a valuable labor endorsement.

8 years ago

Online schooling (Photo Courtesy/BigStock)
Philly Parenting
Lifestyle

Why we chose online school for our teen

Anyone who’s ever heard me stumble through trying to explain the identifiable traits of a mammal, watched me do 5th grade math, or list ...

8 years ago

Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati opposes legislation that would would open a two-year window for lawsuits in child sexual abuse cases where the statute of limitations has expired. He argues that would be unconstitutional. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. Senate leader proposes bill to open primary elections

Scarnati is saying he's concerned closed primaries are making both parties more extreme.

8 years ago

Tim Huenke is a restorative luthier and owner of Superior Guitar Works in Flourtown. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Instruments in need of more than just TLC are brought back to life by Montco luthier

NewsWorks Tonight’s Dave Heller visited the workshop of restorative luthier, Tim Huenke, who owns and operates Superior Guitar Works in Flourtown, Pa.

8 years ago

Listen 7:01
Cells are shown at the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017 (Marc Levy/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

As Pa. overhauls prison book policies, inmates’ rights groups cry foul

All books will now have to go through the Department of Corrections.

8 years ago

GOP candidate for Pennsylvania governor, Scott Wagner (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Scott Wagner proposes plan to combat opioid crisis

Wagner said that Gov. Tom Wolf has not done enough to combat the opioid epidemic.

8 years ago

President Barack Obama speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015.  Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa. is at right.  (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Obama to stump for Democrats in Philadelphia rally

Obama will headline a Sept. 21 rally in Philadelphia to boost the re-election campaigns of Sen. Casey and Gov. Wolf.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Pa. elections

Guests: Stephen Medvic, Chris Potter We’re going to discuss Pennsylvania politics and the mid-term election ...

Air Date: September 13, 2018 10:40 am

Listen 18:32
The United States Capitol building against a blue sky
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Outside groups spend $4.3M on Philly-area congressional races

SuperPACs focus on four of the 15 congressional races in the region.

8 years ago

Listen 3:26
A truck delivers fracking wastewater to a Susquehanna County recycling center
Politics & Policy

Environmentalists urge Gov. Murphy to ban fracking waste from entering New Jersey

New Jersey lawmakers passed a bill in 2014 to ban fracking waste, but former Gov. Chris Christie vetoed it.

8 years ago

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