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John Raines and his wife, Bonnie, at their home in Philadelphia in September. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

John Raines, who helped expose FBI spying with 1971 burglary, leaves legacy of activism

The burglary in Media, Pennsylvania, exposed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's spying on protest groups, and it forever changed the way the agency conducted its investigations.

8 years ago

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chester high school
Courts & Law

Chester basketball coach sues city, claiming police brutality

An assistant basketball coach has filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit claiming he was wrongly arrested and shocked with a stun gun after he hit a parked car last year.

8 years ago

Bradock Mayor John Fetterman meets with reporters to talk about his run for Pennsylvania lieutenant governor at the Down Home Diner at Reading Terminal Market
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Fetterman in race for Pa. lieutenant governor

Fetterman, who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate last year, is now gunning for the post of lieutenant governor in 2018.

8 years ago

A map of the 7th congressional district as drawn in 2011. The district incorporates most of Delaware County and portions of Chester, Montgomery, Berks and Lancaster Counties. (Dan Gleiter/pennlive.com)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Touring Pa.’s 7th congressional district, one of the nation’s most gerrymandered

Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional district, which has an eye-popping shape that spans five counties, has been described in terms of a Disney cartoon: Goofy kicking Donald Duck.

8 years ago

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Pennsylvania's congressional map as drawn in 2011. In 2018, it was deemed an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander by the Pa. Supreme Court (Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Two fast-tracked court cases could change the political face of Pennsylvania

With drastic changes to Pennsylvania's political landscape hanging in the balance, two lawsuits challenging the state's congressional map are moving forward at rapid speed.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania Speaker of the House Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny.  (Matt Rourke/AP)
Politics & Policy

Turzai announces run for Pa. governor

The Pittsburgh-area lawmaker is now the fourth GOP challenger to Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, who’s seeking a second term in 2018.

8 years ago

This photo shows an Amtrak train following a crash Sunday, April 3, 2016, in Chester, Pa. Amtrak said the train was heading from New York to Savannah, Ga., when it struck a backhoe outside of Philadelphia. (Glenn R. Hills Jr via A
Courts & Law

NTSB: Amtrak at fault for ’16 Chester rail crash that killed two

An Amtrak passenger train struck a backhoe on the tracks, resulting in the death of two maintenance workers and injuries for 39 passengers in April 2016.

8 years ago

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Gov. Tom Wolf intends to borrow from Pennsylvania's Tobacco Settlement Fund to balance the books. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. to fill budget holes by borrowing against tobacco fund

The loan from the Tobacco Settlement Fund will give the commonwealth money to balance its books up front. It will be paid back over several decades.

8 years ago

The Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery accounts for almost 16 percent of the city's carbon footprint, according to a City report that describes how to make deep cuts in carbon emissions.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Philadelphia explains how it would make deep cut in carbon emissions

8 years ago

The term 'gerrymandering' was coined by the Boston Gazette in 1812 for Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry who signed off on a bill that distorted the state's congressional district into twisted and disjointed shapes.
WITF
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Listen to Smart Talk discuss ‘Over The Line?’ series

We discuss how Pennsylvania's congressional districts came to look like a Rorschach test, the effect on elections and policy and the impact on the citizenry.

8 years ago

A bicyclist rides past Pennsylvania State University's shuttered Beta Theta Pi fraternity house Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, in State College, Pa. Centre County, Pa., District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller announced Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, that more charges have been filed against fraternity brothers after investigators recovered deleted surveillance video footage recorded before the Feb. 4, 2017, death of 19-year-old Tim Piazza, of Lebanon, N.J., after a night of heavy drinking.
Courts & Law

Video recovered, 10 more charged in Penn State frat death

Investigators are filing new charges after recovering deleted security camera footage taken in a Penn State fraternity house the night a pledge suffered fatal injuries.

8 years ago

FILE - In this May 1966 file photo, a U.S. Air Force C-123 flies low along a South Vietnamese highway spraying defoliants on dense jungle growth beside the road to eliminate ambush sites for the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam War, Air Force C-123 planes sprayed millions of gallons of herbicides over the jungles of Southeast Asia to destroy enemy crops and tree cover. The military stopped the spraying by early 1971, but some Air Force Reserve units continued to fly the former spray planes until the early 1980s. Some veterans who flew in those planes after the war have been getting sick, and like many Vietnam veterans, they’re blaming the herbicides they say still coated the planes for decades. Their crusade has been led by a former Oregon resident and Air Force veteran.(AP Photo/Department of Defense, File)
WPSU
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

50 Years After The Vietnam War, Veterans Law Clinic Helps Agent Orange Victims

8 years ago

Workers unload pipes at a staging area in Worthing, S.D., for the 1,130-mile Dakota Access Pipeline. A new report says the nation's new natural gas pipeline capacity resulting from a building boom is far more than is needed.
StateImpact
Science

New gas pipeline capacity sharply exceeds consumption, report says

8 years ago

(WHYY, file)
Money

Taxes in Pa. on cell phone service among highest in U.S.

The average rates of taxes and fees on wireless telephone services are more than two times higher than average sales tax rates that apply to most other taxable goods.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania state Sen. Scott Wagner, who is running for the GOP gubernatorial nomination next year, has been urging fellow Republicans not to support a natural gas severance tax — in part because he thinks it would help Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf politically. (AP file photo)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Wagner: Too Trumpish for Pennsylvania?

After last week's Democratic wins, some Republicans worry state Sen. Scott Wagner is too Trumpish to win next year's Pennsylvania governor's race.

8 years ago

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