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Pennsylvania

 Pennsylvania State House in Harrisburg, Pa (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Politics & Policy

Lawmakers edge closer to agreement on Pa. jobless system funding

A new plan passed through the House Labor and Industry Committee on Monday would give the unemployment compensation program $115.2 million, which would be gradually phased out

9 years ago

Pa. State Senator Judy Schwank
Courts & Law

Pa. lawmakers battle sexual misconduct with bill to ban settlement secrecy

Pa. Sen. Judy Schwank, D-Reading, has introduced a bill to ban nondisclosure agreements in sexual misconduct settlements.

9 years ago

Volunteers at Good Will Fire Company No. 2 help sort through donations for residents displaced by the five-alarm fire at Barclay Friends Senior Living Community in West Chester, Pa. (Shai Ben-Yaacov, WHYY)
Community

Community pitches in to support victims at Pa. senior living community

On Sunday, volunteers at the Good Will Volunteer Fire Company in West Chester sorted through large piles of donations for the roughly 160 residents displaced.

9 years ago

Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf (AP, file)
Politics & Policy

Wolf starting to look like ‘two-term Tom’ as 2018 approaches

Gov. Tom Wolf now heads into the 2018 election year with political winds at his back.

9 years ago

A University of Delaware study has found a 6 percent decline in the number of Delaware primary care doctors providing direct patient care from 2013 to 2018. (Rick Bowmer/AP, file)
Health

Pennsylvania wrestles with uncertainty over children’s health insurance funding

The Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, provides health coverage to millions of kids nationwide. But lawmakers have yet to reauthorize it.

9 years ago

 Cheyney University  (Emily Cohen for NewsWorks)
Education

Cheyney University gets one-year reprieve

The nation’s oldest historically black college will remain accredited after a state commission decide ...

9 years ago

(AP, file)
Politics & Policy

Next year’s Pa. budget projected to have $1 billion hole

Pennsylvania is already on track to have a significant budget gap to fill next year.

9 years ago

With smoke heavy in the air, a couple walks in the vicinity of a fire at the the Barclay Friends Senior Living Community in West Chester, Pa., Nov. 17. 2017. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

27 injured in fire at Pennsylvania senior living community

Officials say 27 people were treated for injuries after a fire ripped through a large nursing home complex in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Thursday night.

9 years ago

Listen 2:25
A truck delivers fracking wastewater to a Susquehanna County recycling center
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Lycoming County Waste Water Spill Tops 63,000 Gallons

9 years ago

 A bird’s eye view of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Johnstown residents bristle over town’s portrayal in recent viral article on Trump supporters

A widely shared article used Johnstown, Pennsylvania as a lens to showcase the loyalty of President Trump’s supporters. But local residents are balking at the portrait.

9 years ago

(Photo via ShutterStock)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Push for Pa. graduation standard delayed once again

Supporters of the Keystone Exams are grappling with the prospect that mandated statewide graduation standards are not to be.

9 years ago

A bust of Napoleon Bonaparte by Auguste Rodin is on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Lost Rodin bust finds a home in Philadelphia

A forgotten bust by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, hiding in plain sight in a small New Jersey town for 80 years, is now on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

9 years ago

Listen 2:08
Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg. (WITF)
Politics & Policy

Pa. Legislature has a $95M surplus, audit finds

This year’s review showed a smaller surplus than last year’s, with overall legislative reserves decreasing from $118 million last year, to around $95 million as of June.

9 years ago

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.

9 years ago

Listen 2:16
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.

9 years ago

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