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Pennsylvania utility regulator sharpens focus on cybersecurity threats

Pennsylvania's utility regulator has created a new office to deal specifically with cybersecurity threats.

7 years ago

On a tour of the energy facilities in Salem Township, Forbes Road Volunteer Fire Department Chief Bob Rosatti stops at a Mariner East 2 construction site. The Slickville Volunteer Fire Department would have jurisdiction over an incident here, but the Forbes Road department — just six miles south — would provide mutual aid, Rosatti said. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
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StateImpact Pennsylvania

First responders near pipeline prep for an unlikely event: ‘One hell of a boom’

Recent pipeline explosions near Pittsburgh tested firefighters, police.

7 years ago

Mayor Jim Kenney (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Money

Mayor Kenney vows to clean up audit issues over DNC security funds

He's promising all the money will be accounted for.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania's Capitol building (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

House passes gun-restricting domestic violence bill. It’s an outlier.

The bill was initially expected to pass last June, before the legislature wrapped up for the summer.

7 years ago

New Castle County police chief Col. Vaughn Bond announces that Kwesi Hudson, 47, has been charged in a series of sexual assaults and robberies involving female victims. (Zoë Read/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Man charged with series of Delaware sexual assaults, robberies

A 47-year-old Claymont-area man has been charged for a series of sexual assaults and robberies involving female victims in suburban New Castle County.

7 years ago

30th Street Station (File: Catalina Jaramillo/WHYY)
Community

7-year-old boy dies in fall from moving subway car

Police say a 7-year-old boy who was selling candy on a Philadelphia train with his brother fell between two moving subway cars and died. ...

7 years ago

A kayaker died Tuesday in Brandywine Creek near the North Market Street Bridge, just outside downtown Wilmington. (Google Maps)
Community

Police identify 54-year kayaker who died in Brandywine

Update: September 24, 2018  The kayaker who drowned has been identified by police as 54-year-old James Battan. ...

7 years ago

SEPTA Ambassador Carrie Givhan demonstrates CPR on a dummy at Jefferson Station. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Health

Now arriving at SEPTA stations, quick CPR classes

At its most essential: Call 911, and push hard and fast in the center of the chest.

7 years ago

Lydia Adorno and her children Brian and Diane at their new apartment in North Philadelphia. They evacuated Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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One year after Hurricane Maria, Philly a model for recovery

In the wake of Hurricane Maria, Lydia Adorno and her family came from Manatí, a municipality in the northern coast of Puerto Rico. They now have a row home in NW Philly.

7 years ago

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Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan speaks about the shooting at Bellingham Retirement Community on East Boot Road in East Goshen Township, Pa., Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. Authorities are searching for a man who they say shot at his ex-wife and then killed his parents at the retirement center. Hogan says authorities are looking for 59-year-old Bruce Rogal of Glenmoore. (Pete Bannen/Daily Local News via AP)
Courts & Law

Chester County DA: Man who shot at ex, killed parents is found dead

Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said during a media briefing early Thursday that 59-year-old Bruce Rogal was dead after a manhunt and a police chase.

7 years ago

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.

7 years ago

There is a push to get a crosswalk or some other safety improvement to the entrance of The Woodlands, which sits across Woodland Avenue from the 40th Street SEPTA trolley portal. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
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PlanPhilly

Petition wants to make visiting the dead at Woodlands Cemetery safer for the living

More than 1,000 people have signed a petition calling for street safety improvements along Woodland Avenue.

7 years ago

A man peers from his flooded home in Lumberton, N.C., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
Science

Florence death toll swells as rivers rise

"The risk to life is rising with the angry waters," North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper declared as the storm's death toll climbed to 15.

7 years ago

Avalon's new weather station is mounted high above rooflines for accurate information (Borough of Avalon)
Science

Avalon adds high-tech weather equipment for real-time storm information

Avalon has invested in tracking equipment that will allow it to make weather conditions easily available to residents of the borough at t ...

7 years ago

James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Delaware (WHYY, file)
Politics & Policy

Key Delaware lawmakers oppose ‘shell game’ of moving prisoners out of state

Looking to reduce $400,000 a week in corrections overtime, Gov. John Carney is mulling the mass move of up to 600 inmates.

7 years ago

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