Public Safety
Hold the phone: Why some Philly students are stashing their phones at corner stores
Cell phones are banned at Kensington High School, so students are paying to stash their phones at corner stores. We break down the case for and against this new phenomenon.
Air Date: December 20, 2018
Listen 13:30N.J. comptroller: $250 million fund for firefighters sits unused
Tax money paid by New Jersey fire insurance policyholders into a fund meant to help the state’s firefighters largely goes unused.
5 years ago
Trump administration moves to ban bump stocks
The devices will be banned under a federal law that prohibits machine guns, according to a senior Justice Department official.
5 years ago
Red flag laws and the push for one in Pa., explained
In Maryland, a recent request to remove guns ended with a man's death.
5 years ago
After the Thousand Oaks’ shooting, a community-wide effort to memorialize and heal
No place in Thousand Oaks seems untouched by the shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill.
5 years ago
Four workers injured at gas plant blast near Pittsburgh
The blast happened shortly after 6 p.m. at MarkWest’s Houston Processing and Fractionation Facility at 800 Western Avenue in Chartiers Township.
5 years ago
Delaware inmates’ families, advocates grill officials about transfers to Pennsylvania
Delaware Gov. Carney and prison leaders are transferring up to 330 inmates to state prisons in Pennsylvania. Inmates' families and advocates grilled officials about the moves.
5 years ago
Democrats moving into House breathe new life into Toomey’s gun bill
The Toomey-Manchin gun control bill that fell just a few votes shy of passage after the Sandy Hook shooting may get a fresh chance in 2019.
5 years ago
Listen 4:43Labor leaders, city officials spar outside Council chambers
Sheet Metal Workers Local 19 attempted to push through a contested bill requiring costly new annual inspections of the fire protection devices mandated for most high-rise buil
5 years ago
Philly’s most dangerous roads clustered in black and brown neighborhoods
46 percent of Philly's most dangerous roads are in poor areas mostly populated by people of color, according to an analysis of city crash data done by the Bicycle Coalition.
5 years ago
New ‘Safe Corridors’ program brings parent patrols to opioid-plagued Kensington
The Philadelphia Resilience Project’s Safe Corridors initiative intends to make walks back and forth to school safer
5 years ago
Berks County law enforcement hope new technology can help curb gun violence
"Now, we can match those casings from one incident to the other, we can start putting those pieces together."
5 years ago
Philly’s forfeiture machine: How selling homes seized by cops hurt poor neighborhoods
Selling homes seized by law enforcement was supposed to improve communities. But a new WHYY investigation found it's added to blight in some of Philly's poorest neighborhoods.
Air Date: December 11, 2018
Listen 12:31Anti-Semitic papers reported near Pittsburgh shooting site, elsewhere
5 years ago
Life sentence for Delaware man who abducted, raped and tried to drown 4-year-old girl
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