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Community

10-year-old boy behind South Jersey school shooting threat; situation at Cumberland Community College resolved

The school shooting threat was linked back to a 10-year-old student. And just after 11 a.m., Cumberland County College in Vineland, New Jersey, lifted its lockdown.

7 years ago

 Persons walk in and out of a Walmart store, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, in Dallas. (Tony Gutierrez/AP Photo)
Community

Walmart sets age of 21 to buy firearms, ammunition

Walmart said its decision came after the company reviewed its firearm sales policy in light of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.

7 years ago

Cherry Hill Mayor Chuck Cahn joins the more than 200 in attendance at the Cherry Hill school board meeting Tuesday night, where a long list of speakers sounded off about school security and administrative gaffes at Cherry Hill East High School. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
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Following student protests, Cherry Hill mayor favors armed security in schools

But Mayor Chuck Cahn says he does not support arming teachers.

7 years ago

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 In this April 12, 2016 file photo, Sen. Patrick J. Toomey, R-Pa. speaks to reporters outside his office on Capitol Hill, in Washington. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo, File)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

Toomey proposes moderate gun control, tangles with Trump

In the meeting, Trump bucked the GOP line and appeared to come to a position on gun control that is well outside Toomey's — and most Republicans' — comfort zone.

7 years ago

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Activists call for more support for Puerto Ricans displaced by Hurricane Maria during a rally at Thomas Paine Plaza. They are joined by Carlos Torres (left), Muriel Rivera and her son, Yeriel, 6, (center left), and Melanie Garcia and her three children (center right), who all face eviction.
PlanPhilly
Community

A new group promises long-term support for Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees

This is a first step towards creating the long-term recovery strategy that city officials and community advocates have struggled to create in the five months since the storm.

7 years ago

Gun control protest
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Helen Ubiñas: Gun control and everyday violence must not be ignored

Ubiñas, a longtime commentator on gun violence in Philadelphia, read her column, "Everyday gun violence must be part of gun control reckoning," on NewsWorks Tonight.

7 years ago

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Gov. John Carney takes part in a mindfulness exercise with students at Mt. Pleasant Elementary School in Wilmington. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Education

Teaching kids to deal with stress as part of answer to school violence, Carney says

When it comes to making schools safer, Delaware Gov. John Carney says teaching kids how to deal with the stress of life is an important element.

7 years ago

Central York District parent Linda Veras-Lopez, (center), leans her head on her 14-year-old son Tyler Shields' shoulder during a press conference outside the Springettsbury Township Police Department Thursday. Veras-Lopez said she plans to attend every press conference because she wants updates on the police investigation into threats made to the school district earlier this week. (Chris Dunn/York Daily Record)
WITF
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

In wake of Florida shooting, Pa. schools and police are on high alert

In York County, Central York School District has been closed for two days as police seek to learn who posted threatening messages online.

7 years ago

US soldiers stand attention during a ceremony marking Memorial Day at the Resolute Support main headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 25, 2015. (Allauddin Khan/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Trump’s reality check: A combat soldier says arming teachers is ‘asinine’

Trump is still abuzz about arming teachers. For the second straight day, he played the monkey to the NRA organ grinder. Let's rebut his blather with the help of a soldier.

7 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy  (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

New Jersey joins three other states in ‘gun safety’ coalition

A task force will trace and intercept illegal guns and focus on sharing information about individuals who might pose a threat.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump hosts a listening session with high school students, teachers, and others
National Interest
Politics & Policy

The very stable genius wants schools to lock and load

So Trump wants to arm the teachers, to militarize the schools. Naturally, he plucked that beaut straight from the NRA playbook.

7 years ago

An aerial view of the site of an early morning train crash Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018 between an Amtrak train, bottom right, and a CSX freight train, top left, in Cayce, SC. The Amtrak passenger train slammed into a freight train in the early morning darkness Sunday, killing at least two Amtrak crew members and injuring more than 110 people, authorities said.  (Jeff Blake/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

Philly area lawmakers oppose Trump plan to cut Amtrak funding

The budget plan proposes cutting in half the federal subsidy for Amtrak, including slicing grants to the Northeast Corridor by $128 million.

7 years ago

Listen 5:00
In this Jan. 12, 2018 photo, a woman wears a gun in a holster next to two copies of the U.S. Constitution during a gun rights rally at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash.
Politics & Policy

‘Red flag’ firearm-restraining legislation considered in New Jersey, Delaware

The measures allow family members and law enforcement agents to petition a judge to restrict a person’s access to guns — if they believe that person could be a threat.

7 years ago

The Rev. Nicolas O'Rourke, of the Living Water United Church of Christ in Northeast Philadelphia, says a prayer for the victims of gun violence during a vigil for the Parkland, Florida, school shooting victims.
Community

At Philly vigil for Florida shooting victims, a call for tougher gun laws

Naiser Robinson, 17, said hearing about the Florida shooting made him think of his friend Cece Johnson who was 16 when he was caught in a fatal crossfire.

7 years ago

New Washington, Ohio, Chief of Police Scott Robertson talks with fourth grade students as they huddle in closet a during a lockdown drill at the St. Bernard School in New Washington, Ohio, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. A month after the shootings of 20 students and six educators a the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., St. Bernard School principal Susan Maloy, inspired by the memories of those who lost their lives, has decided to hold lockdown drills on the 14th of each month to refine a safety plan and increase school security. (Craig Ruttle/AP Photo)
Community

A fire alarm sounds, then gunfire erupts: Stay or flee?

As in many U.S. schools, students and teachers at the school had trained for both responses, just not at the same time.

7 years ago

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