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Public Safety

The Cape May-Lewes Ferry (Elisabeth Perez-Luna/WHYY)
Community

Cape May-Lewes Ferry stranded for hours in Delaware Bay

An engine malfunction on a ferry running from New Jersey to Delaware left more than 100 passengers stranded for several hours.

7 years ago

As a boy, Yuji Onuma won a contest to create the town slogan for Futaba, Japan. His phrase --
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

‘I am the witness’: Post-Fukushima, a Japanese man’s regrets mirror his country’s turn against nuclear power

In Fukushima, farmers and residents put their stock in solar.

7 years ago

Listen 6:48
Students hold up signs denouncing Policy 805 prior to the Board’s yes vote that led students and faculty to temporarily shut down the school board meeting.  (Darryl Murphy/WHYY)
Education

Student protesters shut down Philly school board meeting over metal detector vote

The Philadelphia school board voted to require metal detectors at all district high schools; protesters then took over the meeting

7 years ago

Audrey Glickman, a congregant from the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and a survivor of last October's mass shooting. She will will play the shofar in the Philadelphia Orchestra's premiere of Healing Tones. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Tree of Life Synagogue joins Philly Orchestra for ‘Healing Tones’

The premiere of “Healing Tones,” by composer Hannibal Lokumbe, will feature a member of the Pittsburgh synagogue where a mass shooting happened last year playing a shofar.

7 years ago

Listen 4:05
In this May 22, 2017 file photo shown is the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa.. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Radio Times
Science

Three Mile Island anniversary and the future of nuclear power

On the 40th anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, we look back at the disaster and discuss the effect it had on the nuclear power industry then and now.

Air Date: March 28, 2019 10:00 am

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Protestors carry signs as they attend a rally on Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, in Pittsburgh. The protesters, many openly carrying guns, gathered in downtown Pittsburgh to rally against the city council's proposed restrictions and banning of semi-automatic rifles, certain ammunition and firearms accessories within city limits. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pittsburgh City Council preliminarily approves controversial gun legislation

The bills, which will likely face a court challenge, would ban the use of semi-automatic weapons, assault-style rifles and similar firearms.

7 years ago

James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna is currently locked down due to what the Delaware Department of Correction is calling an emergency situation. (Licensed under Creative Commons)
Courts & Law

Two years after fatal prison riot, 700 cameras installed in Delaware’s largest prison

More than two years after the death of correctional officer Lt. Steven Floyd, 714 security cameras are in place throughout the Vaughn Correctional Center.

7 years ago

Special Counsel Robert Mueller walks past the White House after attending services at St. John's Episcopal Church, in Washington, Sunday, March 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Radio Times
Courts & Law

Mueller report summary; holding gun makers accountable

We discuss Attorney General William Barr's summary letter of Special Counsel Mueller's report. Then, a recent decision opening gun manufacturers to liable.

Air Date: March 26, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:46
Jorge Zapata, Jr., center, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, holds candles with his mother Lavinia Zapata, and father Jorge Zapata, Sr., during a candlelight vigil for the victims of the Wednesday shooting at the school, in Parkland, Fla., Thursd
Community

Linked by pain: 2 school massacre survivors, dad kill selves

The father of a Sandy Hook victim killed himself Monday, just days after two Stoneman Douglas students also took their lives.

7 years ago

A sign stands outside the Glen Mills Schools in Glen Mills, Pa.
Education

Pa. DHS orders ’emergency removal’ of children at Glen Mills

Pa. officials have ordered the "emergency removal" of all children remaining in the oldest reform school in the country.

7 years ago

This June 18, 2018, file photo shows an aerial view of the Amelia neighborhood in the municipality of Catano, east of San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Dennis M. Rivera/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Disaster aid bill facing a tricky path as it heads to Senate

At stake is $13.5 billion emergency relief legislation to help southern farmers, rebuild hurricane-damaged military bases and repair water systems.

7 years ago

Artwork by Christina Chung. (Christina Chung for NPR)
NPR
Community

What makes people heed a weather warning … or not?

Even an unprecedented twister can be predicted. The issue is how people interpret these warnings.

7 years ago

This undated photo provided by the Office of Attorney General of New Jersey shows parts of guns confiscated after being sold by mail order from a California company. New Jersey's attorney general announced a lawsuit Friday, March 22, 2019, against the California company that sells mail-order firearms parts that can be turned into working weapons, the first such action the state has taken since it banned so-called
Courts & Law

New Jersey sues California company over ‘ghost guns’

The company was sent a letter in December asking it to "stop advertising, offering for sale, and/or selling 'ghost guns' and 'ghost gun' parts to New Jersey residents."

7 years ago

File photo: Sunoco's Mariner East 2 pipeline construction on Pennell Road in Middletown Township. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

New safety concerns over Sunoco’s Mariner East 2X pipeline

Pipeline safety advocates worry the pressure on the 16-inch Mariner East 2x would pose greater dangers.

7 years ago

Corl Street Elementary, in State College, is receiving extensive renovations, all done with safety in mind. (Emily Reddy/WPSU)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

How school construction is changing due to security concerns

In this time of mass shootings, schools are feeling the pressure to make changes to how schools are constructed in an effort to keep intruders out.

7 years ago

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