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Public Safety

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

A courtroom sketch from November 2018 shows Cesar Sayoc who pleaded guilty in New York on Thursday to sending bombs to media figures and to critics of President Trump. (Elizabeth Williams/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Florida man pleads guilty to charges of mailing bombs to Trump critics

Cesar Altieri Sayoc, 56, was arrested in late October and was scheduled to go on trial in July.

7 years ago

A tribute for mosque shooting victim Tariq Omar is placed at the Botanical Gardens in Christchurch, New Zealand, Thursday, March 21, 2019. Thousands of people were expected to come together for an emotional Friday prayer service led by the imam of one of the two New Zealand mosques where 50 worshippers were killed in a white supremacist attack on Friday March 15. (Mark Baker/AP Photo)
Community
The Conversation

The politics of fear: How it manipulates us to tribalism

There is a longstanding history of the fear of “the others” turning humans into illogical ruthless weapons, in service to an ideology.

7 years ago

Police and emergency personnel stand at the 24 Oktoberplace intersection in Utrecht, where a shooting took place Monday. Several people were wounded in a shooting on a tram in the Dutch city.
NPR
Community

Utrecht shooting: Suspected gunman is arrested after manhunt; 3 died in tram attack

Dutch police are searching for the man who opened fire inside a tram in the city of Utrecht, killing three people and wounding nine others late Monday morning.

7 years ago

A school safety symposium held in Indiana, Pa. last week drew nearly 600 educators, superintendents, school resource officers, state police, and community members from around the state. (Courtesy of the Indiana Area School District)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

‘Hard’ and ‘soft’ school safety solutions on display at western Pa. conference

Presentations ran the gamut from so-called “soft” solutions like mental health counseling to “hard” solutions like metal detectors and armed staff.

7 years ago

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Coni Sanders, whose father was a teacher killed in the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School, poses for a photo at her home Saturday, March 16, 2019, in Denver. A growing movement is urging news organizations to avoid naming the gunmen responsible for mass shootings. The idea is to avoid inspiring more shooters who seek infamy and notoriety.
Community

Should media avoid naming the gunmen in mass shootings?

Critics say giving the assailants notoriety offers little to help understand the attacks and instead fuels celebrity-style coverage that encourages future attacks.

7 years ago

A message card is placed at a collection of flowers left at the Botanical Gardens in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Saturday. A 28-year-old white supremacist stood silently before a judge, accused in mass shootings at two mosques that left dozens of people dead. (Vincent Thian/AP Photo)
NPR
Community

A ‘mainstreaming of bigotry’ as white extremism reveals its global reach

In the aftermath of the New Zealand mosque shootings, experts who monitor hate groups say violent white extremism is on the rise and is the most prominent threat.

7 years ago

Residents pay their respects by placing flowers for the victims of the mosques attacks in Christchurch. (Michael Bradley/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

As families learn fates of loved ones, New Zealand mourns Christchurch victims

The New Zealand Red Cross has published a list of missing persons on its website.

7 years ago

This photo provided by by the French air accident investigation authority BEA on Thursday, March 14, 2019, shows one of the black box flight recorder from the crashed Ethiopian Airlines jet, in le Bourget, north of Paris. (BEA via AP)
Community

Paris investigators start studying Ethiopian jet’s recorder

Investigators have started studying the cockpit voice recorder of the crashed Ethiopian Airlines jet.

7 years ago

Chris Achenbach-Kimmel stands for a portrait at Elizabethtown College where she works.  (PA Post)
Health
PA Post

Thyroid cancer study re-ignites debate over Three Mile Island accident’s health effects

Although Pennsylvania has the nation’s highest rate of thyroid cancer, most of that cancer has nothing to do with Three Mile Island.

7 years ago

Harris Zafar, national spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, preaches a message of tolerance in response to anti-Muslim hate. (Courtesy of Harris Zafar/Philly Trib)
Community
The Philadelphia Tribune

American Muslims deal with being targets of hate

Harris Zafar, the national spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim communities, delivered a message of tolerance in response to the slaughter of fellow Muslims in two mosques.

7 years ago

A makeshift memorial is shown near the location where a mother and three young sons were struck and killed while trying to cross a busy highway after dark, Wednesday, July 17, 2013, in Philadelphia.  (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Philadelphia’s deadliest road is inching toward speed cameras

Philadelphia drivers can expect to see speed enforcement cameras on Roosevelt Boulevard by the end of the year, city officials said Thursday.

7 years ago

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