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NewsWorks Tonight, July 30, 2018

Pennsylvania and New Jersey’s Attorneys General try to block 3-D guns from being downloaded in their states. Shanita Hubbard discus ...

Air Date: July 30, 2018

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Extreme risk protection laws give families an avenue to temporarily seize guns from a person in crisis. (Lisa Marie Pane/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. GOP lawmaker cajoling colleagues to join ‘red flag’ bill

Five states have similar laws in effect, and around thirty more are considering them.

7 years ago

The South Pool of New York's 9/11 Memorial, which honors victims of the attacks. On Wednesday, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, announced it identified the remains of Scott Michael Johnson, a 26-year-old securities analyst. (Craig Ruttle/AP Photo)
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9/11 victim identified, nearly 17 years later

About 40 percent of victims still await identification.

7 years ago

A volunteer hauls a hose past flooded homes as he and others help pump water out Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in Tremont, Pa. Days of drenching rains are closing roads, sending creeks and streams over their banks and prompting some evacuations in central Pennsylvania. (Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)
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Pa. officials preach caution, but say worst of flood likely over

One hundred and twenty five state roads are still flooded, and 2,900 people remain without power.

7 years ago

Actor and comedian Bill Cosby reacts while being notified that the verdict was in during his sexual assault retrial, Thursday, April, 26, 2018, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. (Mark Makela/Pool Photo via AP)
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Board recommends Bill Cosby be found a sexually violent predator

Cosby is scheduled for sentencing Sept. 24. A message was left with his lawyer.

7 years ago

Training on how to spot human trafficking is given not only to doctors and nurses but also to registration and reception staff, social workers and security guards. (A-Digit/Getty Images)
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Hospitals gear up for new diagnosis: Human trafficking

According to a 2014 survey of about 100 survivors of sex trafficking, 88 percent said that while they were being trafficked they had contact with a health care provider.

7 years ago

A firefighter next to a house burning during a wildfire in Kineta, near Athens, Greece, on Monday. Wildfires are not new to Greece but several blazes erupted especially quickly. (Valerie Gache/AFP/Getty Images)
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Deadly wildfires sweep through towns near Athens, Greece

At least 50 people died and more than 150 were injured as huge fires fueled by powerful winds burned homes and forests in towns near the Greek capital, Athens.

7 years ago

Police officers walk the scene in the Greektown neighborhood of Toronto Sunday night. Police say a gunman opened fire on 14 people in a restaurant. Three people are dead including the gunman, police reported. (Cole Burston/AFP/Getty Images)
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Police: 2 victims are Dead, as is gunman, in Toronto shooting

Dozens of additional police officers were deployed in Toronto over the weekend in response to a spike in gun violence across the city in the Canadian province of Ontario.

7 years ago

Police officers use a mirror to see inside a Trader Joe's store in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles on Saturday. Police believe a man involved in the standoff with officers shot a young female and his grandmother before firing at officers during a pursuit, then crashing outside the supermarket and running inside the store. (Christian Dunlop/AP)
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Community

One dead, shooting suspect in custody after police standoff at LA Trader Joe’s

Police identified the suspect as a man about 28 years old, who surrendered three hours after barricading himself inside the store where other people had been trapped.

7 years ago

A duck boat sits idle in the parking lot of Ride the Ducks, an amphibious tour operator in Branson, Mo. Friday, July 20, 2018. The amphibious vehicle is similar to one of the company's boats that capsized the day before on Table Rock Lake resulting in 17 deaths. (Charlie Riedel/AP Photo)
Community

Survivors recount deadly Missouri duck boat sinking

A huge wave hit, scattering passengers on the vessel.

7 years ago

In this Dec. 4, 2014, file photo protesters rally in New York's Foley Square against a state grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner. (Jason DeCrow/AP Photo, File)
Courts & Law

NYPD officer faces police charges in Eric Garner’s chokehold death

The officials had been waiting to see whether federal prosecutors would bring criminal charges but decided to move forward.

7 years ago

 Stuffed animals and a sign at the Tyree Bates memorial. (Peter Tobia/for WHYY)
Community

Another shooting in Philadelphia, so where’s the outrage?

People are quick to point fingers and pass judgment, blaming lack of adult supervision, easy access to guns, a culture of gun violence, socioeconomic factors, etc.

7 years ago

Emergency workers patrol an area of Table Rock Lake in Branson, Mo., on Friday, a day after a duck boat capsized and sank during a storm. Authorities say 17 people died in the accident. (Charlie Riedel/AP)
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Community

17 dead after amphibious tour boat sinks in Missouri lake

17 people are dead after an amphibious tourist boat carrying 31 passengers capsized and sank Thursday during a severe squall in a lake in southern Missouri.

7 years ago

File photo: Philadelphia City Controller Rebecca Rhynhart (Lindsay Lazarski/WHY)
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Politics & Policy

Philly updates sexual harassment policy in wake of blistering audit

The audit found the city’s current policy neither prevents, nor protects victims of sexual misconduct or harassment.

7 years ago

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Traffic safety advocates form a
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Near a Center City Wawa, humans protect a bike lane, to make a larger point

A line, 25 deep, stretched out in front of the Wawa at 22nd and South streets Tuesday morning. They lined up on 22nd Street to form a “human-protected" bike lane.

7 years ago

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