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A police officer stands guard outside of the Historic Roebling Wire Works building on S. Clinton Avenue in Trenton, N.J. following a shooting at an all-night arts festival being held there. (Natalie Piserchio for WHYY)
Community

Trenton arts festival had been on the verge of being shut down before gunfire

Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri says it appears that several Trenton-area gangs had a dispute at the venue, and multiple suspects began shooting at each other.

7 years ago

Gov. Phil Murphy signs several gun-safety bills at the Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex Atrium in Trenton Wednesday. The half-dozen new gun-control laws tighten the state's already strict statutes. (Edwin J. Torres/New Jersey Governor's Office via AP)
Politics & Policy

Murphy expands N.J. gun control with six new laws

The measures include a background check requirement for private gun sales, a ban on armor-piercing bullets and a 10-round limit on gun magazine capacity.

7 years ago

Puerto Rican Nerybelle Perez poses with a portrait of her father, World War II veteran Efrain Perez, who died after his ambulance was turned away from the island's largest public hospital when it had no electricity or water following Hurricane Maria. (Carlos Giusti/AP)
NPR
Community

Puerto Rico releases data on hundreds of deaths following Hurricane Maria

The island's government still lists the official death toll from the hurricane as 64 despite evidence that it's vastly under-counted.

7 years ago

The deadly fire that engulfed 1855 N. 21st St. began on the second floor.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Small post-fire rooming-house reforms advance in City Council

Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses and Inspections has been pushing for legislative reforms to change how the city regulates group living facilities.

7 years ago

Karmeea Chisolm tells the crowd, “Don’t be fooled by the term ‘mass shooting.' Every life matters,” at the demonstration against gun violence Monday. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Philly students take steps to demand action on gun violence

Annual demonstration brings hundreds of young people to Philadelphia Museum of Art steps to call for changes in gun laws.

7 years ago

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This screen capture from the CrimeMapping website shows recent incidents of crime in Wilmington. (CrimeMapping.com)
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New Wilmington crime mapping tool aims at improving transparency

The city of Wilmington has launched an online crime mapping program aimed at improving transparency, and the police department’s interaction with the public.

7 years ago

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Courts & Law

Man displayed ‘disturbing’ sign referencing bomb in Wildwood, police say

A Pennsylvania man was arrested Monday morning after displaying a sign referencing a bomb in a Wildwood supermarket parking lot, authorit ...

7 years ago

A group of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students arrive for a news conference, Monday, June 4, 2018, in Parkland, Fla. A day after graduating from high school, the group of Florida school shooting survivors has announced a multistate bus tour to
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Parkland students to make bus tour to register young voters

A day after graduating, a group of Florida high school shooting survivors announced they'll spend their summer crisscrossing the country

7 years ago

A police officer secures the block as investigators survey a demolition site that turned deadly at the corner of Jefferson and Bailey Streets in North Philadelphia on June 04, 2018.  (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Community

1 worker dead after building partially collapses in Philly

Authorities say a contractor died after a North Philadelphia building partially collapsed, trapping him and another worker.

7 years ago

Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

A novelist and psychiatrist reflect on school shootings

Guests: Tom McAllister, Steven Berkowitz The aftermath of a school shooting is the subject of Philadelphia author ...

Air Date: June 4, 2018 10:00 am

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Nekia Pressley was accused of stealing a hoagie as she carried a package with prescription medication. (Darryl C. Murphy for WHYY)
Community

Not just Starbucks: Shopping while black

Being a black, Muslim woman who wears a hijab, this isn’t the first time Nekia Pressley has faced discrimination

7 years ago

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Water moves past a car swept into the riverbank and smashed by a fallen tree is shown just off Main Street in flood-ravaged Ellicott City, Md., Monday, May 28, 2018. Sunday's destructive flooding left the former mill town heartbroken as it had bounded back from another destructive storm less than two years ago. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
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Rescuers seeking 1 man still missing in Maryland flooding

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) — One man remained missing after flash flooding tore down historic Main Street in Ellicott City, Maryland, and ...

7 years ago

Two people were injured in a shooting at a suburban Indianapolis middle school. The suspect is in custody. (WRTV)
Community

Student says science teacher tackled Indiana school shooter

A male student opened fire at a suburban Indianapolis middle school Friday morning, wounding another student and a teacher before being taken into custody, authorities said.

7 years ago

Emergency room doctors from the University of Colorado School of Medicine take part in a new kind of firearm training. (Courtesy of Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine)
The Pulse
Health

To better counsel patients, doctors try handling firearms themselves

Emergency medicine doctor Emmy Betz wanted to get more comfortable with guns. Pistol instructor and family physician Michael Victoroff had a proposal for her.

7 years ago

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U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey urged her colleagues in the House to take action on gun-safety legislation rather than staging moments of silence for victims of mass shootings.  (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Moment of silence won’t save lives, N.J. congresswoman shouts. ‘Do something!’

It was as if 'God kicked her out of her seat,' and U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman heard herself yelling.

7 years ago

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