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Twelve-year-old Jarryn Myers prepares to pitch. Two years ago, Myers lost his father to a heroin overdose. Jarryn helped police to find the man who sold his dad the fatal dose. (Brett Sholtis/Transforming Health)
NewsWorks Tonight
Courts & Law
Transforming Health

Charging drug dealers for overdose deaths is controversial. For one family, it brought justice

Since 2013, district attorneys have filed the charge at least 412 times, according to March 2018 data from the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts.

7 years ago

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Vincent Turcotte and Valérie Hayes are both ice storm babies, born shortly after a massive storm debilitated their city. Scientists are trying to figure out if the stress their mothers experienced during the natural disaster has helped shape who they are as people. (Courtesy of Julie Groleau.)
The Pulse
Health

Does a mom’s stress affect her offspring for generations?

Researchers are studying the factors that can make epigenetic changes to DNA. A mom's stress, diet and daily habits may become an inheritance of sorts for her kids.

7 years ago

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Physiological psychologist Leslie Stein tips back a sip of PTC, a chemical cousin to a compound found in Brussels sprouts. Stein finds the flavor unpleasant, while others find it intollerably bitter, and to some its taste is neutral. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Same genes, different tastes

Researchers say environmental factors could explain why some identical twins taste things differently

7 years ago

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Families gather in the Great Stair Hall at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for ArtSplash, a kid-friendly summer program that is having extraordinary success.
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Art Museum summer program caters to young Modernists

The Philadelphia Museum of Art's summertime Art Splash program takes cues from urban Modernism.

7 years ago

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Renee Tartaglione exits the federal courthouse in Philadelphia Wednesday. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Courts & Law

Renee Tartaglione sentenced to nearly 7 years in prison for defrauding nonprofit

The sentence was far less than a punishment at the statutory maximum of 15 years of imprisonment.

7 years ago

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Biologist Jessy Bokvist holds a coho salmon tissue sample in a lab at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Before DNA can be analyzed, Bokvist has to isolate it from tissue samples. (courtesy of Molly Segal)
The Pulse
Science

Epigenetics may hold answers to the survival of hatchery-born salmon

Coho salmon born in captivity are less likely to survive than those born in the wild, and scientists think captivity may be to blame.

7 years ago

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City Controller Rebecca Rhynhart announces an audit of the PPA as Pa. Auditor General Eugene DePasquale looks on
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

City Controller takes aim at Parking Authority’s spending

City Controller Rebecca Rhynhart announced her office would audit the Philadelphia Parking Authority’s on-street parking enforcement expenses

7 years ago

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Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., left, listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with lawmakers about trade policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, in Washington.
Politics & Policy

U.S. Senate approves ceremonial bill from Toomey sending trade message to Trump

The measure states that the president can’t use the national security concerns to invoke tariffs — known as Section 232 — without congressional approval

7 years ago

The Wingohocking combined sewer outfall carries storm and sewer water into the Frankford Creek, and trash.
PlanPhilly
Science

Looking to cut plastics pollution in the ocean? Start upstream

While beach towns in N.J. and Del. work to curb the use of plastic straws, bags, containers, and even balloons, researchers say it appears the real problem lies upstream.

7 years ago

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Packages containing a nasal inhalant
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

N.J. may require that students learn to administer OD-reversing drug

The proposed legislation would require that naloxone instruction be paired with curriculum that educates students about the risks of opioid addiction.

7 years ago

Listen 1:47
Eugene Gilyard (center) and Lance Felder (second from left) were exonerated in 2014 after spending 16 years in prison for a murder they did not commit. (Photo courtesy of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project)
NewsWorks Tonight
Courts & Law

After 16 years in prison, two men falsely accused in killing to share $3 million from Philly

Eugene Gilyard and Lance Felder spent 16 years behind bars until an inmate serving time for another murder confessed.

7 years ago

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EMTs unload Parag S. Gohel from an ambulance at UPMC Presbyterian's ER. Gohel is in an isolation pod because he’s pretending to have an infectious disease for the hospital’s yearly drill. (Sarah Boden/WESA)
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Fake patient, real threat: UPMC prepares for worst case scenario

To prepare for the possibility of Ebola or another deadly disease, hospitals practice protocols created to keep staff and patients safe.

7 years ago

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Seth Grossman is a Republican congressional candidate in South Jersey. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

National GOP disowns South Jersey congressional candidate Seth Grossman

The Republican National Congressional Committee says New Jersey candidate Seth Grossman should reconsider his candidacy, saying bigotry has no place in Congress.

7 years ago

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Left: Downtown Pittsburgh (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Right: Philadelphia skyline (SeanPavonePhoto/Bigstock)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Philadelphia and Pittsburgh: Five charts and two families at the center of the school choice debate

Since the state enacted a charter school law 20 years ago, starkly different trends have played out in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

7 years ago

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A sign is seen outside a bail bondsman across the street from Mercer County criminal courthouse Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, in Trenton, N.J.
Courts & Law

Federal court ruling leaves New Jersey’s bail overhaul in place

The reconfigured pretrial justice system virtually eliminates money bail in favor of methods that aim to ensure defendants on release stay out of trouble and show up for trial

7 years ago

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