WHYY News and Trenton Street Team Present: Public Safety BBQ and Civic News Cookout 

Published   Jun 17, 2025 07:07PM
Come on out and kick off summer 2025! Let’s build stronger, safer communities—together. Join WHYY News and the Trenton Street Team for a Public Safety BBQ in the park.
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SEPTA swears in new transit police officers amid budget woes

The transit agency is facing funding opposition from Pennsylvania Republicans over safety. SEPTA says it plans to hire new officers despite its budget crisis.
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Talks in Pennsylvania are at crunch time over a budget, lega

The state's politically divided government has two weeks left to pass a spending plan before the state loses some spending authority when the new fiscal year starts July 1.
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Lower Merion nonprofit celebrates half a century of providin

The organization A Better Chance Lower Merion has helped young students of color with mentors and access to strong schools.
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Officials arrest 1 of 2 detainees still missing from New Jersey immigration facility

Published   Jun 17, 2025 04:43PM
New Jersey's U.S. Sen. Andy Kim said the detainees escaped from Delany Hall in Newark by breaking a wall and escaping from a parking lot.
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Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal from New Jersey faith-ba

First Choice Women’s Resource Centers is challenging a state investigation into whether it misled people into thinking its services included referrals for abortion.
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Ex-N.J. Sen. Bob Menendez set to report to federal prison fo

“Despite his decades of service, he is now known more widely as Gold Bar Bob,” said defense lawyer Adam Fee.
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‘There is no substitute’: Philly advocates and officials

Last week, the EPA announced that it plans to repeal a rule expected to curb climate pollution from power plants.
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