Newsworks Tonight Special: At The Shore
While the impact of Superstorm Sandy on human life has been glaringly visible, less apparent is how the storm has affected wildlife. Researchers and college students have been walking through Island Beach State Park looking for the Northern Diamondback Terrapin. It's considered the "canary in a coalmine" for salt marshes.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's new column on the Philly.com website debuted this week.
The website is owned by Interstate General Media, the same company as the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News. Company officials responded to criticism of the move by saying Philly.com is not a news website, and isn't governed by the same journalistic standards as a newspaper.
Restaurant workers often complain that their employers skim some money off of the tips they make. A fired former manager at Chickie's & Pete's alleges the sports bar chain did just that -- and says it cost her job.
This list is a starting point and a partial guide to what's open, what’s not and what to expect at the Jersey Shore this summer. Please add to it by posting information in the comments.
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Even as funding for Pennsylvania public schools has dwindled, the cost of sending students to independent, online charter schools has risen in more than three-quarters of Pennsylvania's 500 traditional school districts.
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For 40 years, New Jersey's Ocean City has been positioning itself as a "mecca of wacky," with French fry sculpture contests, a hermit crab beauty pageant, a Pamper scamper race (toddlers crawling out from the center of a parachute cloth), a wet T-shirt contest (participants try to throw a wadded wet T-shirt the farthest), and a TastyKake sculpture contest wherein contestants "carve" a figure out of a snack cake -- one nibble at a time.
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Leading up to Memorial Day weekend, we heard a great deal from N.J. Gov. Chris Christie about how the Shore is open for businesses.
"This is the first symbol of us of making sure this week that everyone across the state, across the region, and across America knows that the Jersey
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