Members of our community are encouraged to participate in helping us to clean up roads across Lancaster County and Chester County, PA. Our fist clean up is in Gap, PA along the Lincoln Highway. WLRI will start at the Gap Bypass (U.S. 30 @ PA 41) and work east to the Chester County line (Swan […]
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COATESVILE, PA – WLRI has learned that around 10:PM this evening a 14 year old male bicyclist was struck by a vehicle. It happened in the area of KERSEY ST & South Fourth Avenue in Coastesville. The victim was not conscious but was breathing as of 10:09 PM, according to county radio reports. Rely on […]
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STAFF REPORT WEST CHESTER, PA (WLRI) – In a press release obtained by WLRI, West Chester Police Department reported that “on July 17, 2019 at approximately 6:00 PM, West Chester Police officers were dispatched to the area of S. Penn St. and E. Barnard St. for the report of an attempted kidnapping of a juvenile. […]
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BY: Jenn Stanley HARRISBURG, Pa. – Robocalls are more than annoying – they’re bilking people out of money. And a new survey says many Pennsylvanians are vulnerable, as scam artists use sophisticated technologies to mask their identities. The state-specific survey by the AARP Fraud Watch Network found more than half of respondents receive seven or more robocalls […]
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BY: Andrea Sears COATESVILLE, Pa. – It’s time to invest in local solar jobs. That’s the message climate-justice advocates delivered to PECO on Tuesday. Clean-energy backers rallied in Coatesville, calling on Philadelphia Electric Co. to make local jobs a priority by committing to at least 20% solar power by 2025. According to Dana Robinson, media director for […]
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BY: Andrea Sears HARRISBURG, Pa. – A new report outlines severe consequences for hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians if the Affordable Care Act is repealed. The Trump administration wants a federal appeals court to uphold a ruling that says the Obama administration’s signature health-care law is unconstitutional. If the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agrees, the case […]
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BY: Jenn Stanley ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A mid-year report from the Guttmacher Institute on abortion access in the United States puts the state-level divide on abortion policy front and center. In the face of a more conservative U.S. Supreme Court, 12 states have passed abortion bans, while six have expanded access. But some in Pennsylvania feel that […]
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BY: Andrea Sears HARRISBURG, Pa. – A new report documents the shift of manufacturing jobs away from Northeastern states as the manufacturing sector has shrunk overall. The report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce said in the 1940s, almost a quarter of all jobs were in manufacturing, and those jobs were concentrated in […]
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