Allentown and a mile an quarter in trenton. This will be an issue there will be areas of dense fog overnight tonight. Rain amounts between about quarter an inch and half an inch in mt. Holly. Philadelphia almost half an inch of rain and more to come later this week. Temperatures in the 50s through philadelphia. Wilmington to the south and east 64 in wildwood. A cool easterly flow bringing trenton down to 47 and wrightstown it is only 48 degrees. This area of low pressure will move offshore tonight. Well see some drying conditions but not after we have a few issues. Additional showers not a big deal but those winds will be gusting to at least 25 miles an hour and locally dense fog could be problem in many locations. Coming up well talk about how intense the wind gets tomorrow. A late week soaker an sunny stretch in your seven day forecast. The big focus will be this storm this late week soaker is actually a coastal storm. It will be moving off the coast friday into saturday. And it mean
Advocates for juvenile justice reform recently gathered in Chicago to find ways to keep young people out of the criminal justice system. Herschella Conyers, board chair of the Juvenile Justice Initiative, said part of the work needs to happen in schools. If schools were transformed into welcoming neighborhood activity centers, open from 7 a.m. .
The number of children locked behind bars in Alabama has declined, but their advocates said more needs to be done to create alternatives to incarceration. A one-day count of detained youths in 2021 was nearly 25,000 nationwide, which is a 60% decline over the past decade, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. .
A recent report finds crime across cities in Virginia and the nation is in sharp decline. The Council for Criminal Justice report tracked crime data for 37 cities across the country. Across these cities, homicides were around 10% lower during the first half of 2023, compared with the same period the year before. .
After Republican Congressman Hal Rogers inserted language into the latest House appropriations bill which would bypass environmental regulatory processes related to the building of a $500 million federal prison in Letcher County, environmental experts say clearing the region s old-growth forest to build the prison would permanently degrade the environment and increase the likelihood of severe flood damage. Julia Finch, Kentucky chapter director for the Sierra Club, said construction of the more 1,400-bed facility and prison camp would remove natural flood buffers, leaving the landscape unstable and communities at heightened risk. "The footprint of USP Letcher is approximately 570 acres," Finch pointed out. " .