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Friends of KJ Taylor give interviews to the media at the site where he was shot two days prior in Charleston, W.Va. on Friday, April 9, 2021.
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Anna Sale, author of Let s Talk about Hard Things. She s also the creator and host of Death, Sex & Money, the podcast from WNYC Studios.
West Virginia native Anna Sale is host of the popular podcast “Death, Sex & Money.” It s a podcast that talks about, as she says, “the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.” Sale’s new book, “Let’s Talk About Hard Things,” is about having frank conversations about topics that can make us uncomfortable, including relationships and death.
Bethlehem officials have long imagined a pedestrian bridge spanning the Lehigh River and connecting the city’s two downtowns, and later this month they want to know if the public shares that same vision.
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Black bears are coming out of hibernation in Pennsylvania. Here s what you need to know. (Shutterstock)
PENNSYVLANIA Of all the creatures great and small in the wilds of the Pennsylvania backcountry, perhaps none inspires the awe, fear, and rancorous misunderstanding of Ursus americanus, the American black bear.
As of a 2015 census, there were some 20,000 black bears spread across Pennsylvania, although the most recent estimates place the number of the secretive mammals claiming state residency slightly lower, at around 18,000. It s a trend that s been mostly on the rise for years: the state bear population was around 4,000 in 1970.
In 2020, significantly fewer bears around 3,600, according to state game officials were killed by hunters than in 2019. That s more than a thousand less than 2019, when the state issued more bear hunting licenses than it had in years in an effort to control the bear population growth.