Emergency crews responded to a crash involving a school bus in Bear, Delaware around 4:30 Monday afternoon.

Officials said 8 people were injured and taken to the hospital, but none of the injuries were life-threatening.

The crash happened at the intersection of Route 896 and Brennan Boulevard.

A damaged pick-up truck could be seen on a flatbed tow truck following the crash from SkyForce10.

The investigation into what caused the crash continued.

Mason Catrambone long wanted to be a student at Camden Catholic High School, his dad's alma mater.

Earlier this year, he was on the road to fulfilling that dream when he landed acceptance into the high school's freshman class.

But now, Mason and his parents, Frank Catrambone and Annmarie Kita, say the school has crushed his dream by refusing to support and accommodate his gender identity. When Mason, who attended public elementary and middle school in Williamstown, where he lives with his parents, applied to Camden Catholic, he was Madelyn.

In the time since, though, Madelyn became Mason as the teen learned more about himself and came out as transgender. He's been transitioning from Madelyn to Mason this summer.

"Even when I see pictures of myself from the beginning of the summer, I think, 'Wow, that was a whole different person,'" Mason told NBC10's Cydney Long.

He said embarking on the journey of his transition was a tough decision, but something he knew he had to do. "No one wants to go through these struggles, but I didn't want to not be myself anymore," the teen explained. "The fact that I have support of my friends and parents has given me support to handle this."

Mason planned to start his freshman year at Camden Catholic this fall, but when the school learned of his transition and met with his parents to discuss it, they said they couldn't accommodate him, saying his gender identity doesn't mesh with the school's Catholic teachings.

"By choosing a Catholic school, students and their parents must understand that this means the school environment is shaped by religious beliefs and behavior is governed accordingly," Camden Catholic officials said in a written statement. "After discussion with the student’s parents and reflection on the requests, it was clear that we could not provide the accommodations, as they would contradict Catholic teaching on gender identity."

Mason's parents twice met with school officials to talk about what their son would need if he became the 750-student school's first openly transgender pupil, including that Mason be allowed to wear a boys' uniform.

The school said it couldn't meet their needs.

"We strive to be welcoming, respectful and sensitive to each student's unique needs, while always remaining true to the Church's teachings," the school continued in its statement. "In this case, we could not do what the parents wished for their child and they chose to look for another school."

Mason is going to cyber high school for the moment. He's disappointed at Camden Catholic's decision, but not surprised.

"I felt like I was rejected even though I knew the students of Camden Catholic would accept me as one of their peers," he said.

"I had learned that there is a stance against transgender people in the Bible ... and you are as God created you, and you shouldn't tamper with that," Mason added. "So yeah, I would say I wasn't surprised at the end."

He said he hopes to raise awareness by going public with his story. And it seems he has: A Change.org petition supporting him created by someone identified only as "Concerned Camden Catholic Student" garnered 955 signatures since it began a day ago.

"I just want people to know what happened," he said. "I know it wasn't very logical at first to go to a Catholic school knowing that I was transgender ... but at the same time, they could have worked it out."

Emergency crews responded to a report of a shooting at Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania Monday evening, but investigators discovered no gunman, but instead say bubble wrap may be to blame.

"The situation appears to be one where a female student in the dorms of Eastern University heard what she thought were shots fired. She diligently called 9-1-1," Jamie Bilella, Vice President Enrollment Management and Marketing Valley Forge Military Academy & College told NBC10. 

Delaware County officials said officers responded to the school after receiving a call reporting a possible shooting about 6 p.m. Police put the school on lockdown while they searched buildings, but found no victims or evidence of the shooting and released the lockdown about 7 p.m.

Police could be seen at the school, some with guns drawn, going building to building as SkyForce10 hovered overhead at 6:20 p.m. Monday.

Valley Forge Military Academy and College is a boarding school with students of middle, high school and college age. Eastern University is a Christian university located less than a mile away from the academy. 

"Further investigation indicated that it was more than likely bubble wrap," Bilella said. "There is no indication of any threat, of any weapon, of shots fired or any injury." 

A statement released by Bilella later clarified that the student may have heard bubble wrap.

Valley Forge Military Academy held its opening ceremony last week, and was back to its normal routine by Monday evening.

About 100 people showed up at Lower Merion High School on Monday night to ask for answers about what happens next, following a judge's rejection of the prestigious district’s tax increase adopted earlier this summer.

The meeting was the first for the school board since Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Joseph Smyth ruled Aug. 29 that Lower Merion needed to take a new look at its 2016-2017 budget and lower its 4.4 percent tax increase.

At the center of contention is the district’s $55 million in surplus accounts. Smyth ruled that the district should not have raised taxes above a 2.4 percent state-mandated limit. The district has filed an appeal, arguing that more than $35 million of that surplus money is in dedicated accounts that pay for pensions and capital projects. The state did sign off on Lower Merion’s tax increase above the limit.

The board approved two resolutions related to the appeal: the appointment of special counsel to oversee the appeal, and the formation of an escrow account to hold money in question pending the outcome of the litigation. The special counsel will be an attorney with Drinker Biddle at a rate of $495 an hour, board attorney Kenneth Roos said.

Prior to the board's vote on those resolutions, district officials presented their case for the tax increase, arguing that “unprecedented” growth in enrollment the past several years has contributed to the need for the surplus accounts, which in part go toward employee pensions and new buildings.

Copeland and the board found some resistance from township taxpayers and residents who spoke during the public comment period, though numerous speakers said they support the elected school board and district officials.

Copeland said taxpayer money has been spent properly, with current and future students in mind.

“The district employs good, sound accounting practices. Without a doubt,” Superintendent Robert Copeland told a crowd spread out across the 850-seat auditorium. “You want to maintain enough for a rainy day. And also to maintain a high debt rating.”

In addition to explaining the pension and capital projects funds, Copeland also defended the $20.1 million in “unassigned” budget surplus, saying that total is about half the $42 million, or two months’ expenditures, that the state budget officials recommend for government agencies.

“Here’s our biggest issue, the impact of growth in enrollment,” Copeland said. “What’s the enrollment growth meant? 100 new teachers.”

Those teachers, he said, add about $10 million more to the annual budget. He also cited capital projects necessary to create room for the roughly 1,000 new students that are now in the district above enrollment a mere five years ago.

“We’ve had unprecedented enrollment growth, which has been beyond the range of our neighbors,” Copeland said. He and other district officials have noted that most districts in southeastern Pennsylvania have seen stagnant or falling enrollment.

Lower Merion has increased from about 7,300 students five years ago to nearly 8,400 students this school year, according to Pennsylvania Department of Education statistics.

“The decision against Lower Merion School District calling into question their budgeting practices is erroneous and creates potentially negative implications not only for Lower Merion School District but for all school districts across the commonwealth that follow the rules, budget conservatively, and engage in long-term financial planning,” the Pennsylvania Association of School Budget Officials said in a statement Monday. 

A court date for the district’s appeal has not yet been set. A spokesman for the district said the filing of the appeal has given the school board a stay from having to address the budget and tax increase while litigation is ongoing.

The district has said lowering the tax increase by 2 percent would mean cutting about $4 million from the $258 million 2016-2017 budget.

Gail Simon, of Wynnewood, said she, like many of the public who spoke in favor of the school board, graduated from Lower Merion schools -- as did her children.

"Lower Merion schools have a wonderful reputation because of the time, effort and money spent," Simon said.

But Arthur Wolk, the attorney who filed the lawsuit and who has lived in Lower Merion for three decades, said he is not against funding high-level public education. He again derided the district for "falsifying" their annual budget.

"The court found in the last six years there were $81 million worth of false claims by the district of deficits when in fact they had surpluses," Wolk said. "Give us back our money."

United Airlines flights were resuming as scheduled at Newark Airport after a power outage at the airline's control tower there severely backed up outgoing flights, officials say.  

The FAA says that some sort of equipment problem or outage caused delays of over two hours at Newark Airport Monday evening. Six United Express flights were also canceled, according to the airline. 

The Port Authority says the United Airlines control tower at Terminal C experienced a power outage shortly after 5 p.m. Power was restored about 45 minutes later, but it went out again shortly afterward. 

Power was again restored shortly after 7 p.m., and has since been running, and flights have resumed, the Port Authority says. There were no residual delays, according to United. 

It's not clear what caused the outage. A source says a backup generator didn't kick in like it was supposed to -- and that meant planes couldn't push back from the gate nor could arriving flights come in.  

United Airlines has a hub at Newark Airport and makes up a large percentage of the airport operations there. 

One passenger tweeted a photo from inside a plane held on the runway, saying, "This has been my view for 2 hours as we're stranded at Newark Airport due to power outage." 

He added, "We just had to turn off the engine to refuel since we've idled for so long." 

United Airlines responded to him in a tweet, saying the flight was delayed "due to air traffic control conditions impacting our flight operations." 

Barbara Harrison of Westwood was arriving on a flight from Aruba and had to wait on the tarmac for about an hour. 

"We had to wait, they said there was a blackout, so we had to change our gate," she said. "Everybody was patient and we got home safe." 

Another passenger complained: "Radios are down and they are trying to manage comms with walkie-talkies and cell phones. Huge delays." 

A wreck involving two tractor-trailers closed the Schuylkill Expressway headed into Philadelphia for about 45 minutes Tuesday morning.

The wreck closed all lanes of Interstate 76 eastbound near Girard Avenue in Philadelphia around 6:15 a.m.

Many emergency vehicles could be seen responding. One person could be seen be loaded into an ambulance. That person was treated at Hahnemann Hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

The crash caused a massive backup leading back to Montgomery County. Crews began letting one lane of traffic by around 7 a.m. By 7:30 a.m. all lanes were reopened but delays remained.

With Kelly and Martin Luther King drives already detoured due to President Barack Obama's visit at Eakins Oval, surface streets like Belmont Avenue served as the best routes around the crash.

Parents are concerned and police are on patrol at a New Jersey high school after more threats to the school were allegedly posted on Facebook Monday night in addition to threats posted over the weekend. 

Police officers were in front of Livingston High School Tuesday morning, even though the threats of violence were deemed not credible.

Superintendent Christina Steffner said the added police presence is to alleviate fears and create a sense of calm. The high school will also open on a two-hour delay Tuesday and students will be required to walk through front-entrance security, Steffner said.  

On Sunday, a student allegedly posted on Facebook about his or her intention to “shoot up” the school on Monday and wrote it would be “judgment day for anyone who attempts to stop the violence.”

Classes and after-school activities went on as scheduled Monday, but parents were hesitant to send their kids to school after hearing about the threats.

On Monday night, the student returned to Facebook and allegedly wrote: “I know today I didn't show up to school. But tomorrow I promise I will kill everyone I see possible.”

Supt. Steffner said police are continuing to investigate the Facebook posts. Initial reports indicated authorities believed the student's account may have been hacked or that the account doesn't actually belong to the student whose name is on it. 

Parents have reached out to NBC New York about with their concerns. They wondered how police figured out that the threats were not credible and why extra security is being added if there is no threat.

Parents should get a chance to ask school officials during back-to-school night on Tuesday.

Several months after food services giant Aramark opted to keep its global headquarters in Philadelphia, the company says it's leaving its namesake high-rise in favor of another location in the city.

Aramark says it's moving to the site of a former industrial building overlooking the Schuylkill River.

Developers say plans call for adding five new stories to the four-story building, creating 600,000 square feet of office space. The lower floors will feature commercial and retail tenants.

Gov. Tom Wolf and Mayor Jim Kenney joined Aramark officials in announcing the plans on Monday. Wolf says the city and state provided more than $20 million in grants and incentives.

Aramark says it plans to complete the move by the end of 2018. The company has called Philadelphia home since 1961.

A woman died in the driveway of a Lehigh Valley home overnight after someone shot her, authorities said.

Police responded to the home, on Pinecrest Lane near Willow, in Lower Macungie Township, about 1 a.m. Tuesday. When they arrived, they found the woman lying in the driveway of a home on the block, according to authorities.

Doctors pronounced the 46-year-old woman dead a short time later at Lehigh Valley Hospital, according to the Lehigh County Coroner's Office. The coroner ruled her death a homicide and said she died of a gunshot wound to her body.

The woman's identity has not yet been released. An autopsy is set to be performed later Tuesday morning.

State Police and the Lehigh County District Attorney's Office are investigating the circumstances surrounding the woman's killing.

A Roman Catholic priest, who used to serve as pastor for a Lehigh Valley church and as an educator at various area Catholic schools, faces child pornography charges after asking a friend and parishioner to upgrade his computer.

Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin announced child sex abuse charges Tuesday morning against Monsignor John Mraz, 66, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Mraz faces the sex abuse charges in connection to downloading child porn, said investigators.

Some of the terms Mraz searched for online included "nude boys wrestling," "teen boys spanked," "small boy nudes," "handcuffed nude boys," "boy bondage" and other terms involving boys and sexual acts, said police.

The charges stemmed from when Mraz, who formerly served as pastor at St. Ann's Church along S 6th Street in Emmaus, gave his HP laptop to a parishioner – identified by the DA as D.M. – to perform maintenance and upgrade the computer in late July.

D.M. discovered files depicting nude males of unknown ages in the computer’s recycling bin, said the district attorney's office in a news release.

D.M. made the upgrades and returned the laptop to Mraz who then asked D.M. to upgrade a second, older laptop, said the DA.

"In the process of upgrading the second laptop, D.M. discovered a file with a name suggesting it contained obscene images of underage males," said the DA’s office.  "These discoveries made D.M. uncomfortable, and he informed the Diocese of Allentown about what he had found on Mraz’s laptops."

The diocese then alerted the district attorney’s office, which in turn investigated and searched Mraz’s home at the Emmaus church, taking various electronic devices, said the DA.

"As a result of the analysis, it is alleged that the user of the devices actively searched the Internet looking for images and videos of underage males engaged in sex acts," said the DA’s office. "It is alleged that numerous image files of child pornography were on the devices as well."

Among the numerous images of nude boys under the age of 18 recovered from Mraz's computers was at least one photo of boys involved in a sex act, said an affidavit of probable cause.

Investigators determined Mraz downloaded the photos "for his own sexual gratification," said the DA’s office.

In a statement, the diocese said it removed Mraz -- who has been a priest for 41 years --and that he can no longer present himself as a priest.

Over his four decades as a priest, Mraz worked at various Catholic schools including Allentown Central and was vice principal at Marian High in Tamaqua. He also served as chaplain at the Newman Center at Lehigh University, said the diocese. He was a priest at St. Ann's since 2008.

A judge arraigned Mraz, who now lives at Holy Family Villa for Priests in Bethlehem, Tuesday morning and set bail at $50,000. He faces an Oct. 3 preliminary hearing.

Reached by phone Tuesday afternoon, Mraz said he couldn't make any comment without his attorney present. He did however reveal he has been hospitalized since July 8.

It's been four years since the Plymouth Township Police Department lost Officer Bradley Fox, its first officer ever to be killed in the line of duty.

Fox, 34, died Sept. 13, 2012 after an armed man shot both him and his canine partner, Nick. Fox pursued the man on foot after he fled from a vehicle chase, and caught up with him in the area of Conshohocken Road and Ernest Station Road, where the man pulled a gun and shot both Fox and his canine before turning the gun on himself.

Nick survived the shooting, but Fox died of a gunshot wound to his head. Fox would have turned 35 the day after he died. The shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Fox, a Marine who served two tours in Iraq, left behind a young daughter, his wife, Lynsay, and a son born six months after his death who shares his name.

Fox's legacy left a permanent mark on Montgomery County and Pennsylvania, which passed a law in his memory cracking down on straw purchases of firearms in the aftermath of his death. The investigation into the weapon used to kill Fox revealed that it had been illegally purchased, then given to the ex-con who shot him.

The Brad Fox Law stiffened penalties for straw purchases, increasing mandatory minimum sentences for anyone convicted of illegally purchasing a firearm to give to someone who can't legally own one.

The Brad Fox Scholarship Fund also awards a scholarship each year to a graduating senior from Fox's alma mater, William Tennent High School, who plans to pursue a career in law enforcement.

A black bear a little too close for comfort put a Radnor Township elementary school on lockdown Tuesday morning.

Police said someone spotted the bear near Ithan Elementary School, on Clyde Road in Bryn Mawr, after the school day began. The school went into lockdown as a precaution as police and school security monitored the situation.

The school is near a heavily wooded area, according to an employee.

The bear sighting comes on the heels of a few sightings in Chester County over the last couple weeks. Radnor Township is in Delaware County.