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Osprey Recalls Child Backpack Carriers Due to Fall Hazard

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Osprey is recalling 82,000 child backpack carriers due to a fall hazard.

The recall involves all models of Osprey’s Poco, Poco Plus and Poco Premium child backpack carriers manufactured between January 2012 and December 2014.

According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a child seated in the carrier can slip through the leg openings, posing a fall hazard to children.

Osprey says it has received four reports of children falling through the carrier, including one report of scratches to the head and another sustained a skull fracture.

The nylon child carriers were sold in three colors, “Romper Red,” “Koala Grey” and “Bouncing Blue.” They have a metal frame and a gray padded child’s seat inside.

The production date is stamped on a black label sewn into the interior of the large lower zippered compartment on the back of the carrier. “Osprey” is printed on the fabric above the kick stand. The model name is printed on the back at the bottom.

Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled carriers and contact Osprey for a free Seat Pad Insert for use along with the existing safety straps to secure the child in the carrier.

Consumers who previously received and installed the free Seat Pad Insert in their carriers are not required to take further action.

The products were sold at REI and specialty outdoor stores nationwide and online at Amazon.com from January 2012 to December 2015 for between $200 and $300.



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'Luxury' Fyre Festival in Bahamas Turns Into Fiasco

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A luxury music festival that promised to fly guests from Miami to the Bahamas for a "once-in-a-lifetime musical experience" had to be canceled after it turned into a disorganized debacle.

The Fyre Music Festival was supposed to be a two-weekend event starting Friday, held on a private island in the Exumas and offering the "best in music, cuisine, design and hospitality," according to the Fyre Festival Facebook page.

The festival, co-organized by Ja Rule, had steep ticket prices that included a roundtrip flight from Miami, a treasure hunt and performances by Blink-182, Major Lazer, Skepta and Disclosure. It advertised and targeted millennials with a luxury time with yachts and models, with some reportedly paying as much as $12,000 for their tickets. 

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But festival-goers who arrived Thursday found conditions less than luxurious, and took to social media to voice their displeasure.

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There were complaints of issues getting to the island and amid reports that the island was overcapacity.

One festival-goer, 21-year-old Tom Knight, of New Jersey, said his flight out of Miami was delayed for four hours and when he landed in the Bahamas there were no buses to escort people to the island.

Once they got there, Knight said their luggage didn't arrive for several hours and the accommodations were tents.

"We’re living in tents, the mattresses are soaking wet and there is just a pillow case, no pillow, no sheets. Some people are actually sleeping on the floor of their tents because there aren’t enough beds to go around," Knight said. "It’s literally one strip of road and the house, and that’s it, and all of the tents. It’s like, literally looks like a concentration camp."

Then, on Thursday night, Blink-182 announced they had canceled their appearance at the festival.

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"Due to circumstances out of our control, the physical infrastructure was not in place on time and we are unable to fulfill on that vision safely and enjoyably for our guests," a message on FyreFestival.com read. "At this time, we are working tirelessly to get flights scheduled and get everyone off of Great Exuma and home safely as quickly as we can."

Festival organizers said they were working to put people on complimentary charter flights back to Miami.

"The festival is being postponed until we can further assess if and when we are able to create the high-quality experience we envisioned," the website read.

Ja Rule said he was "heartbroken" in a tweet Friday, saying it wasn't his fault but he takes full responsibility.

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The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism released a statement Friday apologizing to people who came to the event.

"We are extremely disappointed in the way the events unfolded yesterday with the Fyre Festival," the statement read. "Hundreds of visitors to Exuma were met with total disorganization and chaos."

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Best Moments from NFL Draft Night 1

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From Temple's Haason Reddick getting taken in the first round to the warm Philadelphia welcome for Roger Goodell. Here are the top moments from night one of the NFL Draft.

From Walk On to NFL: Returning to Haason Reddick's Roots

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After an injury in high school nearly ended his career, Haason Reddick defied the odds. Now he's a first round draft pick heading to the Arizona Cardinals. Erin Coleman went back to where it all started at Reddick's Haddon Heights High School.

Community Comes Together to Support Fallen Trooper's Family

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Grade school students came by the hundreds to pay their respects to State Trooper Stephen Ballard Friday. Many couldn't understand why someone would hurt a police officer. NBC10 Delaware Bureau Reporter Tim Furlong shows you the growing memorial for the fallen public servant.

The City Steals the Spotlight at NFL Draft

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The NFL announced a record 100,000 people came out for night one of the NFL Draft. From draft pick paintings to mock locker rooms, fans from near and far are enjoying all the festivities the Parkway has to offer. Deanna Durante was out and about at the party on the Parkway.

NBC10 Responds: Subscription Scam

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A magazine company tells a man he has to pay for a subscription he never signed up for. Harry Hairston and the NBC10 Responds team has tips to avoid paying for something you didn't order.

Beautiful Weather at Jersey Shore for Girls Weekend

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This beautiful weather means businesses are excited at the Jersey Shore. Temperatures in the 80s for Girls Weekend should mean business will be booming. NBC10's Cydney Long spoke with people about what they're expecting.


Pro-Choice Group Calls Councilwoman a 'Rising Star'

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A trailblazing member of Philadelphia City Council is being recognized by a group dedicated to getting pro-choice woman elected.

Emily’s List recognized Councilwoman at-Large Helen Gym with its Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award earlier this week. Gym is the first Asian-American woman on Philly's council.

In a Facebook post, Gym, a first-term Democrat, thanked the group for its support "and, most important, for believing in and building a broader movement for justice."

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Lucinda Guinn, vice president of campaigns at Emily's List, told NBC News that the work Gym has done for Philadelphia public schools, fighting to keep Philadelphia a sanctuary city and immigrant rights weighed into the recognition.

"All of our nominees this year were tremendous leaders in their communities, and Helen is no exception," Guinn told NBC News.

On its website, Emily’s List speaks of the group’s vision for a balance of power:

"Our vision is a government that reflects the people it serves, and decision makers who genuinely and enthusiastically fight for greater opportunity and better lives for the Americans they represent," the post says. "We will work for larger leadership roles for pro-choice Democratic women in our legislative bodies and executive seats so that our families can benefit from the open-minded, productive contributions that women have consistently made in office."

Gym said she plans to accept that reward and share her "Philadelphia story" at a gala in Washington, D.C. next week.



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Think You've Got What it Takes to be a Pa. State Trooper?

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Those that protect and serve need to meet certain requirements.

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Photos: Penn Relays Blast From the Past

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Get a Taste of Jamaican Culture at the Penn Relays

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While the NFL Draft is getting the spotlight, another national treasure is taking place in Philadelphia. The 123rd Penn Relays are in town until Saturday. Aundrea Cline-Thomas shows us how local Jamaicans are fusing their culture with the historic event.

Plastic Bag Ban Minimizes Carbon Footprint

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ICE Raids Mushroom Farm in Chester Co., 9 Arrested

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In search of four undocumented immigrants, federal agents raided a mushroom farm facility in Chester County and took into custody nine workers there, according to witnesses and the owner of the farm.

None of those nine workers were the four that officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement were reportedly looking for.

ICE came onto the private property of a processing facility owned by South Mill Mushrooms Wednesday morning. The end of the raid, including the arrests of two men, were caught on video and posted to social media.

Michael Pia, the fourth-generation owner, told NBC10 on Friday that ICE did not make clear whether they had a warrant to come onto the property.

"I do not believe they had a warrant or no one told me there was one," Pia said. "They just came onto the property and at the apartment complex across the street. I was under the assumption they were allowed to."

"When an HR supervisor talked to the agents, they were already on the property. We're actually kind of looking into that," he said.

The raid on private property is the latest in a string of high-profile immigration busts to occur in the Philadelphia region since the beginning of the year. In March, nearly 250 were arrested across the region along with Delaware and West Virginia. Also in March, ICE officers made three early morning stops of vans filled with workers heading to job sites in Berks County.

The vans were targeted because they made frequent stops to pick up Latino workers, according to an immigration attorney in Reading who is investigating the stops on behalf of some detainees.

That attorney, Bridget Cambria, also questioned Friday the lawfulness of ICE's Chester County raid, noting that they would need a warrant to enter private property.

Two spokesman for the ICE field office in Philadelphia did not respond to an email seeking a government account of the mushroom farm raid. It is unclear where the men are being detained, but many suspected undocumented immigrants arrested in Pennsylvania are taken to York County Prison, which has a contract with the federal government.

Pia said the workers detained are not employees of South Mill, but are assigned to the processing plant on Starr Road in Kennett Square through a subcontractor. He said he did not immediately have the name of the subcontractor who employed the men.

ICE told farm supervisors that the officers came looking only for four individuals wanted by authorities, but Pia said he was told that none of the nine arrested were the people ICE was looking for.

Witnesses to the ICE raid Wednesday told Telemundo62 that the scene was chaotic as workers at the plant realized who the ICE officers were.

The witness said "no one knew where to run but everyone scattered."

ICE officers in "la migra" cars were at the mill for three hours after rounding up nine of those workers who initially tried to flee.

The witness added that ICE officers told people at the plant that "we'll be back."

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Pia said it's the third such raid in the mushroom mecca surrounding Kennett Square that he's heard of, but the first at any of his properties. South Mill Mushrooms dates to 1932 when, according to the company's website, "John Pia, an Italian immigrant, began operating a small mushroom farm in southeastern Chester County."

Over the decades, the business expanded until in 1982, the Pia family was able to purchase one of the region's largest mushroom farms from the Clorox Corporation.

The day of the raid, the company honored a 20-year veteran of the company, Roberto Alvarez, on its website as part of what the company calls "#WhoWeAreWednesday."

"Roberto was born in Puebla, Mexico and migrated to the United States with his parents and siblings when he was 11 years old. Roberto began working for us in 1997 as a Mechanic’s Helper. Several years later, he was promoted to Assistant Manager and since 2007 he has been the Manager of the Maintenance shop at our Tunnel operation. Roberto enjoys the new challenges he faces every day and the people with whom he works."



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Did Serial Killer H.H. Holmes Fake His Death in Philly?

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It was a spectacle few people had the opportunity to witness on May 7, 1896, but that didn't stop them of gathering outside the Moyamensing Prison at 13th Street and Passyunk Avenue.

"Thousands of people were at the intersection," according to author and Holmes expert Matt Lake.

The hanging death of H.H. Holmes was supposed to bring closure to decades of alleged atrocities and crimes that spanned a good part of the United States and into Canada. He’s known as America’s first serial killer.

Licensed professional counselor Jennifer Murphy has studied serial killers. She says, “He was one the worst that I’ve ever seen.”

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Some estimates have his death toll around 200 but Holmes was only charged and convicted of one murder. At one point, he confessed to 27 killings, only to recant, saying he only accidently killed two people.

A life-long liar, Holmes is best known for his “Murder Castle” in Chicago. He built the hotel equipped with secret rooms, chambers and a spot dissections in the basement. With visitors from around the globe visiting the city’s World’s Fair in 1893, Holmes’ unwitting guests checked in but some never left.

“He’d wind up putting them into an airtight room and turning the gas on in there until they suffocated,” Lake said.

It’s believed Holmes sold his victims’ bodies, organs and bones. According to Rider University Professor Joe Wojie the going rate was about $8 to $10 a body.

"At a time when a Union soldier is pulling in about $13 a month. Porters loading and unloading ships are making about 5 cents an hour. Enterprising young men, not afraid to get their hands dirty could pull in, God, $8 a fresh body,” he said.

After the World’s Fair, Holmes was on the move. He is known to have travelled to the Dallas area and St. Louis but he and his swindles wound up in Philadelphia. The visit didn’t go as planned.

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Lake calls it “a tactical error.”

Holmes convinced his business partner Benjamin Pitezel to fake his own death in order to get a $10,000 life insurance payout. But instead of faking Pitezel’s death, Holmes killed him at their 1316 Callowhill Street office. 

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He then went on the run. Police eventually caught up with him in Boston and he was sent back to face the murder charge in Philadelphia. Holmes’ was convicted and sentenced to death. The case was front page news in Philadelphia and across the country.

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While in prison, Holmes cashed in on his fame. The publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer paid Holmes for a confession. In it, the murderer claimed he killed 27 people, but in his memoir Holmes changed his story.

“So admitted to committing 27 murder, and right before his execution, says 'I killed two people. I deserve to die, I guess,'” Lake said.

Holmes was hanged on May 7, 1896. He was granted one last wish. It is believed that Holmes was buried in concrete. Lake believes, “There’s two reasons. He knows what people can do to cadavers and he doesn’t want to done to him. And two, is to conceal his identity.”

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Number two plays into a Holmes mystery more than 100 years old. “There was a theory almost immediately, one of these conspiracy theories that arises, that maybe he faked his death.”

While most experts we spoke with don’t believe it, Holmes ancestors want to be sure. The infamous murderer’s family in late 2016 petitioned a Delaware County Court to exhume H.H. Holmes’ remains.

According to court documents, family lore indicates that Holmes “…managed to escape through some subterfuge and that someone else was hanged and buried at the gravesite...”

A newspaper account from 1896 makes the same claim. In it, Holmes conned another prisoner to take his place while the killer escaped to South America. Oddly enough, the person quoted in the article is someone Holmes confessed to killing years earlier.

Lake says, “It’s very tempting! Because this guy was a consummate trickster!”

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Forensic scientist Arthur Young is not involved in the exhumation but says as long as the remains have been protected over the years, those digging should find usable DNA samples, possibly a tooth.

“DNA is actually quite stable. It can survive for decades, even millennia,” according to Young.

Regardless of what is or is not found, Philadelphia continues to play a major role in case of America’s first serial killer.

“We caught him. And we got the body. He’d have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for those darn Philly kids!” Lake says.


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St. Joe's Students Throws Prom for Teens With Autism

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A special prom for a special group of teens will be taking place Friday night thanks to folks at St. Joseph's University. The Kinney Center for Autism Education and Support is putting on the event for young people who may never have had the opportunity to celebrate the dance.

Truck Filled With Cereal, Crackers Burns on I-476

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This burning tractor trailer shut down the northbound lanes of Interstate 476 in Nether Providence around 10:45 p.m. Friday. The truck, which was carrying cereal and crackers, burst into flames along the shoulder. No one was hurt.

The Draft Isn't the Only Event in Town This Weekend

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The draft not your thing? Don't worry there are plenty of other events happening around the area this weekend.

4 Hurt in Chester Shooting

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Police in Chester, Pa. are looking for the gunman who shot four people along the unit block of 21st Street Friday night. Police said four men were taken to Crozer-Chester Medical Center. A fifth victim was hit by flying glass. None of the injuries appear to be life-threatening, police said.

NBC10 First Alert Weather: Get Ready to Sweat

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Saturday is going to be very warm with higher humidity. It'll feel more like summer than spring. But the hot weather won't last. NBC10 First Alert Weather meteorologist Tammie Souza has your most accurate forecast.

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