After one couple's rental car troubles, the NBC10 Responds team wants to make sure you don't encounter the same difficulties. NBC10's Harry Hairston has the story.

After being evicted from a Wynnewood apartment complex because of renovations, residents are speaking out. Now, people who have called the apartment home for decades are scrambling to find a new place to live.

A small army of students, parents and community members wearing green T-shirts emblazoned with the words “I Support Dr. Ruff” packed into the Downingtown Area School District meeting Wednesday night.

While the school board prepared to cover mundane topics, such as financial reports and academic achievements, the majority of those gathered came to support the now famous Dr. Zach Ruff.

The embattled assistant dean has been on paid administrative leave since a video went viral showing Ruff screaming at a pro-life teen protesting abortion outside STEM Academy on April 21.

The video went viral almost overnight. It has now spread throughout the country and even across the pond to England and beyond. School district officials are looking into the incident and debating whether Ruff acted inappropriately by berating the 16-year-old demonstrator.

“From time to time situations occur that we must be able to control with the professionalism expected from individuals holding leadership positions,” wrote school district superintendent Lawrence Mussoline in a letter to students.

Since the scandal erupted, petitions in support and against Ruff have circulated on social media. The one being presented to members of the school board Wednesday evening comprises more than 52,000 signatures from all over the world.

“It was weird seeing Dr. Ruff do that,” said STEM sophomore Zack Ng, who created the online petition. “When you think of Dr. Ruff, he’s like a teddy bear the way he’s always cheerful. [The video] was a totally different side of him we had never seen before."

Ng did not witness the altercation between Ruff and the demonstrators. However, after watching the video, he was moved to act on Ruff’s behalf.

“I can’t really condone anything that happened in the video, but I know that behind it there was a good intent," he said.

In the days following the incident, rumors swirled. Students struggled to parse fact from fiction and the teens behind the video enlisted the legal aid of a conservative alliance. Conner Haines insisted in an email to NBC10 that he never intended for Ruff to get fired. He is asking for an apology and the right to protest outside STEM without interruption.

While Ruff’s fate continues to hang in the balance, students present at the school board meeting hope their support will sway officials to keep Ruff on staff.

“It’s not the same without him. He’s such a positive influence on everyone there,” said Drew Spanfellner, a junior at STEM.

Spanfellner said he never had a one-on-one interaction with Ruff. But he misses seeing the beloved administrator, who he described as always armed with a smile or joke.

This weekend will bring plenty of rain to our region. But will the rain stick around for Mother's Day? NBC10 First Alert Weather meteorologist Tammie Souza has the details.

Police say street racing may have caused a crash on Black Horse Pike that killed a man and injured two others.

A 26-year-old man was driving a Subaru Impreza east on South Black Horse Pike in Monroe Township, New Jersey Tuesday night. At the same time, Matthew Anderson, 33, of Pemberton, New Jersey, was driving a 2007 Nissan Murano west on South Black Horse Pike. Investigators say Anderson tried to turn left into the driveway of K&J Fencing, located on 3597 South Black Horse Pike, when his vehicle was struck by the front of the Subaru.

The impact caused Anderson’s vehicle to rotate until it came to a final stop about 116 feet away. Anderson was extricated by responding rescuers but died from his injuries. 

Police say two passengers inside the Subaru suffered lower leg injuries. They have not yet revealed their conditions.

A witness who was riding a motorcycle at the time of the crash told police he saw the driver of the Subaru racing another vehicle moments before the accident. The witness claimed the Subaru passed his motorcycle at a speed that appeared to be greater than 100 miles per hour.

Police say charges in the crash are pending. They continue to investigate.

Residents say security failures at the Devereux Behavioral Health Center in Glenmoore, Chester County has put their community at risk. NBC10 Investigative reporter Mitch Blacher finds out what officials are doing at the juvenile treatment center to address their concerns.

Police are searching for a man accused of stealing power tools from a Home Depot store in Bensalem and punching an off-duty officer.

Investigators say Joseph Diperso entered the Home Depot on Bristol Pike Saturday, grabbed a table saw and drill combo kits and then exited the store without paying. He was then confronted by an off-duty Philadelphia police officer in the parking lot, according to officials. Diperso allegedly punched the officer and then jumped onto the hood of a blue Honda Accord that was being driven by an accomplice. The vehicle fled the parking lot with Diperso on the hood, police said.

Police say Diperso was involved in previous retail thefts and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. He faces retail theft, simple assault and disorderly conduct charges.

If you have any information on Diperso’s whereabouts, please call Bensalem Police at 215-633-3719.

Two armed robbers were caught on surveillance video dragging a worker across the floor inside a Northeast Philadelphia 7-Eleven store.

Police say a robber armed with a handgun and another armed with a knife entered the 7-Eleven store on the 5800 block of Rising Sun Avenue Monday at 12:50 a.m. The suspects then knocked a 29-year-old employee to the ground.

Video shows the suspects dragging the worker across the floor. Police say the robbers demanded the victim to open the cash registers. The suspects then took an unknown amount of money and tied the employee up in the back of the store before fleeing in an unknown direction.

The first suspect is described as a white male armed with a gun and wearing a mask, gloves, tan Timberland boots, blue jeans and a black hooded jacket. The second suspect is described as a black male armed with a large knife wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, dark colored jeans, black mask and gloves.

If you have any information on the robbery, please call Philadelphia Police at 215-686-8477 or text a tip to PPD TIP or 773847.

A man accidentally shot his pregnant wife inside their Northeast Philadelphia home Wednesday night, according to police.

Investigators say the man was inside his home on the 3300 block of Primrose Road and cleaning a gun when he accidentally pulled the trigger. A bullet went through his 27-year-old wife's arm and shoulder. Police say she is 21-weeks pregnant.

The woman was taken to Aria-Torresdale Hospital where she is currently in stable condition. No charges have been filed but police continue to investigate.

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Bystander Dead, Officers Hurt in Barricade Situation: A bystander was killed and three officers injured after a suspect opened fire on US marshals and sheriffs officers serving a warrant then barricaded himself inside a New Jersey home for hours Wednesday, police said. Police surrounded the home on Centre Street, near Furman Street, in Trenton after regional task force marshals came under fire around 6:20 a.m., Trenton Police Detective Lt. Stephen Varn said. Trenton Police told NBC10 members of the NY and NJ Fugitive Task Force were initially at the house to serve a warrant. One person died during the firefight, police said. Investigators have not identified the victim but say he or she was an innocent bystander. A viewer sent NBC10 cellphone video of the shooting. The video first shows several armed officers braced against parked cars with their guns pointed at a nearby building. A man is then seen crawling on the ground trying to get to safety. Suddenly several shots are fired and the bystander scrambles on the ground for cover while the officers duck. At least one bullet appears to strike the bystander who lies motionless on the ground. Another officer arrives after about two and a half minutes to help the man. He then drags him to safety with the help of a second officer. Another shot is then heard before the video ends. Police have not confirmed the identity of the bystander who was killed or if the bystander is the man in the cellphone video. Three Mercer County sheriffs officers also suffered minor injuries, police said. Officials said they were struck by projectiles and were taken to the hospital where they were all treated and released.

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NJ Republican Who Revived Health Bill Faces Angry Voters: A Republican who headed the effort to revive the health care overhaul passed by the GOP-led U.S. House faced jeers and insults Wednesday as anger boiled over among voters at a town hall in a heavily Democratic part of his district. Rep. Tom MacArthur faced hundreds of angry voters for nearly five hours, seeking to both sell and defend the health plan that has drawn widespread outrage and fears among those worried they may be at risk of not being able to afford coverage. A group of protesters outside lay on the ground with tombstones during a die-in, while inside MacArthur answered heated questions about the health bill and President Donald Trump. Some voters chanted "goodbye" to MacArthur, who's being targeted by Democrats ahead of 2018 midterm elections.

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GOP Concerns on Trump, Comey Pose Threat to Agenda: Several Republican senators are questioning the timing of President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey. But even as the issue emerges as a potential distraction from the GOP's legislative agenda, most are dismissing Democratic calls for a special counsel, and their hand-wringing looks unlikely to lead to any concrete action. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., moved swiftly to reject Democrats' demands for a special prosecutor to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 election and ties with the Trump campaign. Such an appointment "could only serve to impede the current work being done" by the Senate intelligence committee and the FBI itself, McConnell said. Democrats argued that an independent, outside inquiry led by a special prosecutor was a necessary next step, given Trump's decision to oust Comey in the midst of the FBI's Russia investigation. The firing came not long after Comey had requested additional resources for the investigation, according to U.S. officials, although the Justice Department disputed that. For Republicans who have generally avoided criticizing Trump throughout various controversies, the expressions of concern coming from well over a dozen Senate Republicans were noteworthy. Rank-and-file lawmakers and committee chairs alike said the timing was questionable and the administration must give an accounting of what occurred. Yet Republicans did not appear poised to take any particular action to force the issue.

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Residents Search for New Homes After Mass Evictions: After being evicted from a Wynnewood apartment complex because of renovations, residents are speaking out. Now, people who have called the apartment home for decades are scrambling to find a new place to live.

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Signal problems led to NJ Transit, LIRR and Amtrak delays at Penn Station, and crowds of commuters swelled so much that police had to block off some of the entrances to the busy station during Wednesday's evening rush. 

Police reopened the station's closed entrances at 6:30 p.m., but delays continued on the region's major transit lines hours after agencies warned riders to steel themselves for another nightmarish commute. 

Officers blocked access to the station at 34th Street and Seventh Avenue at the height of rush hour because of "severe overcrowding" at the lower level of the station. Photos on social media showed officers, some with bullhorns, fending off angry commuters and closing gates as crowds crunched together, some refusing to budge. 

"All the money we pay," one defeated commuter said, shaking his head as police told him and others to find another way home. 

One of the officers tried to lighten the mood, yelling to a crowd: "You've been staring at me for hours — I wouldn't want to stare at me for hours." 

Commuters told stories of missing appointments and school events, but many said waiting in cramped conditions had become a part of commuting in a region plagued by high ridership and outdated infrastructure. 

"Living in New York City you tend to prepare for this, and know what's coming," one man said. 

But that didn't quell the growing frustration many riders felt. 

"It's a problem every day," one woman said. "It's not really fair." 

Shortly before heaps of workers headed home, NJ Transit warned of hour-long delays as crews worked to correct the signal problems, which had limited the number of usable tracks on the eastern end of Penn. LIRR said its commuters would face similar delays.

There was no westbound LIRR service into Penn and eastbound service was limited to four branches — Ronkonkoma, Babylon, Port Jefferson and Port Washington — because of the signal problems. 

Amtrak announced that its trains were also facing delays of at least a 1/2 hour. Boards showed that many trains traveling along the busy Northeast Corridor were on "Stand By." 

Much of the service had returned by 7:30 p.m., but platforms were packed and lingering delays trickled on into the evening. 

Rush-hour problems this week were just the latest in what has seemed to commuters like an incessant string of rail problems:

• On March 24 an Amtrak train derailed and bumped into an NJ Transit train.

• On April 3 a second derailment closed more than a third of New York Penn Station's tracks for four days.

• On April 14 a train got stuck in a tunnel for nearly three hours, leading to systemwide delays for travelers.

• On April 21 an Amtrak switch problem near Newark caused widespread delays.

A tractor-trailer fire on Route 3 in New Jersey is slowing traffic at the start of the evening rush hour. 

The tractor became engulfed in flames on the highway in Rutherford, and heavy smoke could be seen for miles. 

Traffic was at a standstill on the westbound side of Route 3, projecting a troublesome drive home Wednesday. By 4:30 p.m., delays were building up to about four to five miles for a two-hour wait. 

One lane was getting by as crews cleaned up after the damaged truck. 

There was no report of any injuries. It's believed the truck was carrying food.

NBC10's Katy Zachry explains how you can make money off of your social media account.

Years of hard work pay off for thousands of Temple University students.

The university along N Broad Street in North Philadelphia celebrated its largest graduating class (9,159 graduates) during its 130th commencement Thursday morning.

The processional at the Liacouras Center began around 9 a.m. Legendary Eagles coach Dick Vermeil addressed the graduating class.

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A love letter lost for decades in the dusty walls of a New Jersey home has finally reached its recipient, a 96-year-old man who was a sailor in the Norwegian Navy when it was written.

The letter was penned by the man’s late wife, who died six years ago this weekend. It makes the meeting of this long-lost letter and its addressee all the more poignant.

“In a way, I guess it’s his wife coming back and making her memory alive again,” Melissa Fahy said.

Fahy and her father Al Cook discovered the letter as they were renovating her new home in Westfield. It was in a gap under the attic stairs. 

“I reached up and I pulled it out of there,” Cook said. “You could see it was old.”

The letter, postmarked May 1945, had literally fallen through the cracks.

“Look at the crack. It fell down flat underneath there,” Cook said, pointing to the crevice the letter had somehow slipped into all those years ago.

That’s where the letter sat for more than seven decades. It was written by a woman named Virginia to her sailor husband Rolf Christoffersen, who was serving alongside the allies overseas as a Norwegian Navy sailor.

Virginia wrote: “I love you Rolf, as I love the warm sun, and that is what you are to my life, the sun about which everything else revolves for me.”

“When I read it, I just couldn’t believe the love and admiration she had for her husband,” Fahy said. “It was really sweet to see that long-distance love. You didn’t have texting, you didn’t have email.”

Fahy was so touched she decided to find Virginia and Rolf and deliver their letter. She posted on the Westfield Moms Facebook page for help. Just two hours later, members of the page had tracked down Virginia and Rolf’s son in California.

“He couldn’t believe that I reached out and tried to find him and return the letter that belonged to him,” Fahy said.

Rolf’s son read him the letter written by his late wife. It was a message of love hidden away in this old home for 72 long years.

Tracy Davidson sits down with NBC10 Ivnestigators reporter Mitch Blacher to discuss the popularity of hat groups in the greater Philadelphia region.

Tracy Davidson sits down with NBC10 Ivnestigators reporter Mitch Blacher to discuss the popularity of hat groups in the greater Philadelphia region.

A suburban Philadelphia high school senior posed as a teenage female to get more than 100 fellow teens to send him nude photos of themselves, officials said Thursday.

Monsignor Bonner Catholic High School student Derrick Jones targeted boys – some in middle school – by leading them to believe they were communicating with a girl named “Haley” through various social media channels, according to Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan and Darby Township Police Chief Regina Price.

Jones, an 18-year-old from Glenolden, used platforms such as Instagram, Kik, WeChat and Snapchat, was found when investigators tracked his IP address. Even after he spoke to authorities, he continued to target victims, officials said.

Investigators said Jones targeted 136 people – about 60 of whom are identified as local males. Once he had the nude photos, Jones posted them from fake accounts in hopes to extort more photos from the victims; he sent graphic images to one of the victim’s own family to shame him, officials said.

“Haley” is a real girl who had her identity stolen by Jones, investigators said.

A judge on Thursday arraigned Jones on dozens of counts, including child pornography and harassment. Jones posted $5,000 bail. He couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.

Jones faces expulsion from school, Whelan said.

"This information is deeply disturbing to all of us," The Archdiocese of Philadelphia said in a statement released Thursday afternoon. "Our immediate concern is for those who were or may have been victimized. Our understanding is that Delaware County Detectives have been in contact with individuals they have reason to believe could be a victim in this matter.

If anyone has information that needs to be shared with law enforcement regarding this matter or wishes to make a report, they are urged to contact Detective Sergeant Kenneth Bellis of the Delaware County Criminal Investigation Division at (610) 891-4717."

In an exclusive interview with NBC's Lester Holt, President Trump explains the firing of FBI Director James Comey.