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Tornado Confirmed in Sussex County

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The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado touched down in Sussex County during Monday's storms. NBC10's Erin Coleman has details.


Woman in Critical After Being Struck by 2 Hit-&-Run Vehicles

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A woman is fighting for her life after she was struck by two hit-and-run vehicles in Burlington Township, New Jersey Sunday night.

Kim Henry, 53, of Burlington, New Jersey was walking across the southbound lanes of Route 130 around 9:15 p.m. when she was struck by a vehicle passing by. Police say she was then struck by a second vehicle and was dragged along the roadway. Both drivers of the striking vehicles fled the scene.

“Broken ain’t the word,” Todd Smith, Henry’s boyfriend, told NBC10. “That’s my other half. We’re one. That’s my wife, my baby, my best friend. Not just my girlfriend. All of the above.”

Henry suffered head trauma, facial injuries, broken ankles, and several deep abrasions. She was taken to the Cooper University Trauma Center in Camden where she is in critical but stable condition. Doctors performed two surgeries on Henry Tuesday. She will also need skin grafting due to being dragged.

“Her whole face and her jaw is broken up,” Smith said. “She has scars in the back of her head scraped on the ground where they dragged her." 

Surveillance video was released of one of the suspected hit-and-run vehicles. The video shows a 1997 Mazda Protege pull into a parking lot. The driver then turns off the headlights and switches places with the passenger.

“We’re just out here trying to collect any evidence that we can,” Burlington Township Police Detective Anthony Fontana said. “Anything that we might not have seen that night.”

Smith told NBC10 Henry is legally blind but can see well enough to cross the street. There is no sidewalk in front of their homes.

“That’s my life,” Smith said. “When you see her you see me. We’re both disabled so when we move around we’re together.”

Smith was in tears as he shared his message for Henry.

“Kim I love you so much,” he said. “I miss you and I need you. Come back. You need to come back. That’s it.”

If you have any information on the incident, please call Detective Fontana at 609-239-5889 or Traffic Safety Unit P/O Eric Pew at 609-386-2019.

New Jersey Drone Emergency Response

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NBC10's Ted Greenberg shows how drones are keeping New Jersey first responders connected and how they are providing a new life line in places where there aren't any.

Day Care Worker Pleads Guilty to Pushing Child Down Stairs

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A former day care worker who was caught on camera shoving a young girl down stairs pleaded guilty to child endangerment charges in Delaware County Tuesday.

Sarah Gable, 53, of Folcroft, Pennsylvania, was caught on surveillance video in March pushing a 4-year-old girl down the stairs.

"Apparently for no reason she takes this child and just throws her down a set of steps," Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said.

Gable worked at the Child Care of the Future on the 700 block of Secane Avenue in Primos, Pennsylvania. Police say workers at the day care had just installed a surveillance camera about a half-hour before the incident took place. In the video Gable looks up at the camera after shoving the girl and apparently realizes she is being recorded. She then takes the girl by the hand and leads her down the stairs the rest of the way.

Shawayne Tavares, a manager at Child Care of the Future, told NBC10 she witnessed the entire incident unfold on the surveillance camera in real time.

"I was so upset. I had tears in my eyes," Tavares said. "She picked up the shoe and tried to come to the end of the stairs like, 'Oh, it was her shoe' that caused her to fall."

"I'm like, 'It's not her shoe. I just watched you on camera do it,'" Tavares continued. "Her eyes literally were like, 'help me.' She needs to go to jail for that. You don't put your hands on a child. Point blank."

Workers immediately confronted Gable and called police. Gable was arrested and charged with simple assault, harassment and endangering the welfare of a child. She was also fired from the day care.

The 4-year-old girl suffered a minor knee injury and returned to the day care a few days later.

Gable's sentencing is scheduled for August.



Photo Credit: Upper Darby Police Dept.
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NBC10 First Alert Weather: Sunny and Breezy

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The heat and humidity finally moved out and left us with a great day to spend outside. NBC10 Meteorologist Krystal Klei has details on what to expect tomorrow.

Hit-and-Run Driver Strikes Woman Then Drives Around Her

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Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who struck a woman and then drove around her before fleeing the scene in the Olney section of Philadelphia. The incident was captured on surveillance video.

The victim was walking on Tabor Road at 13th Street back on May 26 at 8:30 a.m. when she was struck by a Buick LeSabre with a sunroof. Surveillance video shows the driver stopping in the crosswalk and then driving around the victim as she remains on the ground.

The woman suffered a broken leg and was treated at the hospital. She was later released but continues to undergo physical therapy.

Police continue to investigate the hit-and-run. If you have any information on the incident, please call Philadelphia Police.

Vigil Held for Man Who Was Shot, Killed Outside Club

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A vigil was held Tuesday night for a man who was shot and killed outside a Center City nightclub over the weekend.

Arikan Darden, 29, was inside Reserve Lounge, a club on the 700 block of Arch Street, Sunday around 2:30 a.m. when an argument started inside. The argument continued outside of the club leading to an unidentified gunman firing at least 20 shots, according to investigators.

Darden was shot once in the torso and once in the face. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:50 a.m. A 25-year-old man later showed up at Wilmington Hospital in Delaware suffering from a gunshot wound to the body. He is currently in stable condition.

No arrests have been made and police have not released a description of any suspects.

On Tuesday hundreds gathered outside Reserve for a vigil in Darden's honor. NBC10 spoke to a family member who helped raise Darden.

"I've never seen him argue and I've had him for 28 years and he never ever, said one foul thing to me," she said. "Please give an opportunity for the future to live. Put the guns down."



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Flyers Player and Volunteers Support Disabled Man

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Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere and members of the community are showing their support for a man with a mental disability who was punched in the face by teenagers in a video that went viral.


10 at 7: What You Need to Know Today

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Here are the 10 things you need to know to start your day from your friends at NBC10.


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Dashcam Video Shows Officer Firing 7 Shots at Castile Car: The Minnesota police officer who pulled over Philando Castile politely told the driver that his brake lights were out and calmly instructed him not to pull out his handgun before suddenly drawing his own weapon and firing seven rounds into the car, a video released Tuesday showed. The dashboard video taken from Officer Jeronimo Yanez's squad car illustrated how a simple traffic stop shifted from a routine exchange to a deadly confrontation in an instant. When Yanez opens fire, another officer near the car jumps back, and Yanez begins yelling at the driver. As more police and an ambulance arrive at the scene, Yanez can be heard breathing heavily and swearing and trying to explain his actions to fellow officers. The video was made public just days after the officer was acquitted on all counts in the case. Although the squad-car footage has been described repeatedly and was shown to jurors in the courtroom, it had never been made public until Tuesday.

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    Pa. Unveils 12 Medical Marijuana Permits: The Pennsylvania Department of Health unveiled the names of 12 groups that won grower-processor permits for the state’s medical marijuana program, which is slated to debut early next year. They were selected from a pool of more than 500 applicants. The winners have six months to get their operations off the ground. They include Prime Wellness of Pennsylvania, LLC and Franklin Labs, LLC, both of which are located in Berks County. A growing and processing facility was not approved for Philadelphia County. Council members Derek Green and Bobby Henon issued statements on "the failure" of Pennsylvania to issue grower-processor medical marijuana licenses to any Philadelphia-based applicant.

    AROUND THE WORLD

    Republican Handel Claims Victory in Georgia Race: Republican Karen Handel won a nationally watched congressional election Tuesday in Georgia, and she thanked President Donald Trump after she avoided an upset that would have rocked Washington ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Incomplete returns show Handel, a former Georgia secretary of state, winning almost 53 percent of the vote over Democrat Jon Ossoff, who won just over 47 percent in Georgia's 6th Congressional District. "A special thanks to the president of the United States of America," she said late Tuesday night as her supporters chanted, "Trump! Trump! Trump!” It was Handel's most public embrace of the man whose tenuous standing in this well-educated, suburban enclave made a previously safe Republican district close in the first place.

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      PennDOT's Newly-Designed IDs Are Still Not Valid for Air Travel: The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced Tuesday it has updated the design and security features of its driver licenses and identification cards, but the enhanced features still fall short of meeting federal guidelines. PennDOT began issuing the newly designed driver’s licenses on Monday at the Riverfront Office Center in Harrisburg as part of a pilot program, agency said in a news release. All PennDOT locations will transition to the new cards by the end of October. The new cards have a larger primary photo, a 2D barcode and the letters “PA” laser-perforated on the card stock. They are laminated with the state motto of "Virtue, Liberty, Independence," the keystone outline, and “1787,” the year the U.S. Constitution was ratified by Pennsylvania. In addition to the changes, the magnetic strip on the back has been eliminated, PennDOT said. But the new cards are not Real ID-compliant. In 2005, the Department of Homeland Security passed the Real ID Act, which set minimum security standards for issuing driver’s licenses and photo identification cards. Pennsylvania lawmakers challenged the "constitutionality and legality" of the federal government's REAL ID Act and responded by enacting the REAL ID Nonparticipation Act in 2012. The law says the state would not comply with the federal guidelines. The deadline to have a qualifying ID accepted by the Transportation Security Administration to board commercial airliners is Jan. 22. After that, people with IDs from a non-compliant state would need a passport, military ID, or some other compliant ID card to board domestic flights.

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      A LITTLE SWEETENER 

      Flyers Player, Volunteers Support Man with Mental Disability Who Was Attacked: Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere and members of the community are showing their support for a man with a mental disability who was punched in the face by teenagers in a video that went viral.  Read more.


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      2nd Girl Pulled From NJ Water Dies 4 Days After Cousin

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      A 12-year-old girl pulled from Jersey Shore waters last week after she and her cousin got stranded in the current has died, authorities say.

      The girl, who has not been officially identified, had been swimming with her 13-year-old cousin, Mitzi Hernandez, off Belmar Beach Thursday when they started to struggle. The relatives, cousins at nearby Belmar Elementary, were both pulled ashore as bystanders swooped in to save them. Hernandez died that day.

      The 12-year-old had been fighting for her life for days before succumbing Monday morning, according to Belmar Mayor Matthew Doherty. There were no lifeguards present at the time because the season hadn't yet started.

      Doherty was visibly shaken as he talked with residents and reporters at a press conference Thursday night. 

      "I know we say this continuously, and people hear it all the time, about not swimming unless there are lifeguards present, but it can be very tempting unfortunately," he said.

      Meanwhile, the community has raised $57,000 to support the victims' families.



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      Britax Recalls Infant Seats Over Chest Clip Choking Hazard

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      The chest clip on some Britax infant seats may present a choking hazard, prompting the company to issue a recall Tuesday.

      Dozens of model numbers of B-Safe 35, BOB B-Safe 35 or 35 Elite infant seats and infant car seats are affected by the recall, for which a remedy kit is being made available. No injuries have so far been reported to the car seat and stroller manufacturer.

      The company notes that the infant car seats remain safe in a crash, and that while the term "recall" is being used, the entire seat does not need to be replaced. A document and a video on the Britax website explain how to switch out the clip for the sturdier replacement.

      The following model numbers are affected, if they were manufactured between November 1, 2015 or after May 31, 2017:

      B-Safe 35 & Travel Systems
      E1A183F, E1A185M, E1A185P, E1A186R, E1A203F, E1A205M, E1A205P, E1A206X, E1A206Z, E1A207E, E9LU65V, E9LU66X, E9LU66Z, E9LU67D, E9LU67E, EXA185M, S02063600, S02063700, S03803400, S03803500, S03803700, S03803800, S03803900, S04144400, S04144500, S04144600, S04145000, S04402800, S04884200, S04884300, S04975600, S04978900, S05260200, S06020300, S06020400, S06020500, S06020600, S06020700, S06020800, S06020900, S06147100, S921800, E1A193F, E1A195M, E1A195P, E1A196X, E1A196Z, E9LV16R, E9LV17D, S04144700, S04144800, S04144900, S04183700, S04183800, S04437700, S04884400, S04884500, S06051400, S06051500, S06051600, S06051700, S06051800, E1A233F, E1A235M, E1A235P, E1A236X

      Warranty Replacement Part: S03421600 

      B-Safe 35 Elite & Travel Systems
      E1A215T, E1A215U, E1A216P, E1A221Q, E1A225C, E1A225U, E1A226L, E9LS51Q, E9LS56C, E9LS56L, E9LS57F, E9LS57G, E9LS57H, EXA216L, S01298600, S02063800, S02063900, S02064000, S04281200, S04281300, S04628500, S06018800, S06020000, S06020200, S92370, E9LV21Q, E9LV26C, E9LV26L, E9LV27F, E9LV27G, E9LV2Q8, S01298700, S04184000, S06051300, E9LT15U, E9LT16C, E9LT16L

      BOB B-Safe 35 by Britax
      E9LT34A, E9LT34C, E9LT35X, EXLT34A, E9LT54A, E9LT54C, E9LT55X

      To sign up for the free remedy kit — a free replacement clip is being sent to those who have already registered their product — visit the recall site here, or call 833-474-7016 on Monday-Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. ET or Saturday between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. ET.

      The recall is being made with regulatory agencies including the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

      Earlier this year, the company recalled B-Agile and BOB Motion Strollers with Click and Go receivers over a damaged receiver mount following reports of car seats unexpectedly disengaging from strollers and falling, leading to more than two dozen scratches, bruises, cuts and bumps on the head.



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      Burglars Hit Upscale New Jersey Block

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      A quiet, secluded block in upscale Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, has attracted burglars. Ida Siegal reports.

      Lindy Snider Isn’t Giving Up on Medical Marijuana in Pa.

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      Lindy Snider won’t back down from a challenge. The daughter of late Flyers owner Ed Snider is among a select group of cannabis entrepreneurs waiting to enter the Pennsylvania market.

      Despite having been rejected for a growing and processing facility, Snider has two applications pending for dispensaries in Center City and Delaware County.

      “This is absolutely the perfect thing for me,” she said on a spring afternoon while talking to NBC10 at her Main Line mansion. “The benefit to Pennsylvania, overall, and Philadelphia, in particular, is staggering.”

      Snider’s grand Tudor-style mansion matched her illustrious name. Dark wood and pastoral paintings adorned most of the walls. Antique medical instruments glistened behind a glass display. Several feet away, an oversized scrapbook dedicated to her father rested atop a vintage table. Photos of her family littered the sitting room and other nooks of the first floor.

      “This is the party house,” she said. “It was made for entertaining.”

      Underneath the Main Line trimmings is a killer instinct for what could become the state’s next cash crop: cannabis.

      Snider is a longtime believer and early investor in the flourishing industry. Even before her father battled bladder cancer, she was drawn to tales of marijuana’s medicinal potential. The holistic culture surrounding cannabis plus its untapped financial opportunities seemed too great to ignore.

      “I’m a business person,” she said. “Cannabis is sort of a no-brainer.”

      And so she jumped headfirst into an industry once reserved for drug dealers.

      Snider’s first stop was trade shows and conferences where she was shocked by the otherwise buttoned-up nature of attendees. There was nothing fringe about it, she said. Snider met industry leaders who were pouring serious money into innovation, technology and creating a startup culture unlike any other.

      “That was really eye-opening,” she said.

      Some of those people eventually became business partners in her early days as an investor. In 2015 she joined the board of Kind Financial, Los Angeles-based seed to sale technology company for cannabis compliance. She also invested in Poseidon Asset Manager, a cannabis hedge fund. More recently, Snider was added to the board of Greenhouse Ventures, a Philadelphia-based marijuana business accelerator.

      Her tentacular ties have earned Snider the dubious labels of “pot tycoon” and “ganjapreneur.” Not everyone in the Main Line understands her interest in the industry, she said. Snider admits certain parents gave her a sideways look when these ventures became public. One commenter in a “Main Line Today” article even branded her family as “local drug lords.”

      Snider welcomed the criticism.

      “I like to shake things up a bit,” she said with a throaty laugh. “I’m a rabble rouser at heart.”

      Estimates vary, but Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana program could rake in more than $125 million in its first year and grow at an annual rate of 180 percent, according to market research firm ArcView Group. The program is slated to debut early in 2018.

      Snider has previously credited her Libertarian father with bestowing business acumen to his eagle-eyed daughter. She does not doubt that he would have approved of her business interests, having used it himself while in palliative care in California. 

      “We saw him eat a really big meal after using the product when he really hadn’t been,” she said.

      During his final years, Snider frequently talked to her dad about the cannabis industry. He was intrigued yet cautious. He warned against using the family name and worried that her reputation could be ruined, to which she simply answered: “I don’t have another name.”

      Despite his misgivings, the elder Snider toyed with the idea of becoming a co-investor and, by the end of his life, had “dramatically” changed his perspective on the plant, his daughter said.

      “Being a family that’s been very involved in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia for a long time both in business and in philanthropy, we see this as an unbelievable sort of dovetail of both those things,” she said.

      It’s not just about philanthropy, however. Throwing her family’s weight behind marijuana is a form of legitimizing the industry, of raising it from a subculture to the mainstream. To that end, Snider and her husband - Dr. Larry Kaiser, president and CEO of Temple University Health System - regularly talk to their children about pot.

      Snider has become the “cool mom” among her kids’ friends, she said. She tries to stay on message when the topic comes up, reinforcing the plant’s reputation as a panacea for epilepsy, autism and degenerative diseases.

      “I’m a realist and I know kids are going to be kids and do things they shouldn’t do. I think it’s inherently built into every human being on the planet,” she said. “The best you can do is educate your kids and teach them to make good choices for themselves because you’re not always going to be around.”

      Snider is not the only famous name to join Pennsylvania’s green rush. Former NFL player Eugene Monroe applied for a grow permit with his company Green Thumb Industries. Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Floyd Little sits on the board of Syracuse-based Terradiol, which applied for a cultivation permit in the southcentral region. And former lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, Mark Singel, is also on the advisory team.

      Coincidentally, State Sen. Mike Folmer, a Republican from Lebanon, co-sponsored Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana legislation. Like other advocates, Folmer turned to cannabis while fighting his own battles with cancer. The Republican used it while undergoing chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma and his wife used it to treat neuropathic pain. He co-wrote legislation with Democratic Sen. Daylin Leach, an even more outspoken proponent of medical cannabis.

      The bipartisan nature of the marijuana industry intrigued Snider, who doesn’t anticipate federal politics will interfere with the state’s nascent program.

      “I don’t think anybody wants to get into a state’s rights fight,” she said of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “It is his job to uphold the law and I think what we need to look at is changing the federal law.”



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      Teen Bashes School's Dress Code With Yearbook Pic, Caption

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      A New Jersey high school student decided to make a statement on her school’s dress code with a yearbook photo revealing her shoulders that was accompanied by a clever comment.

      Tori DiPaolo, who is set to graduate from West Milford High School this week, posed for her yearbook picture with a black top that showed her shoulders in an attempt to make a statement.

      “I’m sorry, did my shoulders distract you from reading this quote?” the comment underneath her photo read.

      She claimed she was jokingly referencing a portion of the school's dress code that prohibits exposing shoulders. 

      She told Yahoo Style and confirmed to NBC 4 New York that she never agreed with the school’s dress code.

      The school’s dress code says clothes with holes, rips, or tears that cause the clothing to be revealing or suggestive are not allowed.

      “Halters, half-shorts, or sweaters and blouses that expose breasts or stomachs may not be worn,” the dress code reads online.

      Dipaolo tweeted out a picture of the yearbook photo and caption last week. The tweet says “Tori 1. Dress code: 0.”

      That tweet has gotten over 450 retweets and over thousands likes. Those numbers are still growing.



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      Water Main Break Closes Montco Road

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      A water main break caused traffic troubles along a Montgomery County road Wednesday morning.

      The break caused crews to close busy Mt. Carmel Avenue between Houston and Tyson avenues in Glenside, Pennsylvania overnight.

      SEPTA tracks go past nearby but there was only minimal impact and no trains were canceled.

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      No word yet on when the road will reopen or what caused the break.

      Glenside Avenue can be used as an alternate route.




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      Environmentalists Win in Court Over Gas Drilling in Forests

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      A decision by Pennsylvania's highest court on Tuesday was hailed as a victory by environmental advocates on the use of public natural resources and money from oil and gas drilling in state forests.

      Brought originally as a challenge to the state government's unfettered use of money from drilling in publicly owned forests, the state Supreme Court went farther in its effort to strengthen the hand that environmental considerations play in government decisions.

      John Dernbach, a professor of environmental law and sustainability at the Widener University Commonwealth Law School, called it a "landmark" decision. It the second major high court decision won by environmental advocacy groups in challenges that grew out of the Marcellus Shale natural gas boom in Pennsylvania.

      The biggest victory in the decision is that it cites a 1971 constitutional amendment to require that the state act as a trustee, and not a proprietor, of public natural resources, said John Childe, a lawyer for the nonprofit Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation. That effectively overturns four decades of case law that had weakened what is known as the environmental rights amendment, Childe and others said.

      A splintered state Supreme Court in 2013 had relied, in part, on the environmental rights amendment when it struck down a two-year-old law imposing new limits on the power of local governments to determine where the natural gas industry could operate. Just three justices had backed that rationale, leading to arguments that it was not settled law, Dernbach said.

      With a five-justice majority now backing a stronger application of the amendment, the court is insisting that environmental rights are on par with other constitutional rights like property rights and free speech, said Jordan Yeager, a lawyer for the Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Pennsylvania Land Trust Association.

      "And all branches of government and all levels of government can be held accountable if they take action that would injure our right to a healthy environment," Yeager said.

      The 45-page decision could make it more difficult to lease state forests for oil and gas drilling, and it could force governments to be more careful about allowing development that would damage public lands, wildlife, groundwater, rivers and air quality.

      Gov. Tom Wolf's office would only say it was reviewing the decision. Wolf has backed a moratorium on drilling in state forests.

      The Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry said it will check with its members on the real-world effect of the decision. The Marcellus Shale Coalition, a major natural gas drilling association, said it viewed the decision solely in the context of its effect on the use of state revenue from drilling in state forests.

      The decision will certainly make it more difficult for the state to tap revenue from drilling in state forests. When the state began leasing state forestland anew to take advantage of the drilling boom, it diverted some of the revenue to prop up its recession-wracked finances.

      That prompted the Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation to sue in 2012 to stop the state government using the money for anything besides improving public lands.

      Some $926 million in total oil and gas lease revenues accumulated from 2008 through 2015, according to figures cited in the decision. About half of it went to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, which manages the state's parks and forests.

      To some extent, the court agreed with the foundation, reversing a lower court decision and saying that royalties must be used to maintain or conserve public natural resources.

      However, the high court ordered the lower Commonwealth Court to sort out whether the same limits should apply to forest leases. Childe said it also remained unclear whether the state would have to repay the hundreds of millions it drew from oil and gas drilling that ultimately was not spent on improving public lands.



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      Grads Have 1 Million Reasons to Celebrate

      Wawa Welcome America Road Closures

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      Philadelphia police have released some of the street closures and detours that will impact our area during Wawa Welcome America festivities around Independence Day. This gallery will be updated as we learn of more specific road closures:

      Photo Credit: Joseph Kaczmarek

      Deadly Shooting Behind Popular NJ Brewery

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      Maple Shade police searched for a gunman after a shooting behind a popular restaurant and brewery Wednesday morning.

      Police rushed to the parking lot behind Iron Hill Brewery along Kings Highway around 8:30 a.m., Burlington County dispatchers said.

      SkyForce10 showed numerous police vehicles with open trunks in the parking lot as officers trekked the area.

      Maple Shade police called the search for shooter an active investigation as of 9 a.m. The Burlington County Prosecutors Office called it a death investigation.

      A worker at a nearby business said co-workers were on lockdown.

      Iron Hill says no one from the restaurant was involved and that the brewery would remain closed during the police investigation:

      "The shooting that happened in Maple Shade this morning was in the parking lot behind where Iron Hill Brewery and Restaurant is located," Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant spokesman Michael Greger said in a prepared released. "There were no Iron Hill employees or customers involved or injured in this incident. Iron Hill is supporting local law enforcement in their ongoing investigation and will remain closed while this process continues."



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      Growing Greater Philadelphia: We Make It All (Full Episode)

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      The Philadelphia region has been a manufacturing hub for more than a century. Today, it’s not only big companies that are producing products for the world. Start-ups are getting their companies ready thanks to a network of incubators.

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