An uncle and nephew got into a fight inside their Northeast Philadelphia home that left the elder family member with stab wounds to his face, neck and chest.
According to Philadelphia Police a 30-year-old man stabbed his uncle with a pair of scissors inside a home along the 7100 block of Lawndale avenue in the city’s Lawndale shortly before 4 a.m. Monday.
"The 30-year-old allegedly stabbed his uncle with scissors," said Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small. "This 42-year-old victim was stabbed multiple times -- to the head, the face, and multiple tiems to the chest and upper torso."
The 42-year-old uncle suffered critical wounds and was rushed to Einstein Hospital. Small said despite the severity of his injuries that it the victim is expected to survive.
The nephew stayed on the scene and was taken into the custody.
Two other family members that were inside the home at the time of the attack were questioned as witnesses.
Back in November, the long-abandoned Strawbridge & Clothier building at 801 Market St. housed the Franklin Flea, a winter-themed market featuring local vendors offering Philadelphians a variety of things from antique furniture to vintage clothes.
Now, after a six-week run that ended in December last year, the market is back.
Starting on April 19, Franklin Flea will be located across from the Strawbridge’s building at the parking lot on the corner of 8th and Market streets — the site of the proposed Market8 casino.
Mark Vevle, founder of the Franklin Flea, plans to have a “seamless run” through October.
Locations for the market after its six-week run on May 24 (and starting on May 31) are yet to be determined and announced. Read more about this story on PBJ.com.
If a Philadelphia councilman gets his way, smoking a joint will cost you cash, but won’t land you in handcuffs.
A hearing began Monday in Philadelphia City Council where advocates spoke about Councilman Jim Kenney's proposed bill that changes city laws about marijuana so that anyone possessing a small amount wouldn't be placed under arrest.
"An arrest is a very traumatic experience for people, especially if it's the first time and you're a kid," Kenney told NBC10.com. "There's a lot of interactions that go wrong with an arrest -- the person could get hurt, the officer could get hurt."
According to Kenney’s office, the proposal calls for police to not arrest anyone caught with one ounce (30 grams) or less of marijuana. Instead, the drug user would pay a $200 fine and have to attend a three-hour drug-abuse seminar.
After completing the seminar and paying the fine, the marijuana user would have the incident removed from his or her record.
On Monday, a slew of advocates are expected to testify in council chambers including representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), The Pennsylvania chapter of NORML and Temple University students looking for sensible drug policy, according to Kenney's office.
The issue of what to do about people possessing small amounts of weed has been a hot topic for some time.
"The D.A. is diverting them anyway so why are we locking them up?" asked Kenney.
Back in 2010, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams said that his office would start sending anyone caught with 1 ounce or less of weed to a lower court where they could pay a fine rather than face jail time.
"That practice gave me the impetus to go forward and say, 'well if we're not going to prosecute and these folks are going to go to a diversionary program anyway why are we wasting our time arresting them?'" asked Kenney.
Kenney says the new law would help cut down on about 17,000 hours spent yearly by Philadelphia Police on marijuana arrests that often don’t result in prosecution.
"Those officers could be doing more important things than locking up a kid who's got two joints in his pocket," Kenney said. "Police officers on their shift can stay on their shift to combat more serious crime."
Kenney said the police time it takes to book minor drug offenders and hold them in cells costs about $3 million annually.
There is no age limit to the measure and it would cover people caught smoking and/or possessing.
Kenney pointed out that stop-and-frisk being is responsible for the drug arrests of many young people especially African-Americans who made up 89 percent of marijuana possession arrests in the city in 2012.
"I'm sure white kids are smoking as much reefer as anybody else but it seems (Blacks) are the ones getting pinched," Kenney said.
Kenney said the current system where it could take up to a year for a minor weed arrest to clear the system also causes problems because it forces job seekers to disclose an arrest. Kenney's proposal would shorten the length of time to clear one's record.
Kenney said the measure is in no way revolutionary and would be similar to measures in other major cities and even suburban counties.
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Though economists say the Great Recession officially ended, believe it or not, in June 2009, we have a recovery where the wheels are spinning without showing much forward movement.
It shows in a number of different ways. Take tax collections, please.
In making its budget proposal for this year, the Nutter administration had to erase its estimate for wage tax revenue and pencil in a lower number. The administration’s economists had predicted wage-tax growth in the 3.5 percent range. Instead, it is coming in at 1.75 percent.
What that means is that about $60 million in anticipated revenue suddenly went poof!
On the state level, revenue from virtually every major tax is coming in lower than estimates. We’re talking both personal and business taxes, not to mention the sales tax (due probably to the bad winter weather).
The state, which was projecting a two percent overall growth in revenue this year, is currently looking at a growth rate of 6/10ths of a percent.
These numbers are temporal and could change as we advance to the beginning of the new fiscal year in July. But, the economists I talked to doubt it.
“For Philly’s economy, it’s been a long slog,” said Ryan Sweet of Moody’s Analytics. “It’s taking a little longer for Philly to find its rhythm.
One of the ironies is that while wage tax revenue is down, the number of jobs in the city has gone up. How can the number of people working increase but the wage taxes paid decrease?
That one has some scratching their heads, but as Sweet and fellow Moody’s economist Dan White point out it’s likely a function of the fact that the jobs being created are in low-paying industries—mostly service—and not in high-paying sectors such as finance, meds and eds. Another possibility: “You may still be employed, but you are working fewer hours.”
In the state, the rate of job creation also has slowed considerably. As Stephen Herzenberg of the Keystone Research Center pointed out, Pennsylvania was doing well coming out of the recession—in 2010, there were 88,600 private sector jobs created in the state.
Since then, the story has been different: 71,700 jobs created in 2011; 43,900 in 2012 and just 28,200 created last year. Put that on a chart, and it looks like a flight of stairs moving in the downward direction.
In 2013, Pennsylvania ranked 48 out of the 50 states in terms of job growth, compared to seventh in 2010.
This slo-mo job recovery obviously has a ripple effect. For instance, in the mayor’s budget the city is scheduled to spend $4.4 billion this year. However, even with most city departments in the zero increase mode, the amount of “new” money available for new programs and hiring, etc. totals only $18 million.
(Had revenue come in as projected, the city would have had $80 million-plus to spend on programs and initiatives.)
If the lower-than-expected revenues remain the same at the state level, it could cause all sorts of problems for Gov. Corbett who, in this re-election year, is in a spend mode.
Due to a tight budget, Mayor Nutter had to cherry pick on initiatives: $2 million to hire additional inspectors for Licenses and Inspections, mostly to beef up demolition inspections; $2.5 million for the Free Library so that all branches can stay open 6-days a week; $500,000 for the Recreation Department to hire (mostly part time) help for programs; $500,000 for Community College top help offset tuition increases. You get the idea. Most are tweaks to existing programs.
What Nutter did not do is deliver more money to the public schools. Superintendent William Hite had a $195 million “ask” from the city. As of now, most of that money will not be forthcoming. When asked about that, Nutter figuratively showed his empty pockets and said the city could not give more.
One thing the city will do is give the district the right to take most of the one percentage point on the sale tax added during the recession. It was due to expire this year, but will be extended—probably in perpetuity—to help the district.
The city also is asking the legislature to pass a Philadelphia-only $2-a-pack increase in the cigarette tax, which will bring in $83 million if enacted. But the chances of that passing are slim to none.
If it is any consolation, most economists—including Sweet and White—expect an uptick in jobs and the economy beginning the end of this year. There are already signs of quickening. Job creation has been steady, if unspectacular; residential and commercial construction have revived; companies are likely to begin hiring high-end employees as the year advances.
But, those happy days won’t be coming until months from now, not soon enough to help cash-strapped elected officials making their budgets this year.
This story was published through a news content partnership between NBC10.com and AxisPhilly.org
A new type of superhero is being dispatched on winter-worn roads in our area.
A pothole-filling machine will begin to repair streets in Camden County, N.J. this week.
The Camden County Freeholder Board dubbed it the “Pothole Killer.” They say the machine will help them speed up the process of road repair.
Maybe you’ll see the “Pothole Killer” for yourself? Freeholder Ian Leonard explains that it’s a truck with a tank on the back with a boom on the front. The boom first blows loose material out of the pothole, and then sprays aggregate and a heated emulsifying agent into the hole. Next, a layer of stone particulate is applied.
The machine only requires one operator to stay inside the vehicle while a nozzle on the front of the truck fills the pothole.
The machine's efficiency is it's biggest strength. The whole filling process only takes about 90 seconds.
“It also delivers a patch that lasts longer than those made with the cold-patch material that is available,” said Leonard.
If motorists see potholes in Camden County they are urged to call the Public Works Hotline at (856)-566-2980 or follow Camden County on Facebook and Twitter.
Some of the nation's largest pharmaceutical companies have slashed payments to health professionals for promotional speeches amid heightened public scrutiny of such spending, a new ProPublica analysis shows.
Eli Lilly and Co.'s payments to speakers dropped by 55 percent, from $47.9 million in 2011 to $21.6 million in 2012.
Pfizer's speaking payments fell 62 percent over the same period, from nearly $22 million to $8.3 million.
And Novartis, the largest U.S. drug maker as measured by 2012 sales, spent 40 percent less on speakers that year than it did between October 2010 and September 2011, reducing payments from $24.8 million to $14.8 million.
The sharp declines coincide with increased attention from regulators, academic institutions and the public to pharmaceutical company marketing practices. A number of companies have settled federal whistleblower lawsuits in recent years that accused them of improperly marketing their drugs.
In addition, the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, a part of the 2010 health reform law, will soon require all pharmaceutical and medical device companies to publicly report payments to physicians. The first disclosures required under the act are expected in September and will cover the period of August to December 2013.
Within the industry, some companies are reevaluating the role of physician speakers in their marketing repertoire. GlaxoSmithKline announced in December that it would stop paying doctors to speak on behalf of its drugs. Its speaking tab plummeted from $24 million in 2011 to $9.3 million in 2012.
Not all companies have cut speaker payments: Johnson and Johnson increased such spending by 17 percent from 2011 to 2012; AstraZeneca's payments stayed about flat in 2012 after a steep decline the previous year.
ProPublica has been tracking publicly reported payments by drug companies since 2010 as part of its Dollars for Docs project. Users can search for their doctors to see if they have received compensation from the 15 companies that make such information available online. (We've just updated our application to include payments made through the end of 2012, totaling $2.5 billion. Forest Labs, which only began reporting in 2012, reported speaking payments of $40 million, more than any other company in Dollars for Docs.)
Some companies in the database said their declines have less to do with the Sunshine Act and more to do with the loss of patent protection for key products. Lilly, for example, began facing generic competition to its blockbuster antipsychotic Zyprexa in late 2011. Its antidepressant Cymbalta lost its patent at the end of 2013.
"The value of educational programs tends to be higher when we're launching a new medicine or we have new clinical data/new indication," Lilly spokesman J. Scott MacGregor said in an email, adding that the drop in speaking payments also reflects the increased use of web conferencing.
Pfizer's patent on Lipitor, its top-selling cholesterol drug, expired in 2011.
"Like any other company, our business practices must adapt to the changing nature of our product portfolio, based in part on products going off patent and new products being introduced into the market," company spokesman Dean Mastrojohn said in an email.
Novartis' patent for its breast cancer drug Femara expired in 2011, its hypertension drug Diovan in 2012 and its cancer drug Zometa in 2013. In a statement, Novartis said that speaking payments dropped in 2012, in part, because of a shift from big blockbuster drugs that many doctors prescribe toward specialty products prescribed by fewer physicians. Resources were also shifted "to support potential future product launches."
The industry's increased emphasis on expensive specialty medications for such conditions as multiple sclerosis or Hepatitis C, has been striking, said Aaron Kesselheim, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. A piece in the New England Journal of Medicine last week noted that half of the 139 drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration since 2009 were for rare diseases and cancers.
"It's possible the number of physicians they need to support sales of these items is less, leading to lower payments overall," Kesselheim said.
In some cases, companies maintained or made smaller cuts to other forms of physician compensation while pulling back dramatically on speaking payments. Pfizer's spending on consultants dropped 9 percent from 2011 to 2012, far less than its payments to speakers. The company's spending on research stayed essentially the same.
Lilly increased spending on physician researchers by more than 20 percent, while reducing payments to consultants by more than two-thirds.
Many bioethicists and leaders of major academic medical centers frown upon physicians delivering promotional talks for drug companies, saying they turn doctors into sales representatives rather than leaders in research and patient care.
Officials with the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the industry trade group, dispute this characterization. They said they are working with their member companies to prepare for the Sunshine Act and have created a campaign to promote the value of drug company-doctor collaborations.
"Companies will make their own independent decisions about how to engage professionals," said Kendra Martello, PhRMA's deputy vice president of strategic operations.
Scott Liebman, an attorney who advises pharmaceutical companies on the Sunshine Act, said it's too early to know how much the law's requirements are affecting company practices, in part because it's so new. The fact that some companies are cutting back on speaking while preserving their spending on research and consulting suggests that other business forces could be at play, he added.
"It's very hard to pinpoint exactly why that's happening," Liebman said. "I think there's a lot of potential answers to that. I just don't know which is the right one."
A hunter claimed responsibility for the mutilated body of an animal found inside an empty lot in the Brewerytown section of the city, according to investigators.
A man walking his dog discovered the animal in a vacant lot on 30th Street and Jefferson on Sunday. The body had been placed inside a bag and dumped behind a mound of dirt.
According to officials, the dead animal’s skin, paws and ears were removed. They also say the instruments used to mutilate the animal along with its paws were found in a blanket in the same lot.
Due to the extent of the mutilation, officers were unable to determine the species of the animal.
"This is an utmost heinous crime," said Director of Humane Law Enforcement George Bengal. "We are working hard to uncover the facts and locate the offender."
Forensic veterinarians examined the body. At this point, officials believe the animal is a large, non-domesticated feline, possibly a bobcat.
Monday morning, a man who claimed to be a licensed hunter, called the PSPCA and identified himself as the person responsible for the carcass, according to investigators. Officials say the man claimed he was a licensed hunter who shot and killed the animal last month on a hunting trip. The man told investigators he skinned the animal while performing a taxidermy, according to investigators.
Officials did not reveal the man's reasons for leaving the animal in the lot however. Police continue to investigate.
If you have any information on this incident, please call the SPCA at 267-315-0237.
A woman who lost part of her finger after a parking dispute at a suburban mall over the weekend was released from the hospital on Monday.
"I'm extremely angry," said 42-year-old Tonya Knight-Joseph. "I'm pissed off! This is my livelihood. Now I can't go to work. This affects my cooking and my showering. This is everything I do every single day."
Police say a woman confronted Knight-Joseph on Saturday around 4:45 p.m. over a parking space in the lot of the Nordstrom's department store in the Cherry Hill Mall. Knight-Joseph told NBC10 on Monday that she didn't steal the woman's spot and that she never even exchanged words or hand gestures with the suspect before she was approached.
"She got out of her car, cursed me out and came over," Knight-Joseph said. "She hit me and bit my finger."
Knight-Joseph's finger was bitten nearly down to the bone and she was transported to Cooper University Hospital. She was released on Monday but says she could lose 2 months at work due to her injury. She also says she should find out next week if the tip of her finger will have to be completely amputated.
"This was egregious," said Cherry Hill Police Lieutenant Amy Winters. "You don't see something like this usually, even in the Holiday shopping season when parking is a premium. This was a Saturday at 4:45."
Police released surveillance pictures of the suspect and another woman entering the Nordstrom's Store immediately after the assault occurred.
"i guess she had a grandiose time at the mall while I had to get an ambulance," Knight-Joseph said.
The suspect is described as a heavy-set woman in her mid-30's. The woman who entered the store with her is described as a skinny woman wearing a light-colored shirt, dark jacket and sunglasses.
Police also say they may have been driving in an older model Audi sedan.
If you have the identity of either woman, please contact the Cherry Hill Police Dept. at 856-488-7828.
Tyler Lewis still carries the scar and the memories from the day a bullet struck him in the arm.
"You see it all the time on the news and stuff," the 17-year-old student said. "But you never think it'll happen to you."
Lewis was playing basketball at the Delaware Valley Charter School in Philadelphia last January when he and an 18-year-old female student were shot.
"I remember just a loud sound," Lewis said. "A loud noise."
Donte Walker and Raisheem Rochwell were arrested and charged in the shooting. School officials told police that Walker, a former student at the school, was allowed to bypass security and enter the building.
Police claimed that Walker was allowed to enter the building as a "guest" and therefore didn't need to go through a metal detector like students normally do. Even if he did however, that wouldn't have mattered, according to the school's security captain John Hargraves. Hargraves told NBC10 that Walker didn't have a weapon when he went through security.
"There was no weapon when he came into the school that day," Hargraves said.
Hargraves says a teacher left a gym door open, causing a breakdown in security.
"The teacher went out there to check on the patio," Hargraves said. "He just didn't close the door."
According to Hargraves, Walker left the building through the open gym door and returned with a gun. Police say Walker planned to sell the gun to Rochwell, another student.
Investigators suspected Rochwell wanted the weapon because he feared he would be the target of an assault after school.
"If he's a target or not of a fight after school, that's still no excuse for him to have a firearm," Police Lieutenant John Stanford said. "At the end of the day, you play with a loaded gun, things will happen."
While investigators have not yet confirmed whether it was accidental or on purpose, at some point, a shot fired from the weapon. The female student was shot in the rear of her left arm. The bullet went through her bicep and then struck Lewis in the shoulder, according to investigators.
Both students were eventually treated and released.
Both Rochwell and Walker were later arrested and charged.
School officials say the teacher who left the gym door open was disciplined but they did not go into specific details.
Since the shooting, the school has enforced new security measures. All doors in the school now have alarms so that officials can detect anyone opening a door from the outside or inside.
Delaware Valley Charter School is one of 87 charter schools in Philadelphia. Philadelphia Police officers are not present in city charter schools because the schools don't fall under the Philadelphia School District's school police force. Security procedures are up to each individual charter school.
It’s been a brutal winter for roads this year. According to officials with the Philadelphia Streets Department, the city has filled more than 12,000 potholes and is on pace to break an all-time record.
The pothole patchwork won’t last however. Eventually, several city roads will need to be repaved, which means the streets department will need extra cash.
In the new budget plan, the city set aside $12 million to spend this year on repaving 22 miles of roadway. Next month, resurfacing projects for roads will go out for bid.
“We operate strictly on a worst, first-case basis,” said David Perri the Streets Commissioner. “The ones that come up as having the most defects.”
Ernie Bocolo, of Lexington Park, hopes one that one of those roads will be Lexington Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia, which is covered with potholes.
“There are moms, dads and kids on bikes,” Bocolo said. “Somebody is going to lose control one day. Someone is going to get hit.”
Experts say new asphalt generally holds up for ten years. However, brutal winters like the one we’ve experienced can cause roads to deteriorate faster. In his budget plan, Mayor Nutter pledged an additional $4 million for paving projects for the next fiscal year.
“You reach a point where just fixing the potholes is just not a solution,” Perri said. “Not a permanent fix for a street and we have to get in there and re-pave the street.”
Hundreds of concerned citiizens attend a meeting Monday night in Delaware City, to hear about plans to keep trains carrying crude oil safe. NBC10's George Spencer was at the meeting.
The discovery of a noose at a South Jersey construction site by two African-American workers has sparked an official police investigation.
On February 26, Vance Thorpe, 46, and his co-worker Kyle Winters, 43, both of Delaware, say they were working at a NIPRO Glass construction site in Millville, New Jersey. After returning from lunch, Thorpe claims he saw a noose hanging on the wall he and Wilson had been working on.
“It was disheartening,” said Thorpe, who, along with Winters, is African-American. “It took a piece of me.”
The men took a photo and then reported the incident to their supervisor at Access Labor Services, a construction and industrial temporary service based in Delaware.
The men told Delaware Online that they asked their supervisor if they could be assigned to another site. The men claimed however that the supervisor told them they couldn’t move them since it was under short notice and asked them to continue for another few days.
Winters decided not to return.
“They didn’t do nothing,” Winters said. “They told us to go back. I wasn’t going to go back.”
Thorpe stayed on for another week and a half to finish the work. Thorpe claims the only reason he didn’t quit was because he needed to support his newborn son.
Both men eventually filed a complaint with police.
Kurt Van Dal, the president of NIPRO Glass Americas, made the following statement regarding the incident:
This alleged incident was first made known to NIPRO on Friday March 7. NIPRO has not been contacted by any of the individuals alleged to be affected, nor by the local Police.
Even though NIPRO's only involvement in this alleged incident is that it has been described as occurring on a NIPRO job site preliminarily understood to be at a removed furnace tank location, where none of the workers are NIPRO employees, and where the construction workers referenced appear to be independent contractors or employees of a temporary employment agency hired by a sub contractor of the general contractor hired by NIPRO for the furnace construction. The allegations, if true, are contrary to NIPRO’s policies and rules, in addition to being contrary to training that is provided to all contractors hired by NIPRO. Therefore, NIPRO is contacting the investigating Police Department, the outside general contractor, their sub-contractor, and the temporary agency involved in the work to assure that a full and proper investigation is being conducted, and that any necessary, appropriate steps are taken.
NIPRO does not and will not condone any such acts as alleged on its property, and is acting to assure that firm policy is understood and complied with by any outside contractors and their workers on NIPRO property.
Millville Police are currently investigating and say the culprits could be charged with harassment, bias and intimidation. Meanwhile, Thorpe continues to provide for his young son, whom he hopes will never experience the racism that he believes he and his co-worker faced.
“I’m worried about my safety and possibly my life,” Thorpe said. “Then I started to get offended. Because I’m like for real? 2014? They’re doing this?”
At least one person was hurt and three people displaced after a building collapse in the Strawberry Mansion section of the city.
The vacant home, located at the intersection of Myrtlewood and Oakdale Streets, collapsed Monday shortly after 9 p.m. At least three residents inside neighboring homes were evacuated as a precaution.
Officials also say at least one person was injured after the collapse.
The victim was taken to Temple University Hospital and treated for minor injuries.
Joe Dennison, Jr. told NBC10 his empty car was crushed during the collapse.
"I just got off the bus coming home," Dennison said. "Thank God I wasn't in it."
The Red Cross is currently assisting the displaced residents. L&I officials have not yet revealed whether they will investigate the property.
Neighbors told NBC10 that they had contacted the city about the troubled home before the collapse.
An out-of-control car smashed into a Delaware town hall overnight sending at least one person to the hospital and leaving the town cleaning up bricks and debris.
A man was driving along Justis Street in Newport, Del. when he missed a curve, jumped a curb, hit a sign, drove over a stretch of lawn and smashed into Newport Old Town Hall around 1:30 a.m.
The impact of the wreck left gaping hole under a window in the side of the historic New Castle County building that is used for town meetings and court hearings in the town of about 1,000 residents.
The unidentified driver was rushed to the hospital and police say he is expected to be OK.
Newport Police said they would investigate to see if the driver was intoxicated.
Augustine Street at Justis Street was blocked off following the wreck.
Crews are expected to board up the hole later in the morning. It wasn't immediately clear if any structural damage was done.
Police searched for an intruder they consider armed and dangerous after a South Philadelphia mother was shot in her own bed overnight.
Philadelphia Police said the sleeping woman woke up to find a masked man standing over her inside her second-floor bedroom in a home on the 2200 block of Sears Street in the city’s Point Breeze section around 1:30 a.m.
The masked man, wearing all black, opened fire, according to police.
The 24-year-old woman was struck twice and rushed to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where she remained in stable condition early Tuesday.
The woman told police that the shooter ran out of the home and darted off towards Wharton Square Park.
The intruder broke in the door, according ton investigators.
"There is a sign of forced entry," said Philadelphia Chief Inspector Scott Small. "The door jamb has a lot of damage to it, the lock has a lot of damage to it so it appears the front door was forced (in.)"
Small said the motive for the shooting wasn't clear and also it wasn't clear if the intruder took anything from the home.
The incident could have been worse, the woman's 4-year-old child normally would be at the home but that child spent the night with a grandparent.
The suspect is considered armed and dangerous. If you spot the man you are asked to call 911.
