The penalty works out to an hour per egg.

Brandon Templin, the young man accused of hitting the Frank Rizzo statue with four eggs in August, accepted a judge's offer Tuesday to do four hours of community service in return for what Templin's lawyer called a conditional not guilty plea.

Templin, 26, whose address on court documents is listed as Maplewood, New Jersey, was one of two people charged during a couple weeks of intense protests at the statue in mid-August.

"He said, 'I can volunteer at a food kitchen for four hours and this will all be like it never happened? Great,'" one of his six pro bono attorneys, Michael Coard, said. 

He faced disorderly conduct and criminal mischief charges that will be dismissed if Templin completes the community service, Coard said.

Another man accused of vandalizing the Rizzo statue faces more serious charges for allegedly spraypainting the words "black power."

Wali Rahman, a former Philadelphia mayoral candidate who received about 3 percent of the vote in 2011, has a trial scheduled Nov. 29 on four charges stemming from the alleged incident.

They are criminal mischief, possession of an instrument of crime, institutional vandalism and intentional desecration of a public monument.

Others were arrested in the protests at the statue, including a Philadelphia school teacher charged with terroristic threats for allegedly threatening a police officer.

The debate over replacing the Rizzo statue is far from over, after thousands of proposals were submitted to the city at Mayor Jim Kenney's suggestion. The city will review all the proposals, and the Art Commission will eventually decide the statue's fate.

The superintendent of a Chester County school says a black baby doll hanging in a locker room appears to have been a “foolish prank” rather than racial intimidation.

An NBC10 viewer sent a photo of an African American doll hanging from the ceiling in a locker room at Coatesville Area High School. After pictures of the doll surfaced on social media, Dr. Cathy Taschner, the Superintendent of the Coatesville Area School District, responded to speculation that the incident was a hate crime.

“After our administrators interviewed team members, both white and black, it appears that this was a foolish prank and the intent was not to cause racial intimidation," Dr. Taschner wrote to parents, staff and community members Tuesday.

According to Taschner, members of the Coatesville cross country team found the doll in a trash can during a meet back on Sept. 1 and began playing with it. After their coach took the doll and tossed it in the trash, members of the team stuffed it into an open ceiling tile in the locker room.

“It was there for several weeks until a team member decided to use his tie to hang it down from the ceiling, where it was recently discovered, smeared with toothpaste,” Dr. Taschner wrote.

Taschner said they were first concerned that it was an intentional hate crime. After interviewing the team members, made up of both white and African American students, they determined it was a prank gone wrong. Despite this, Taschner said administrators will still meet with team members and their parents to discuss the incident and possible disciplinary action.

“Regardless, this is foolish and offensive, and not the kind of behavior we expect or accept from our students,” she wrote.

In her letter, Taschner also highlighted the work the school district has done with various groups in creating a safe and inclusive environment.

“We very much regret any upset and concern this incident has caused our students, staff, parents, or community members,” she wrote. “We will use this incident as a reminder that our actions really do matter, and that we expect our Coatesville Area School District students to act with integrity at all times.”

As protests from NFL players during the national anthem and the reactions from owners, fans and politicians continue to spark debate, a former college football player is speaking out after he was cut from the team for kneeling during the national anthem.

“At some point in life, there’s going to be a time when you’ve got to take a stand,” said Gyree Durante. “For me it just happened to be on Saturday afternoon.”

The Norristown native is a sophomore at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, and was a backup quarterback on the football team. On Saturday, for the second game in a row, Durante kneeled during the national anthem, a gesture that he said was a protest against social injustices and racism in the country. After doing so, he was kicked off the team.

“I was just taught you fight for what you believe in and you don’t bow to anyone,” Durante said. “I believe heavily in this. So I decided to fight for it.”

A spokeswoman for Albright College said in a statement to NBC10 that Durante was kicked off the team for going against a unified decision.

The players made a team-wide decision to kneel during the coin toss and stand during the national anthem before their Oct. 7 game against Delaware Valley University, according to the spokeswoman.

“This action, which was supported by the coaching staff, was created as an expression of team unity and out of the mutual respect team members have for one another and the value they place on their differences,” she wrote. “It was established as a way to find common ground in a world with many differing views.”

The spokeswoman said the action was recommended by the team’s leadership council, which is made up of 24 student-athletes selected annually by team members. She also said the players had an understanding that there may be consequences for anyone who chose not to support the team.

“One football player, who unbeknownst to the coach and the team, chose not to support team unity and has been dismissed from the team,” she wrote. “He remains a valued member of the Albright College student body.”

Two of Durante’s former teammates, freshmen Stephen Glynn and Josh Powell, told NBC10 they understood where he was coming from when he decided to protest but also believe he acted selfishly and broke the team’s trust. They claim Durante agreed to stand for the anthem after the team came to a unified decision.

“We trusted him throughout the week, after time and time again he told us he would stand,” Powell said. “When you can’t have a player on a team that you can trust, he’s got to go.”

Durante’s family posted on social media that the issue was bigger than football and that they hoped the incident motivated him even more to fight social injustice. Durante says he will continue to stand up for what he believes in and is considering transferring in the near future.

Wildfires are swallowing entire neighborhoods, businesses and wineries. At least 17 people have died in the fires and there are 17 active fires burning across California. NBC10's Randy Gyllenhaal has the latest images from out west.

A New Jersey house whose current owners were scared off the property by a creepy letter writer known as "The Watcher" is up for sale again.

Derek and Maria Broaddus bought the Westfield home in 2014, but they didn't move in after receiving the first of four letters from the anonymous stalker. The family tells NJ.com that the letter writer requested information about their children.

The house, which went up for sale on Monday, was previously listed in March 2016.

The Broadduses say they can't live in the house because of the letters, which they say came from someone with a "mentally disturbed fixation" on the home. They say they received the last letter earlier this year. The family's attorneyLee Levitt said the letter contained specific threats and was "more derogatory and sinister than any of the previous letters."

In one of the earlier correspondences, the stalker asked whether the new family brought him the "young blood" that he requested.

Westfield police have previously said there's no suspect in the case.

Just recently, the house was listed on a new report as the top urban legend in New Jersey. 

A fuel tanker truck wreck closed a busy Delaware highway for hours Wednesday morning.

The crash around 8:20 a.m. closed both directions of State Route 1, state police said. Troopers blocked the northbound lanes at Exit 119 in Smyrna and the southbound lanes at Route 299 in Middletown.

DelDOT called the overturned tanker truck crash a hazmat situation. Debris littered the roadway along with the crushed-in cab as the damaged tanker was sideways along the grassy shoulder.

Police warned drivers to "expect lengthy delays in the area." DelDOT said U.S. Route 13 could be used as an alternate route.

No word yet if the truck driver was injured.

State police investigated the cause of the rollover wreck.

Keep checking back for breaking traffic updates.

This may be the most difficult thing I have ever written about. I have tried dozens of times over the past few months, but each time I simply stare at the computer and begin to cry. No parent ever wants to hear the words “your child has a large, life threatening brain tumor” yet we heard those exact words last July. It was the worst moment of my life. This is a story of tragedy, bravery and a very big miracle. So many people were involved and so many things needed to fit perfectly in place for this story to end well.

Caleb is our only child. He is a funny, sweet 8-year-old boy who loves baseball, fishing, swimming, soccer, Transformers, animals, music and pizza…lots and lots of pizza. His story began last spring. I had just started my new job at NBC10 in Philadelphia and Caleb was finishing 2nd grade back in Chicago. Greg and he planned to join me in Philadelphia by summer. We spent weekends together and made lists of what we would do and see first in Philadelphia. Caleb listed the Liberty Bell, so that was top of the list. I remember Greg calling on a weekday morning in early April. He said Caleb had woken up screaming about a headache, then vomited and went back to sleep. That had never happened before and Greg was ready to head for the doctor’s office when Caleb woke up and said he felt fine. Strangely, my first thought was a brain tumor, but he suffers from seasonal allergies and so we convinced ourselves that was the cause. We were wrong.

Over the next few days I will share from my journal what we experienced in the hope that this will help other parents to recognize the warning signs and know what steps to take. I also want to draw attention to the fact that pediatric brain tumor research is near the bottom of all tumor research and funding yet it is a major cause of death in children.  

Meet Caleb's Doctor

Dr. Amanda Saratsis, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Brain Tumor Research at Lurie Children's Hospital

Modifying the Future

Research Highlights

CHOP's Neuro Oncology Program

Children's Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium (Lead by CHOP)

Donate to Lurie Children's

Brain Tumor Research

General

Donate to Neurosurgery Work at CHOP

This is part one and two of a three part series. Watch Part 3 of Caleb's story on NBC10 News on Wednesday afternoon.

Some people called the mannequin doll that was stolen from the Wendy's on Chestnut Street in Center City Philadelphia "creepy." It was last seen last month after a large crowd came into the fast food restaurant. The store is working to find a replacement.

The president of a Main Line board of commissioners faces child porn charges for having images depicting infants and other children involved in sex acts.

Radnor Township Board President Philip Ahr, 66, is accused of possession and distribution of images that depict children engaged in sex acts with adults, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan announced.

Ahr turned himself into investigators Wednesday morning and is set to be arraigned in the afternoon.

The child porn charges came about three weeks after authorities raided Ahr’s Meredith Avenue home.

Ahr hasn’t responded to NBC10’s past attempts for comment. It’s unclear if he has an attorney who could comment on the allegations.

The Democrat missed the board's Sept. 25 meeting following the raid of his home. No bio is submitted on his Radnor board page.

This story is developing. Please check back for updates.

Facebook and Instagram went down for many users on Wednesday, with problems on the social media giant spiking, according to the website status-tracking page Downdetector.

Facebook acknowledged that people weren't able to use the site, or Instagram, which it owns. 

"We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible," a Facebook representative said.

There were thousands of reports of problems starting Tuesday morning about 10 a.m. ET, though the spike receded about three hours later. The reports came from across the nation, Europe and South America, according to Downdetector's map.

It wasn't immediately clear caused the issue.

Facebook's troubleshooting dashboard noted an increased level of in errors. A company that links to Facebook's back-end in order to let companies post to social media, SocialFLow, said there was a problem in a tweet before noon.

Under the watchful eye of William Penn near Philadelphia City Hall, undocumented immigrant Javier Flores Garcia stepped into fresh air for the first time in almost 11 months Wednesday morning.

“It was painful watching parents with their kids walk around here and not be able to do the same,” he said. “It’s very hard and very difficult.”

The 40-year-old found sanctuary at the United Methodist Church on Broad and Arch streets shortly after President Donald Trump was elected to office. It was a form of resistance, but also an attempt to protect his family by remaining close enough to still see them and be a part of their lives.

“True liberation is rooted in love. This is a love story,” the Rev. Robin Hynicka, senior pastor at the church, said. “It’s traumatic to see him go. But it’s more traumatic to see him detained and separated from his family.”

Flores has lived in Philadelphia on and off since 1997. He has been caught several times crossing into the United States from his native Puebla, the Mexican state recently ravaged by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake. On a few of those occasions, he voluntarily turned around but always came back to reunite with his wife and three children.

He also has a driving under the influence conviction.

In 2004, the former landscaper was stabbed by two men carrying boxcutters and left for dead in Bensalem. While in the hospital, he helped local officials track down and prosecute his attackers. Because of his help and otherwise good standing in the community, his deportation orders were dropped, Flores’ lawyer, Brennan Gian-Grasso, said.

Flores is now eligible for a U Visa, which grants temporary status to victims of crime who help authorities investigate and prosecute. After leaving the church Wednesday, he went to the immigration office to have his ankle monitor removed and to begin the process of gaining temporary status.

"He can get a work permit and be with his family now," Gian-Grasso said.

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Flores' release coincided with Trump’s visit to Pennsylvania. He will appear Wednesday evening alongside U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, the former mayor of Hazleton who introduced a series of anti-immigrant legislation during his tenure. His bills have included English the official language and fining businesses that hired undocumented workers.

In Philadelphia, Mayor Jim Kenney has repeatedly challenged the Trump administration’s immigration policy, declaring the city a sanctuary and refusing to ask police to volunteer the immigration status of people.

Last month, the city sued U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions over the rights of sanctuary cities. Philadelphia hopes to prevent Sessions from imposing new and “unprecedented” requirements on grant funds as a backlash to the city's leniency towards undocumented immigrants. 

“The mayor is very happy for Javier and his family,” Lauren Hitt, spokeswoman for Mayor Jim Kenney, said. “It doesn’t make any sense we have an immigration policy that would tear families apart and force hard-working people out.”

Kenney and Flores have met at the church on at least one occasion, Hitt said. They will likely meet again when Flores’ immigration process is complete.

On Wednesday, clergy members called Flores “a citizen of the world.” He spent his time painting, fixing odds and ends and cooking in the church kitchen while living there.

He first met advocates from immigrant rights group Juntos while Pope Francis visited Philadelphia in 2015. At that time, Flores was in the midst of being held at the York County and Pike County detention centers, where he was detained for 16 months. His daughter, now 12, held a sign that read “Help Us Father.” The Pope stopped to bless her, the family said.

Juntos helped Flores find legal representation and also seek medical attention for his children, some of whom were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after witnessing their father’s ordeal, Gian-Grasso said.

“When you see the kids’ faces, there is no way you can say no,” Erika Almiron, executive director of Juntos, said. “What this [outcome] means is resistance works. This is a day to celebrate freedom.”

Flores’ has been granted deferred status, which means he can live and work in the U.S. and continue to apply for visas. His current designation prevents Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from arresting him at a time when raids are sweeping the nation.

Recently, 107 undocumented immigrants were arrested in Pennsylvania. More than 20 percent were in Philadelphia, the city with the most arrests. Los Angeles was second with 101 arrests.

Among those arrested in Philadelphia was a citizen of the Dominican Republic who entered the country illegally and had previous convictions for possession of firearms, ICE said. The 498 people arrested in the national operation came from 42 countries and 312 of them had criminal convictions.

With the threat of more ICE actions lingering, having a temporary reprieve feels like a blessing, Flores said.

“We have to say to everyone in a similar situation as me ‘Keep fighting because after the torment comes peace,’” he said.

Read Part 1: 'Tragedy, Bravery and a Very Big Miracle'

This is the second installment of NBC10 First Alert Weather chief meteorologist Tammie Souza’s story of her son Caleb battling a brain tumor.

The Subtle Symptoms

A month later Caleb had another migraine episode similar to the first one. Again, we assumed it was allergies. Then in late May the school nurse called to say Caleb was in the office complaining of a stomachache. He had told me earlier that week some of his friends faked being sick to go home early, so naturally I thought he might be faking too. In retrospect I feel guilty even thinking that. Caleb had never lied to us and never faked being sick. He came home early that day, rested for an hour and seemed to be fine.

It was around this time Greg noticed Caleb would sometimes be off balance if he stood up quickly. This was a symptom we chalked up to a gangly, fast growing beanpole of a child. Another subtle symptom was his vision. In April, Caleb complained that words were blurry when he would read close up. So, we assumed he may need glasses and paid a visit to the eye doctor who gave Caleb’s vision a clean bill of health. He never mentioned blurry vision again, but he also failed to tell us that he was seeing double at times.

It was his 2nd year of baseball and his batting seemed off. Admittedly most kid’s baseball skills are terrible at that age, which is why they are so darn cute to watch. In Caleb’s case he saw two baseballs coming at him instead of one. He never told us about that and we assumed batting was just not his strong suit. In mid-June Greg, Caleb and Hawley, our dog, accompanied me as I travelled for a week to finish work on my master’s degree. Caleb was tired and didn’t feel well for two days on that trip, but because I had been battling a cold we assumed he was too. By weeks end we both seemed fine and while I flew back to Philadelphia for work they headed off for a boy’s trip to fish and visit family in Florida.

The next two weeks were a turning point for Caleb’s health. The migraines, vomiting and dizziness increased in frequency. Yet each time he was fine for several days afterward leaving us even more confused. Now that initial instinct I had of a brain tumor was a full-blown concern. Greg cut the trip short and returned to Chicago where the first stop was Caleb’s pediatrician. Of course, Caleb exhibited none of the symptoms we had seen, so a battery of tests was ordered… everything except an MRI. This is where I regret not being a pushy parent and insisting on an MRI that minute. While we awaited the test results Caleb’s episodes got worse. Two days later we took him to the emergency room. They hydrated him, observed him and sent him home. No MRI.

The next three days he was back to normal, no headaches, eating like a little pig, smiling laughing, playing baseball. Then on the fourth day Greg called to tell me Caleb was talking, but not making sense. He was also complaining of a headache and very dizzy. They headed to the doctor, I was working at NBC 10 and so I was on speaker phone during the exam. My first words were “Is the MRI scheduled?” and the doctor answered “yes, I ordered one STAT.” The doctor finally saw all of the symptoms we had been describing and he told us this was either a brain tumor or gastrointestinal and we would have an answer very soon. It was then my heart sank, I knew it was a tumor. You see what I haven’t shared up until this point is my sister Ann who died of a malignant brain tumor when we were children.

My mind and body went on auto pilot at work. Everything was a blur as I waited for Greg to call me back after the MRI. I vaguely remember the newscasts that evening. During the 6 p.m. newscast Jacqueline (London) asked how Caleb was doing, we had discussed his headaches several weeks before. I told her he was at the hospital getting an MRI. Both her and Jim Rosenfield were shocked and offered to stay with me at the station while I waited. I wanted to be alone and opted to go home for the phone call. Already things began to spin around me. How could this possibly be happening? And then my phone rang.

The Nightmare Phone Call No Parent Ever Wants to Receive

Greg was sobbing and I knew instantly. I don’t know if was shock or angry at myself for not acting sooner, but my first response was “I knew it.” The guilt and pain and fear for my son was almost too much to bear at that instant. I sat down, placed my head between my legs and cried. Greg sent me this text image of the lemon size tumor and orange size capsule taking up nearly half of Caleb’s brain. It was clear Caleb had been in great pain and in retrospect complained so little. How did we miss this as parents?

Greg was beyond words and asked me to call the doctor for details. He told me an ambulance had been called to take Caleb to Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago where a pediatric neurosurgeon named Dr. Amanda Saratsis would evaluate Caleb’s tumor and give us a diagnosis. Because of his condition there was no option of travel to any other hospital including The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Thankfully, Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago is considered one of the best in the nation, like CHOP.

During our call, Caleb’s doctor did mention this may be an operable tumor, so I Googled pediatric brain tumors to prepare myself for what we may be facing. Did you know there are dozens and dozens of different brain tumors? Being a person of faith, I just knelt and prayed openly to God, Jesus, Mary and the Guardian Angels to spare my little boy and for mercy, guidance and strength so Caleb, Greg and could handle this crisis. Then I called my boss Anzio Williams, I pride myself on not crying in the work place, but I started sobbing while I explained the situation and my need to leave now. His first words were let me get you a flight, just head to the airport. We were shorthanded in the weather department that day and there was no one to finish my shift, but he told me not to think about it and to just get myself on the plane. I started throwing things in a suitcase and headed for the airport. I would later find out I had mismatched shoes, lots of yoga pants and little else. In the car I called my other boss, Kathy Gerrow, who told me my only job now was taking care of Caleb. She would cover my shifts and take care of anything else I needed. I was grateful and speechless at how quickly they sprang into action to help.

The hardest call was to my parents to tell them their only grandchild has a brain tumor. Remember they had lost my sister, their daughter, to a brain tumor. We cried together, they hung up and made plans to be in Chicago the next day. Meanwhile, I was on the last flight to Chicago that night and it was only when I arrived at the airport that I realized I was still wearing the pink lace dress I had worn on TV that evening. I didn’t want to show up at the hospital in a pink frock and since so much had already happened that night, I guess it didn’t seem strange to ask the female gate agent at Southwest to help me get the zipper down on my dress so I could go change into one of the plethora of yoga pants I had packed. That’s when Mother Nature stepped in and my flight was delayed 3 hours – due to severe weather in Chicago. If that isn’t irony I don’t know what is. When we landed there was another hour delay on the taxiway due to lightning in the area.

I finally made it to the hospital at 5 in the morning. Caleb was stable and resting. The pediatric nurse came to check him every 30 minutes while Greg and I sat quietly and waited for the neurosurgeon to meet with us.

Later today at 4 p.m. we will air part 3 of Caleb’s VIDEO story told by my friend and colleague Jim Rosenfield. I will also post the remainder of my Caleb’s story blog. I thought we had lost him when he collapsed and coded just hours after arriving at the hospital. From his resuscitation and 7-hour emergency surgery to the recovery and prognosis. You’ll meet his amazing surgeon and learn why more funding is needed for research on pediatric brain tumors. Also, how Angels, a miracle, music, the Cubs, family and the kindness of strangers played a large part in his story and how Caleb schooled all of us with his kindness, manners and bravery during the crisis. Finally, what Caleb remembers about all of this.

Meet Caleb's Doctor

Dr. Amanda Saratsis, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Brain Tumor Research at Lurie Children's Hospital

Modifying the Future

Research Highlights

CHOP's Neuro Oncology Program

Children's Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium (Lead by CHOP)

Donate to Lurie Children's

Brain Tumor Research

General

Donate to Neurosurgery Work at CHOP

This is part two of a three part series. Watch Part 3 of Caleb's story on NBC10 News on Wednesday afternoon.

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One was labeled "Eagles Fan" because the homeowner had an team banner on the front lawn.

Another was marked "Crazy Cat Lady" because the resident had a sign saying as such outside her house.

Yet another had "Proud American" for the flag waving out front of the house.

There was a personal touch on many of the estimated 5,000 flyers mailed to residents of three entire boroughs in the far northwest corner of Montgomery County this week.

"It's kind of creepy," said one resident in an interview with NBC10. "Obviously, someone took a lot of time and spent a lot of money."

The flyers, which depicted seemingly home-drawn racist, anti-Semitic and pro-white messages, ended up in the mailboxes of Red Hill, Pennsburg and East Greenville. The adjacent boroughs along Route 29 and near the borders with Berks and Lehigh counties have a combined population of roughly 9,200 residents.

East Greenville interim police Chief Andrew Skelton said it appeared that the person behind the flyers hand-delivered some even though all of the thousands of mailings had stamps.

Skelton noted that despite the offensive nature of the flyers, no crime was committed.

"Hate crime requires two things: hateful motivation coupled with a crime, like assault," Skelton said. "This was a hateful message, but we're lacking a secondary criminal element."

He said it's the first such mass mailing during his several months as interim chief in East Greenville, but the retired state police trooper said he heard that similar flyers were mailed to residents in nearby Upper Hanover in the last several weeks.

Messages sent to emails associated with a website link on the flyers were not returned.

What would you call the area north of Cecil B Moore Avenue, south of Lehigh Avenue, west of Front Street and east of 6th Street?

For years, residents have called it Norris Square, Kensington, South Kensington and even Olde Kensington. Now, a local developer is throwing a new name into the ring: Stonewall Heights.

“A lot of people like the name,” Paul Janaitis said. “It’s not meant to offend anybody. I don’t understand why people are taking it as an offense.”

Janaitis has lived in the neighborhood for 12 years. He also happens to own a building company with a familiar name: Stonewall Contracting. The name itself doesn’t have any real symbolism, aside from some well-placed wordplay, he said. But naming the neighborhood after his business didn’t seem like a stretch.

“I put out a [monthly] newspaper that’s called the Stonewall Heights Review,” he said. “I live in the area, am friends with local businesses in the area. I would guess there’s already at least half a dozen names for the area.”

But some residents and neighbors are not happy with the name change.

“It is pretty galling for somebody to attempt to give a fancy new name to these tight-knit communities,” Jessica Noon, South Kensington Community Partners board member, told Philly Mag.

“It’s so infuriating and bewildering. I can’t imagine how anyone thought this was a good idea. There’s not even a connection between the name and the history of the neighborhood.”

Noon isn’t alone. At least one of Janaitis’ realtors has received threatening phone calls after Janaitis started posting Stonewall Heights signs throughout the area.

The messages say things like “You better take these signs down,” “Who do you think you are?” and “This isn’t your neighborhood,” Janaitis said.

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Philadelphia might be a city of neighborhoods, but those neighborhoods are not always clearly or legally defined.

Consider University City District, the area bordering the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University and 30th Street Station. It was created 20 years ago as part of a bigger redevelopment plan to drive business, attract visitors and highlight some of the city’s most notable institutions.

But before Penn and Drexel expanded their campuses, portions of West Philadelphia - framed by 33rd and 40th streets to the east and west and Powelton and University avenues to the north and south - was called Black Bottom. That neighborhood was established in the late 1800s by primarily southern blacks fleeing Jim Crow laws. The community was displaced by Penn’s expansion and other urban renewal plans. Eventually, Black Bottom ended and University City was created.

And then there’s the neighborhood just east of Kensington. Most people would agree it’s called Fishtown, but where does Fishtown end and Port Richmond begin? That line is so confusing that some people have jokingly adopted the name Port Fishington.

Historian Rich Boardman has identified at least 685 neighborhoods in Philadelphia since 1778, according to Philly.com. For instance, Mt. Airy used to be called Beggarstown

“The city has no role in determining names. We don’t have neighborhood boundaries. It’s up to the neighborhood to name it whatever they want it to be,” Paul Chrystie, spokesman for the Department of Planning and Development, said.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro joined a list of law enforcement officials from across the country and women's groups in filing a lawsuit Wednesday against the Trump administration over the new contraceptive rules.

The White House issued the new rules Friday that would broaden the moral and religious exemptions allowed for companies that seek to stop providing free birth-control to female employees. Hundreds of thousands of women receive free contraceptives through employers' insurance plans as part of a requirement in the Affordable Care Act.

Shapiro claims in the suit that the new rules violate the due process clause of the fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“The federal government – under the direction of the Trump Administration – broke the law and undermined the health and economic independence of American women,” Shapiro said today at a news conference at a Planned Parenthood center in Philadelphia.

His lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, comes a day after Washington state's attorney general filed a lawsuit there that also challenges the new rules.

Previously, AGs in California and Massachusetts also sued to nullify the rules.

Fourteen people overdosed in Camden in a four-hour period Wednesday from what the New Jersey attorney general described as "fentanyl-laced heroin."

None of the 14 died, but most of them were taken to Cooper University Medical Center. All of the overdoses occurred in the South Camden area, Camden County police department spokesman Dan Keashen said.

The series of incidents took place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with many occurring on Broadway south of the Police Administration Building.

Police made an arrest related to the overdoses, Keashen said.

New Jersey Attorney General Chris Porrino later tweeted from his personal account with a sense of urgency about the "mass overdose."

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A Philadelphia elementary school has been closed due to traces of mold being found in the classroom.

Philadelphia School District officials say they first received a report of a possible mold issue at John B. Kelly Elementary School on 5100 Pulaski Avenue.

Traces of mold were found in several classrooms of the school after heating, ventilating and air-conditioning issues, according to officials. An environmental remediation contractor and other workers began to remove the problem at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. Officials say work should be finished Wednesday night.

J.B. Kelly will be closed to students and staff Thursday as officials continue to investigate the cause of the mold.

The closure comes as schools in the Monroe Township School District in Gloucester County due to mold being found in one of its elementary schools.

A Philadelphia man has been charged in the murder of his girlfriend whose remains were found at a construction site after she went missing three years ago.

Jermele Hudson, 43, of Philadelphia is charged in the death of 40-year-old Pamela Lewis.

Lewis was first reported missing by family members on August 4, 2014. Investigators say Lewis had been involved in a physical altercation with Hudson, who was her boyfriend at the time, prior to her disappearance.
Lewis’ disappearance remained unsolved until June 19 of this year when contractors digging at a construction site on the 1700 block of W. Atlantic Street found bones at the location. At first the contractors believed they were animal bones.

On June 27, the contractors were once again digging at the location when they found what appeared to be a human jawbone wrapped in pink terry cloth as well as a hip bone, ribs and pelvic bone within the debris. Investigators determined the remains were that of Lewis and that Hudson murdered her.

Hudson was arrested Wednesday and charged with murder, abuse of a corpse and other related offenses.

NBC10 Responds follows a local Philadelphia resident who claims that a Northeast Philadelphia Firestone Complete Auto Care damaged his vehicle instead of fixing it when he took it in for repairs. NBC10's Harry Hairston has the story.