An old abandoned building in Odessa, Delaware is providing a new program to benefit veterans. After trading in their weapons, these vets are using much smaller tools to create a new sense of purpose through the Veterans Watchmakers Initiative. NBC10's Delaware Bureau reporter Tim Furlong has the story.

A local school district is speaking out after racist symbols carved into pumpkins made the rounds on social media.

The photo shows current and former Coatesville Area High School students posing with pumpkins with the “KKK” symbol and a swastika carved into them. A spokesperson for the Coatesville Area School District told NBC10 they don’t believe the photo was taken on school grounds or during school hours.

The district still condemned the photos however and turned them over to police while contacting the parents of the students who were pictured.

“We are extremely disappointed that any of our students would display this kind of hatred and vile behavior,” the spokesperson wrote. “It’s reprehensible and intolerable, and this photo causes deep sadness and concern. We work extremely hard to promote a tolerant, respectful, inclusive learning environment, and this is in direct opposition to everything we stand for and believe in.”

The spokesperson said the district will continue to investigate the incident and also work with other groups, including the PA Human Relations Commission, Mid Atlantic Equity Center, and NAACP this week as they have conversations with students about racism.

The photo follows another recent controversy at Coatesville Area High School in which members of the school’s cross country team took a photo of a doll hanging from the ceiling inside a locker room. The Superintendent of the Coatesville Area School District said the students responsible claimed it was a foolish prank with no intent of racial intimidation. School officials are still considering possible disciplinary action against the students however.

It was almost a week ago when 27-year-old Michael Corsello walked out of the hospital and spoke to NBC10’s Aaron Baskerville after nearly dying from a heroin overdose.

“My hands were bound,” Corsello said while describing the hours he spent in the emergency room. “They said that I was freaking out. I was punching myself in the face. They said that I was screaming at the top of my lungs. I was going ballistic and then I just dropped.”

Corsello, a father of three, was one of 14 people who overdosed on fentanyl-laced heroin in a four-hour period in Camden, New Jersey back on Oct. 11. He held heroin in his hands immediately after leaving the hospital and told NBC10 he planned on using it as soon as he finished the interview. He also desperately wanted to share a message about the toll his addiction had taken on him.

"I have bald spots in my head," he said while fighting back tears. "I've gotta wear a Mohawk for the rest of my life. I've got scars all over my body because of this drug. I want every kid to understand, if they can stay away from this, I've ruined three families."

On Tuesday, Corsello spoke to NBC10 again, admitting that he hasn’t been there for his three children and that he used heroin after he finished last week’s interview.

“I used for the rest of the weekend,” Corsello said.

Little did Corsello know, his words Wednesday night would have an impact. When the founders of Liberation Way Rehabilitation in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania saw our report, they jumped into action.

“It was, ‘Go. How do we find him? Let’s give him an opportunity,’” said Liberation Way Chief Network Officer Michael Armstrong.

Staff members at the alcohol and drug rehab center spent several days trying to track Corsello down. They finally found him at his aunt’s home in Gloucester City, New Jersey where he had walked for an hour from Camden to beg for a shower. Now, less than a week after a near-fatal overdose, he’s agreed to get well.

“The only promise that I have to myself right now is that I’m going to be open to suggestions and really fight,” he said.

Tuesday marked day one of a 14-day detox for Corsello.

“An individual that goes through our program is kind of crawling, walking and then running,” Armstrong said.

Corsello was offered a free ride to a Fort Washington rehab center where phase two will be inpatient therapy.

“I didn’t realize the grasp it was gonna take on my life,” Corsello said. “So hold me accountable for picking up but I didn’t ask to be addicted. I didn’t ask to actually fall under this spell.”

While Corsello admits he’s scared about the battle he faces, he’s also optimistic.

“Terrified,” he said. “But I’m more scared of my past. I just have hope in the fact that I feel so good right now. I’m so excited for tomorrow for once.”

As the nation continues to deal with the devastating opioid epidemic, Armstrong believes one success story can go a long way.

“The ripple effect of him changing and getting better and finding recovery and giving that back is immeasurable,” Armstrong said.

Corsello knows however that his opportunity will be meaningless if he doesn’t put in the effort.

“The only thing good about addiction is beating it,” he said.

The proliferation of opioids continues to claim more lives across the nation than car crashes and homicides. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 142 people die from a drug overdose every day. Half of the deaths are linked to opioids.

President Donald Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national emergency in August at the urging of the presidential opioid commission. The commission is led by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has focused his last months in office around combating the opioid epidemic.

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16 Inmates Face Murder Charges in Delaware Prison Uprising: Sixteen prisoners face first-degree murder charges in the killing of corrections officer Lt. Steven Floyd during a Delaware prison uprising earlier this year. Nine of the accused are already convicted killers. Besides the murder charges, the inmates at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center are also accused of injuring two other corrections officers and kidnapping a prison counselor. The charges were revealed in a New Castle County Grand Jury indictment unsealed Tuesday. The two-day prison riot at the Smyrna facility broke out in early February. Floyd, 47, was found dead after the prolonged hostage standoff. A medical examiner ruled his death a homicide by trauma.

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Mom Faces Murder Charges for Drowning Kids in Bathtub: A Delaware mother is charged with murder after admitting to drowning her young children in the bathtub of their Wilmington row home, police said Tuesday. Kula Pelima led officers to the bodies of 3-month-old Solomen Epelle and 5-year-old Alex Epelle Monday morning following a call to 911, Wilmington Police Chief Robert Tracy said. It was the second time police had visited Pelima's W. 9th Street home in a matter of hours. Around 3:30 a.m. that day, she called police over fears she'd be deported by U.S. immigration officials, Tracy said. The 30-year-old is a Liberian immigrant who has been in the United States since 1997. Her fears were apparently born in the arrest of the boys' father, Victor Epelle, who was detained earlier this month by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in York, Pennsylvania. The officer told Pelima she wouldn't be deported by Wilmington police and pointed her toward state resources for help. Hours later, police allege she drowned the boys. She recently gave birth to Solomen, but Alex was not her biological son.

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High School Students Pose with Swastika and KKK Pumpkins: A local school district is speaking out after racist symbols carved into pumpkins made the rounds on social media. The photo shows current and former Coatesville Area High School students posing with pumpkins with the “KKK” symbol and a swastika carved into them. A spokesperson for the Coatesville Area School District told NBC10 they don’t believe the photo was taken on school grounds or during school hours. The district still condemned the photos however and turned them over to police while contacting the parents of the students who were pictured. “We are extremely disappointed that any of our students would display this kind of hatred and vile behavior,” the spokesperson wrote. “It’s reprehensible and intolerable, and this photo causes deep sadness and concern. We work extremely hard to promote a tolerant, respectful, inclusive learning environment, and this is in direct opposition to everything we stand for and believe in.” The spokesperson said the district will continue to investigate the incident and also work with other groups, including the PA Human Relations Commission, Mid Atlantic Equity Center, and NAACP this week as they have conversations with students about racism.

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Judge in Hawaii Blocks Latest Trump Travel Restrictions: A federal judge in Hawaii blocked most of President Donald Trump's latest travel ban Tuesday, just hours before it was set to take effect, saying the revised order "suffers from precisely the same maladies as its predecessor.” It was the third set of travel restrictions issued by the president to be thwarted, in whole or in part, by the courts. U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson issued the ruling after the ban on a set of mostly Muslim countries was challenged by the state of Hawaii, which warned that the restrictions would separate families and undermine the recruiting of diverse college students. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders called the ruling "dangerously flawed" and said it "undercuts the president's efforts to keep the American people safe." The Justice Department said it will quickly appeal.

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A pair of crashes, almost 30 miles apart in two different counties, slowed traffic along busy Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania Wednesday morning.

A pickup truck hauling a trailer, a car and a tractor-trailer crashed in the northbound lanes near the Route 413 (Bristol) Exit in Bucks County shortly after 6:30 a.m. All lanes were blocked for at least 45 minutes causing at least a 5-mile backup.

The force of the Bristol crash left the pickup truck with front-end damage and its trailer on top of the sedan.

Two people suffered minor injuries in the crash.

A short time earlier, a car overturned and blocked the northbound ramp of I-95 to the Platt Bridge, near the Philadelphia Airport. No word yet if anyone was hurt in the wreck.

Expect continued delays in both areas.

NBC10 First Alert Traffic reporter Jessica Boyington will be updating both crash scenes through the morning.

Firefighters doused trash that caught fire as it spilled as a freight train derailed in Philadelphia Wednesday morning.

No injuries were reported as the box car and another car went off the tracks near 32nd and W Thompson streets in the cities, Brewerytown neighborhood.

Around 7:30 a.m., firefighters could be seen dousing the CSX car that tipped along a curve in the tracks. It was not a hazmat situation, the fire department said.

No commuter trains use the tracks, SEPTA said.

This story is developing and will be updated.

On Wednesday, you can ask NBC's Jeff Rossen your consumer questions on NBC10's Facebook page live at 10 a.m. Rossen has tackled everything from helmet safety to hurricane schemes in his Today Show reports.

An 87-year-old woman says she faces eviction because her grandson visits her New Jersey apartment daily to bring her food and get her mail.

Rose Dimaria, who was recently treated for breast cancer and suffers from an irregular heartbeat, has lived in a Lodi Public Housing Authority home for 67 years. That's why she said she was confused when she received an eviction threat in the mail claiming she violated her lease by letting an 'unauthorized visitor' – her grandson, 40-year-old Gregory Ciccione – come too frequently.

"He brings me coffee every morning, and a roll or a doughnut," Dimaria said. "It’s nice to have company – I don’t understand what is wrong with that."

According to a letter sent to police by the housing authority administrators, Ciccione has previously served 3 years for mail fraud with his former business.

Ciccione admitted to his crime but insists he hasn’t tampered with his grandmother’s mail.

"Taking care of an elder should not be something that I am forced to stop doing or be bullied into not doing because of past history," he said.

Instead, Ciccione said he felt the letter was an elaborate scheme to spite him, not his grandmother.

"It’s absolutely directed at me,” he told News 4. "There’s outside family members who I no longer interact with, and it’s been a tumultuous several years between my divorce and who took sides over several cases. In their attack on me, it’s affecting my grandmother."

The Lodi Public Housing Authority says its priority is the health, safety, and well-being of all tenants.

Dimaria will have a hearing before any action is taken.

A West Philadelphia high school was put on lockdown for about an hour Wednesday morning after a teacher reported hearing a gunshot and a student possibly saw a gunman run out of the building, Philadelphia police said.

Officers searched Overbrook High School after the reports came in around 9:20 a.m. but they found no evidence of a shooting, police said.

A teacher claimed to hear a gunshot and the student claimed to see a classmate running from the school on Lancaster Avenue with a firearm, police said.

Police set up a staging area near the school as detectives searched for whether gunshots were actually fired. 

No injuries were reported.

The lockdown was lifted around 10:20 a.m.

The Philadelphia School District didn't immediately reply to requests for comment.

Dozens of people in Allentown are disappointed and disgusted with the lack of hurricane relief in Puerto Rico. The group is headed to Washington D.C. Wednesday to rally for more help. NBC10's Randy Gyllennhaal has more about their trip and cause.

More than a quarter of all Americans suffer from sleep Apnea and many do not know they have it. The disorder restricts airflow, interrupting your sleep. NBC10's Jessica Boyington shares her sleep secrets.

The hunt is on for the person who shot a teenager along Highland Boulevard in New Castle, Delaware overnight. NBC10's Matt DeLucia has more details on the shooting.

A tragedy at their home causes a family to buy new laptops. But when they didn't get what they paid for they called Harry Hairston and NBC10 Responds.

The man sought for a pair of shootings that spanned two states — leaving three dead and three others hurt — has been caught in Delaware following a daylong manhunt, police in Wilmington said.

Radee Labeeb Prince, 37, was captured on foot along Four Seasons Parkway near Clover Mill Drive in Newark, Delaware around 7 p.m. Wednesday, police said.

Prince was the central character in a massive manhunt that stretched from Maryland to New York.

Local, state and federal authorities spent nearly 12 hours looking for Prince. It was ATF agents who ultimately took him into custody a short time after his getaway vehicle was found outside Wilmington.

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Prince is accused of walking into his job at Advanced Granite Solutions, a Edgewood, Maryland granite company, just before 9 a.m. Wednesday and opening fire on his co-workers.

Five staffers were hit. Three were killed, police said.

The gunman then sped 51 miles north in his black 2008 GMC Acadia to Wilmington where he confronted an acquaintance, Jason Baul.

Baul was working at his used car dealership, 28th Street Auto Sales and Service, along the 2800 block of Governor Printz Boulevard when, around 10:30 a.m., police say Prince shot him twice.

He suffered gunshot wounds to his head and body, but was alert when officers arrived, Wilmington Police Chief Robert Tracy said. He remains hospitalized.

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Prince's SUV was still near the second shooting scene when Wilmington police arrived. Baul pointed out the SUV to police and it sped away before they could give chase, Tracy said.

The vehicle was recovered by police near Wilmington around 6:30 p.m. A short-time later, Prince was taken into custody.

The motive for both shootings remains unclear, though he knew all of the victims.

Barak Caba, owner of Advanced Granite Solutions which designs and installs stone countertops, told the Associated Press that Prince worked there as a machine operator for the past four months. He was scheduled to work Wednesday.

Prince's co-workers said the man kept to himself and barely talked. They remain baffled by the killings.

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Friends and relatives of Baul didn’t know why he was targeted by Prince. They said they actually don’t recognize Prince at all.

Baul was the type of person, they said, who loaned tow trucks to help out after a recent hurricane.

“He was the type of person if he could help you he would help you. He’s a good-hearted man,” John Broomer, of Wilmington, said. Broomer's granddaughter is engaged to Baul.

"My daughter called me she was hysterical crying saying Jason had got shot," said Ethel Jenkins, of Wilmington, whose daughter is engaged to Baul.

Real estate records link Prince to a home along the 500 block of Kiamensi Road in Wilmington.

Margaret Melton, a woman who resides at the home, told NBC10 that Prince does not officially live at the Wilmington address. "He lives in Maryland," Melton said. Court records show he most recently lived in Elkton, Maryland — along the Maryland-Delaware border.

She has known Prince since he was in the fourth grade, she said.

"He lived here on and off, when he had issues," Melton said. She did not go into details about what issues he had.

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Prince, according to court records in Washington state, lived in the Seattle area for a few years earlier this decade. The online records indicated he had court cases for unspecified proceedings between 2010 and 2014.

He apparently was back on the East Coast by 2015, as court records in Cecil County, Maryland, show he was in court on illegal firearm possession charges. Those charges apparently were dropped.

But court documents cited by The Baltimore Sun claim Prince has had run-ins with people he worked with in the past.

Prince was fired from a job in February after he allegedly punched a co-worker in the face and threatened other staffers, the Sun reported citing court documents. 

The assaulted co-worker later asked a Maryland judge for a restraining order against Prince. The request was denied because a burden of proof was not met, Maryland court records show.

A Delaware County, Pennsylvania, businessman was convicted Wednesday of applying for asylum in the United States under false pretenses while fleeing a civil war in the African country of Liberia.

Mohammed Jabateh, 50, who had been accused of taking part in atrocities during the 1990s in Liberia under the nickname "Jungle Jabbah," was found guilty on two counts of filing false immigration documents and two counts of perjury. Each count comes with up to five years in prison and deportation.

Jungle Jabbah was a feared commander in one of two warring military factions in the late 1980s and 1990s.

The now 50-year-old owner of a shipping company, who lives in Lansdowne, went on trial at the federal courthouse in Philadelphia on Oct. 2. Federal prosecutors did not directly charge him with war crimes.

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In his new life since coming to America in 1998, seeking asylum, some in greater Philadelphia's close-knit Liberian community told NBC10 that they know Jabateh as a hard-working businessman. They had no idea that he was a man that prosecutors linked directly to the bloody war that left 200,000 dead and many thousands more maimed, raped and displaced.

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The backdrop for such violence was a country divided by both military coups and ethnic hatred.

"Chaos is too kind a word," said Maghan Keita, professor of history at Villanova University.

He said very few Liberians escaped the war either as an aggressor or victim. Battlefields didn't exist and the brutality played on in villages and towns.

“The main target becomes the coercion of civilian populations, as opposed to engagement with other combatants who are as heavily armed as you are," Keita said.

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Jabateh has been jailed since his arrest in April 2016.

Among those American Liberians who have known Jabateh since his arrival in the U.S. in 1998 is a cousin and fellow businessman named Voffee Jabateh, who called Mohammed Jabateh "a pillar" of the local community.

John Prall, another Liberian who escaped to southeastern Pennsylvania, told NBC10 prior to the trial that he would be watching closely. He said he hopes the trial marks a start, not an end, to the pursuit of justice for victims of his native country's civil war.

Prall said he believes there are more than one former warlord living in his community.

"There are so many here," he said. "There are so many."

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Many Pennsylvania natives woke up to a notification from Facebook welcoming them to the City of Brotherly Love Wednesday morning.

Except ... they were across the state in parts of Western and Central Pennsylvania. And, according to some very snippy social media posts, definitely not in Philly.

According to the Pittsburgh Tribune, Facebook spokesperson Emilie Fetterley reports that the site “fixed the issue.”

Despite the fix, the glitch in Facebook’s location services caused a lot of confusion to those affected, and Pittsburgh natives had some interesting perspectives on the mistake.

A buck has been stuck on a New Jersey beach all day Wednesday, hours after it was spotted roaming the streets in nearby Seaside Heights Tuesday night.

The buck was seen sitting on Ortley Beach, one block north of Seaside, and was barely able to move Wednesday afternoon, a law enforcement source tells News 4. Waves were washing up close to the animal as it lay on the sand. 

The source claimed state wildlife officials won't respond and the local Toms River animal control says there's nothing they can do. 

But a wildlife spokesman tells News 4 that Toms River animal control did respond, and whenever they tried to approach to shoot the deer with a dart gun, it ran into the surf, sparking concerns it might drown.

They also called in a state police marine unit, similar to a Zodiac, and at several points it blasted its horn to try to get the buck to move -- but the animal would not leave the surf. 

The wildlife spokesman says sometimes the trauma of rescue efforts can kill an animal.  Officials are hoping the deer will wander off on its own when it gets dark. If they see signs of severe stress before then -- that it's just stuck and can't move -- then wildlife officials will move in.

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Suspect in Shootings in MD, Del. Captured: A sweeping multistate manhunt that kept the Mid-Atlantic region on high alert for more than 10 hours ended when law enforcement officers on foot chased down a man they say shot six people, killing three, in two separate shootings. Radee Labeeb Prince, 37, was captured on foot along Four Seasons Parkway near Clover Mill Drive in Newark, Delaware, about 7 p.m., police said. He shot five of his co-workers at a granite company about 25 miles northeast of Baltimore just before 9 a.m., police said. Three of them died. Harford County police identified them as Bayarsaikhan Tudev, 53; Jose Hidalgo Romero, 34, of Aberdeen, Maryland; and Enis Mrvoljak, 48, of Dundalk, Maryland. Prince then drove to Wilmington, where he shot an acquaintance in the head and the body at a used car lot, NBC Philadelphia reports that Wilmington police said. The second shooting occurred about 10:45 a.m. Wilmington Police Chief Robert Tracy said in a news conference Wednesday night police found Prince's SUV, a black 2000 GMC Acadia, about 5:35 p.m. near Glasgow High School in Newark. Police then received a tip Prince had been seen walking toward the school from the SUV. Officers convened on the area and took him into custody less than 2 hours later. During a brief foot chase, Prince threw down a gun, Tracy said.

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Judge Denies Sandusky New a Trial: Jerry Sandusky lost a bid Wednesday for a new trial and a second chance to convince a jury he is innocent of the child sexual abuse charges that landed him in state prison to serve a lengthy sentence. Judge John Foradora denied Sandusky's requests for a new trial or for dismissal of charges. The former Penn State assistant football coach's lawyers said they were disappointed and planned to appeal the decision to Superior Court. "The court's decision is not the end of Jerry's case, it is only the closing of a chapter which we need to go through in the course of our endeavor to obtain a new trial, a reversal of his conviction, and ultimately his release and vindication," said defense attorney Al Lindsay. Sandusky, 73, has consistently maintained he was wrongly convicted. He argued that he did not receive adequate representation at his 2012 trial and that prosecutors should have disclosed more details about changes to victims' stories.

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Everyone from Pittsburgh Was in Philly, According to Facebook: Many Pennsylvania natives woke up to a notification from Facebook welcoming them to the City of Brotherly Love Wednesday morning. Except ... they were across the state in parts of Western and Central Pennsylvania. And, according to some very snippy social media posts, definitely not in Philly. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune, Facebook spokesperson Emilie Fetterley reports that the site “fixed the issue.” Despite the fix, the glitch in Facebook’s location services caused a lot of confusion to those affected, and Pittsburgh natives had some interesting perspectives on the mistake.

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Poll: America's Fear of North Korea is On the Rise: A majority of Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, view North Korea as the most immediate threat to the United States, according to a new NBC NewsSurveyMonkey poll. The majority opinion represents a shift since July, when 41 percent of Americans said North Korea was the greatest immediate threat and 28 percent cited ISIS. But now, Americans across party lines agree that North Korea poses the most significant threat. A majority of Republicans (53 percent) and Republican-leaners, independents (53 percent) and Democrats and Democratic-leaners (55 percent) agree.

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A destructive fire left a firefighter and a woman hospitalized and SEPTA trolleys stopped Thursday morning.

The fire that broke out just before 5 a.m. destroyed the end row home along Kershaw Street at Lancaster Avenue in the Parkside section of Philadelphia.

A woman was taken to Lankenau Medical Center with undisclosed injuries while a firefighter went to Penn Presbyterian Hospital with a knee injury. The fire department said the firefighter is expected to be OK.

The blaze caused SEPTA to shuttle Route 10 trolley passengers between Lancaster and Girard avenues to 63rd Street and Malvern Avenue for a couple hours.

No word yet on what caused the fire.