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Philly's BeLOVEd Sculpture to Return in 2018

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Love Park will be without its beLOVEd sculpture for a few more months, according to city officials.

The Philadelphia Parks & Recreation and the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy announced that the famous art piece will return to JFK Plaza after completion of the park’s construction project next year.

“We realize that the return of the LOVE sculpture to the park is highly-anticipated and we are working to bring it back as soon as possible,” said Parks & Recreation Commissioner Kathryn Ott Lovell in a statement.

With the holidays around the corner, Lovell added that the city’s priority is preparing for the Christmas Village and the visitors for the winter season. JFK Plaza will have a soft opening for the Christmas Village before it's grand re-opening in the Spring.

When the LOVE sculpture returns, it will look different than you remember.

Robert Indiana originally painted it red, green and purple, not the red, green and blue it has been since it was installed in 1956. Workers are restoring the piece to its original colors with assistance from Indiana’s representatives.

Margot Berg is the Public Art Director for the City’s Office of Arts and Culture. She said Indiana painted only Philadelphia’s version purple.

“Singular and unique to Philadelphia, we have even more reasons to love our LOVE and we are thrilled to restore it to the artist’s original intent. The additional time will allow the sculpture’s paint to cure properly so that it can withstand the elements for many years,” Berg said.

Expect a celebration of the LOVE scuplture's return followed by a grand re-opening celebration for the park in Spring 2018.



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Debate Erupts Over Temple Stadium Proposal

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Plans are calling for a new stadium for Temple University, but what do local residents think of the idea, and how are students reacting? NBC10's Deanna Durante has both sides of the debate.

Fire Extinguisher Recall Linked to Local Death

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Millions of fire extinguishers have been recalled over reports they can fail. As NBC10s Drew Smith reports, the recall has a link to a death in our area. Here's a link to check your fire extinguishers.

iPhone Fans Camp Out for $1,000 Phone

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People lined up in Center City Philadelphia overnight to be the among the first to get their hands on the new iPhone X.



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Couple Dies in SUV Near Home in Apparent Murder-Suicide

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A couple, whose family says had a history of domestic violence, wound up dead in an SUV parked near their home — the gun in the man’s hand — in an apparent case of murder-suicide.

Crews found the 37-year-old woman suffering a gunshot wound in the front driver’s seat and the 49-year-old man suffering a gunshot in the front passenger seat of the Honda CRV parked along Amber Street near Venango Street in the Kensington neighborhood around 10:15 p.m. Thursday, Philadelphia police said. Medics pronounced both dead.

The deaths appeared to be a murder-suicide as investigators found a gun in the man’s hand, Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.

Family members on the scene said the man and the woman, who had violent encounters in the past, were arguing earlier in the day.

The investigation into the deaths continued Friday morning, police said.

The National Domestic Violence Hotline offers resources for victims of abuse. The phone number is 1-800-799-7233. Chat services are available at thehotline.org.



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People, Pets Escape Early Morning Fire

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A fire broke out in a row home on Oxford Street, near Temple University in North Philadelphia before daybreak Friday. Crews, including Philadelphia police officers, helped as at least six people and at least three cats made it out of the burning apartments. Everyone is expected to be OK. NBC10 reporter Randy Gyllenhaal has more details.



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Massive Dog Bites Off Part of Woman's Ear in NJ Mauling

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A dog’s fate is in the hands of a New Jersey judge after a woman said the 95-pound pet bit off part of her ear, broke her finger and cracked her hip when she knocked on her neighbor’s door.

Police said the massive Argentinian Mastiff that mauled Elizabeth Romanaux attacked someone last year. Romanaux said the animal also killed her chickens in a previous attack and that she feels lucky to be alive after the vicious mauling that left her blacked out and in the hospital.

"I'll be honest with you, I don’t remember anything," she said. "From the moment I saw that dog coming at me to the moment it was ripping my scalp. I don’t remember anything. And that’s probably a good thing."

Romanaux said she went over to the home to warn the neighbor about rat poison that had been put down in the area. But when the neighbor opened the door a crack, the dog “just burst right through” the door.

By the time the attack ended, Romanaux had extensive bite marks to her head, and the dog had gnawed off part of her ear. Several fingers are broken, and she said her hip was cracked.

The dog’s owner was ticketed after the attack, and the animal was put in quarantine until a judge can rule whether it needs to be euthanized. But Romanaux said she does not want the dog anywhere near her home.

"I have a 1-year-old grandbaby who is moving in along with my son and daughter-in-law in a couple of weeks," she said. "And I am not having dogs like this living next door to me. It’s out of the question"

Controversial Frank Rizzo Statue Will Be Moved, City Says

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After months of controversy and several protests, the city announced that the Frank Rizzo statue will be moved from its current location across from Philadelphia’s City Hall.

City officials made the unexpected announcement Friday that the decision was reached after thousands of individual recommendations from the public and careful consideration.

There was no exact date for the 10-foot monument's removal from its perch on Thomas Paine Plaza in front of the Municipal Services Building. The full-body, hand-waving Rizzo looks south, several yards from the busy intersection of JFK Boulevard and North 15th Street.

City Managing Director Michael DiBerardinis said in a statement that "potential new locations" have been identified, but he did not name them.

“Earlier this year we initiated a call for ideas on the future of the Rizzo statue,” DiBerardinis said. “We carefully reviewed and considered everyone’s viewpoints and we have come to the decision that the Rizzo statue will be moved to a different location. This decision comes at a time when we have begun the preliminary stages of planning to re-envision Paine Plaza as a new type of inviting and engaging public space.”

Rizzo served as mayor from 1972 to 1980. His controversial legacy stretches further back to his rise through the ranks of the police department to eventually become commissioner.

He became the ire of local activists and protesters amid the national debate about statues honoring leaders of the South during the Civil War, particularly monuments displayed prominently on public property in southern cities.

Councilwoman Helen Gym first stirred the anti-Rizzo statue fervor when she tweeted in August that it should be removed.

On Friday, she pledged to help in the ongoing debate that to decide where the new location should be.

Over the summer, the statue was vandalized at least twice. The statue was egged and a man was arrested for spray-painting "black power" on it.

After asking the public to weigh in on if the statue should be moved, almost 4,000 proposals were received.

"The response was very helpful for us to identify a host of potential new locations," the city's chief cultural officer, Kelly Lee, said. "We plan to do our due diligence on these locations before announcing the new site, but the input helped shaped some of the options we’ll review."

The city estimates it will take six months to prepare a completed proposal to the Art Commission.



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Passerby Finds Woman's Body in Philly Creek

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A passerby found a woman’s body in a Philadelphia creek Friday morning.

The grisly discovery was made around 11 a.m. in Cobbs Creek near Cobbs Creek Parkway and Spruce Street, Philadelphia police sad.

Officers arrived to find the woman – believed to be in her late 30s or early 40s – dead. Police could be seen on the scene investigating.

No word yet how the woman died. Police didn’t reveal if foul play is suspected.



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6 Things to Know About Daylight Saving Time

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What's better than sleep? An extra hour of it.

It’s that time of the year clocks "fall back" an hour, marking the end of daylight saving time. The change takes place at 2 a.m on Sunday, Nov. 5.

When you go to bed on Saturday night, don’t forget to turn your clock back an hour. But don't worry about electronic devices like cellphones. By default, they are set to automatically update the time as it changes.

In observance of the biannual switch in time, here are some things you may not have known about this event.

It Has an Impact on Your Health
Switching into and out of daylight saving can disturb people’s sleeping routines, making them more restless at night, according to U.S. News and World Report. However, morning people tend to be less bothered by the changes. Studies have shown that during the first week of daylight saving time there is a spike in the number of reported heart attacks. Some experts suggest, according to the report, that the loss of an hour’s rest may make people more vulnerable to an attack. Nonetheless, when people get an extra hour in the fall, the incidents of heart attacks are less than usual.

When Was DST Implemented
Before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Uniform Time Act in 1966, which established a uniform daylight saving time, local governments could start and end daylight saving time as they desired. For five weeks a year Boston, New York and Philadelphia were not on the same time as Washington, D.C., Cleveland or Baltimore. Different daylight saving times also caused confusion for travelers going from the Midwest to Northeast.

In 2005, President George W. Bush extended the daylight saving time for an extra four weeks through an energy bill. Since 2007, daylight saving time has begun on the second Sunday of March, ending on the first Sunday of November.

Not All States Observe DST
Arizona and Hawaii are the only two states that do not observe daylight saving time. Indiana did not observe the practice until 2005. The American territories of American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands also do not participate.

Some states have tried to get rid of daylight saving time but haven't been successful. In the last year alone, 14 state legislatures have debated bills aimed at revising how we keep time. In March, the Utah state legislature rejected a bill that would have ended daylight saving time.

Founding Father Did Not Come Up with DST
According to the History Channel, Benjamin Franklin did not come up with the idea of daylight saving time; he only suggested a change in sleep schedules.

Englishman William Willett is the one who suggested in 1905 that the United Kingdom move its clocks forward by 80 minutes between April and October, so people could enjoy the sunlight. He published "The Waste of Daylight" and spent much of his fortune and time promoting the idea.

Don't Trust Automatic Time Changes
It's good to confirm if your phone or other electronic devices have changed to the correct time. In 2013, iPhone customers experienced a daylight saving time bug. Some users saw two different times displayed on their calendar app, which was apparently caused by a change that moved daylight saving time back a week in 2007. In 2010 iPhones had another problem in which the phones did not correctly change alarm schedules when daylight saving time ended, causing some European iPhone users to wake up late for work, while Australians were woken up early.

DST is Singular Not Plural
By the way, it's "daylight saving time," not "daylight savings time."



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People, Pets Escape Flames

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Rescue crews raced into a burning apartment row home on Oxford Street in North Philadelphia overnight to save 6 lives overnight. NBC10's Randy Gyllenhaal is told that people and pets are expected to be OK.

Local Athletes Aim for Gold in Winter Olympics

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Jamie Gruebel Poser loves coming home to Bucks County to show off her bronze medal from Sochi, but how is the local athlete preparing for the Winter Olympics? NBC10's Randy Gyllenhaal caught up with the bobsledder. and some other local athletes, to see how they are training with less than 100 days until the games.

Before Holiday Fever Hits, Have Some Final Fall Fun

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Here's a list of November fall fun to enjoy before the winter weather and holiday spirit takes full reign.

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Car Flips Over After Police Pursuit

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A police pursuit in Radnor ended with a vehicle being flipped over. NBC10's Dray Clark reports.

NBC10 First Alert Weather: Cold Temperatures Moving In

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Not only will cold temperatures be moving into our region this weekend, but we also have a rain threat for Sunday. How much rain could we get, and how cold will it get? NBC10 First Alert Weather meteorologist Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz has your forecast.


Gas Prices Are Spiking. Here's Why.

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As the leaves are changing colors, you'll also notice gas prices changing too. Drivers are paying more per gallon, but what is causing the increase? NBC10's Steven Fisher explains.

Roller Derby Slams Into Philadelphia

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If you've never seen women's roller derby, this weekend is your chance. Teams will be competing in North Philadelphia and it's something you don't want to miss. NBC10's Tim Furlong explains.

Matthews: Biden’s Definitely Running for President

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Joe Biden will be running for President of the United States in 2020 — no ifs, ands or buts, at least according to Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s "Hardball."

"I’ve talked to his family. He’s running. OK? Fact," Matthews said Friday following an appearance at NBC10 promoting his new book, "Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit."

Biden, President Obama's vice president and a popular seven-time senator from Delaware, is a "regular guy," Matthews says, who would rather summer at casual Rehoboth Beach than tony Martha’s Vineyard.

It’s Biden’s everyday sensibility that could help him attract working-class whites, a group Matthews believes Democrats need to woo once again.

"The Democrats gotta get back to being the party of regular people: firefighters, waitresses, cops. Regular people," Matthews said. "I don’t like talking ethnically, but that’s a fact. They’ve lost the working class whites and they’ve got to get them back."

Biden has been opaque about his intentions for the 2020 election cycle. He told Vanity Fair last month that he hadn’t made up his mind.

"I haven’t decided to run. But I’ve decided I’m not going to decide not to run. We’ll see what happens," he said.

A spokesman for Biden told NBC10 Friday afternoon that they had no official comment on Matthews' comments and pointed to Biden's Vanity Fair interview.

Biden has run for president twice, in 1988 and 2008 — the latter ending with him joining Obama’s ticket. He also considered running in the 2016 election. But after delaying a decision for months, he decided to sit out.

He said his family asked him not to run after the May 2015 death of his son, Beau Biden, the former Attorney General of Delaware. It's a decision Biden told NBC Connecticut in January that he regrets "every day" but that was right for his family.

Since leaving the White House, Biden has launched academic centers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Delaware.

Matthews says if the 74-year-old can show he has a youthful mindset and survive inevitable gaffes from slips of his tongue, he could make it to the general election.

"If Joe has the spirit of a young guy, I think he can put together a ticket, perhaps with Kamala Harris from California, and that ticket could be pretty powerful," Matthews said.



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Biplane Crashes Nose Down Near Bucks Co. Airstrip

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A biplane crashed nose down near an upper Bucks County airstrip Friday afternoon.

The plane wound up next to a wooded area near Van Sant Airport off Cafferty Road in Erwinna, Pennsylvania around 2:30 p.m.

No word yet on injuries.

The small airstrip features grass runways.



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South Jersey Mom Delivers Baby in Driveway

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A South Jersey family welcomed their new baby on Sunday night in their driveway. Now, that family is thanking first responders for helping her and her new baby through the experience. NBC10's Cydney Long has that family's story.

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