A manhunt is underway after an 82-year-old woman was attacked during a home invasion. Now, neighbors are on high alert as police search for the attackers.
Elderly Woman Attacked in Home Invasion
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Sixth Grader Writes Book and Donates to Cancer Research
Sixth grader Irelynn Farrington became inspired when she and her mother shared stories with each other, so they worked hard on her book "The Perfect Unicorn." Portions of her sales will be donated to childhood cancer research.
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South Jersey Home Sinks Due to Flooding
Flooding on Tuesday caused a home in South Jersey to sink and neighbors are worried that the weekend rain will affect their homes as well.
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911 Operator Shortage in Montgomery County
Montgomery County is seeking 911 operators. The county is down 38 operators due to former dispatchers moving up in their careers.
Photo Credit: NBC10
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Hope and Coffee
A Lehigh Valley coffee shop hires people recovering from addiction to help them move forward in their lives.
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Career Wardrobe Named a Champion in Action
The non-profit Career Wardrobe, which helps people buy clothes for job interviews so that they can get back on their feet, received the Champion in Action award.
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Judge Deals Blow to Clergy's Case
A judge from Pittsburgh said Friday that one of Attorney General Josh Shapiro's briefs concerning the Grand Jury Report on Catholic Church sex abuse can be made public.
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Champions in Action
Career Wardrobe in Philadelphia was awarded a $35,000 check as part of NBC10 and Telemundo62's Champions in Action initiative to help the community.
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The Oval+ Celebrates Opening Weekend
The Benjamin Franklin Parkway features a whole lot more park space this summer as the city expands its seasonal offerings at Eakins Oval.
The project is called The Oval+, and through August 26 the outbound outer lanes of the Parkway will be closed between 20th Street and Art Museum Drive to create additional space for walkers and bikers and to make way for large-scale mural installations.
The idea for expanding the seasonal park beyond the perimeter of Eakins Oval came after the popularity of recent events and murals on the Oval. More than 40 percent of visitors requested more family-friendly activities, officials from the Fairmount Park Conservancy and the Philadelphia Parks and Recreation department said.
“This year, we’re making The Oval more family-friendly than ever before,” Mayor Jim Kenney said.
The Oval+ kicked off summer fun July 20th on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway with a weekend of events.
Food & Flicks Friday
From 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., The Oval+ has a variety of food trucks for people to enjoy, along with movies that begin at 9 p.m.
7/20 – The Greatest Showman
7/27 – Battle of the Sexes
8/3 – Karate Kid
8/10 – Wayne’s World
8/17 – Creed
Game Day Saturdays
Every Saturday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. The Oval+ offers Quizzo in the beer garden with other games and prizes!
Family Fun Sunday
Sundays are packed with games, face paintings, games and dance parties for the whole family from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Artistic elements have been included in The Oval+'s park space to combine Philly life and family fun. Murals feature scenes including kayaks on the Schuylkill and the towers of Center City representing the transition from city to park. Mural Arts Philadelphia and design and illustration studio The Heads of State worked together to design and install the murals.
“We are so excited to expand The Oval+ this year, with an additional 22,000 square feet of artwork,” Jane Golden, executive director of Mural Arts Philadelphia, said. “We are honored to be a partner once again in this massive and inspiring undertaking.”
In addition to the mural installation, the expanded space features public furniture, a 800 square foot sandbox and Mr. Mister, a misting pavilion intended to help visitors cool off on hot summer days.
The park will remain active until August 19. During these four weeks, events will be held from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays.
The Eakins Tavern beer garden will return along with a rotating line up of food trucks.
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New Kensington Mural Protests Separation of Families
A new mural in Kensington offers a forceful artistic response to the separation of families at the southern U.S. border.
The mural features a Hispanic family, with a baby in a sling, together despite the threats that loom just over their shoulders: drug cartels, dangerous immigration journeys and human trafficking.
"Families belong together, not in cages," the mural reads.
The mural was designed by Chilean artist Ian Pierce and Mural Arts Philadelphia. Mural Arts wanted to send a message about the plight of separated families, said Cathy Harris, director of community murals.
And it is a good way to represent Philadelphia, which is a sanctuary city, Harris said.
The mural is located at 2536 N Front Street, between Fishtown and Kensington, a mostly Hispanic neighborhood. “We chose this specific area because of the Hispanic population, and even the owner of the wall agreed about the topic,” Harris said.
The mural was completed Monday.
Pierce, who is known as Artes Ekeko, traveled between Chile and Philadelphia to create the design, which took about a month.
Pierce also worked with a local artist César Viveros, who brought a bright texture to the piece.
“It is very rare that it took just a month, because usually a huge project takes more time," said Harris.
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Homeowners Beware: Mortgage Scam Artists Have New Trick
Looking for re-finance your home? Switching mortgage companies, or simply own a home already and paying a mortgage? A new type of scam is affecting some people with mortgages or who are seeking new mortgages. Here is what to look out for.
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String of Sex Assaults Reported in West Philadelphia
Women are on alert as news of a string of sex assaults reported in West Philadelphia is released by police.
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Fighting West Nile By Spraying Parks
Philadelphia department of health crews spray for mosquitos to combat the spread of West Nile virus.
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40 Hospitalized in Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Raw Turkey
Ninety people in 26 states have been infected with salmonella in the midst of an outbreak that has been connected to raw turkey products, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
There haven’t been any reported deaths, but 40 people have been hospitalized.
Salmonella cases have been reported in Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin, the CDC said in a news release.
While the outbreak hasn’t been linked to a single supplier, the salmonella strain has been found in samples of raw turkey products including pet food and live turkeys, the CDC said.
The agency hasn’t instructed retailers to stop selling raw turkey products and hasn’t told consumers to stop eating properly cooked turkey products.
To avoid being infected with salmonella, the CDC recommends frequently washing your hands, cooking raw turkey thoroughly and avoiding raw diets for pets.
“Always handle raw turkey carefully and cook it thoroughly to prevent food poisoning,” the CDC said in the release. “This outbreak is a reminder that raw turkey products can have germs that spread around food preparation areas and can make you sick.”
Photo Credit: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images, File
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7th Annual Ladybug Music Festival Hits Wilmington
A one-of-a-kind free music festival hitting the streets of Wilmington, Delaware, this weekend.
The 7th annual Ladybug Festival Friday and Saturday at the historic Queen Theater is the largest music festival in the country featuring only women musicians, according to the organizers.
Along with a full lineup of female artists, the best female sound engineers and production staff help bring together the two-day block party.
"A number of studies show that female-fronted acts account for a little more than 10 percent of festival lineups across the country," Gayle Dillman, founder of Gable Music Ventures, said. "We are proud to present a lineup that celebrates and welcomes dynamic women-identified musicians."
In partnership with Chase Bank, Gable Music Ventures created the festival seven years ago as a response the lack of representation of female artists on festival stages across the country.
The Ladybug Festival has grown from an audience of 300 to 10,000 in the first six years. Emerging musicians, such as Larkin Poe and Grammy-nominated Mary Lambert, have appeared on the stage in previous years.
"We are proud to have an event like this in Wilmington each summer," Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki said, "and I've enjoyed watching how much it has grown over the years."
The 2018 festival will feature more than 75 female acts across the two days.
Photo Credit: Gable Music Ventures LLC
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Heavy Rain Showers Loom Over Weekend
Heavy rain is heading our way on this Saturday. NBC10's First Alert Weather meteorologist Krystal Klei lets us know where these heavy rain showers are located and how much it will impact your neighborhood.
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Mega Million Lottery Nears Half a Billion Dollars
The prize has grown to more than $490 million as a winner is yet to come forward.
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Police Search for 3 Philadelphia Children
Police are searching for three Philadelphia children.
Na-khai Williams, 1, Khairah Williams, 3, and Crystal Wyatt-Tucker, 8, were last seen Friday at 5 p.m. in the area of the 1400 block of North Newkirk Street with their mother Dayrelle Wyatt Williams. Police say the kids’ father has legal custody however.
If you have any information on their whereabouts, please call the East Detective Division at 215-686-3243 or call 911.
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Photo Credit: Philadelphia Police
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Med School Uses Monsters and Comics to Teach Empathy
Jefferson University medical students are hanging up their stethoscopes and picking up their sketchbooks this summer.
The school’s new graphic medicine course has students creating comic strips to improve their attention to detail and ability to communicate with patients.
“The crux of the course is teaching observation and hoping that through that empathy grows,” Christian Patchell, the course’s instructor, said. “I’ve noticed that when someone’s hands are active and creating, they’re more likely to have a personal conversation with you.”
Patchell saw the different ways art can help bring out compassion in students throughout the course. In one lesson, he allowed students to ask him about his own experiences with tongue cancer, which he documented using werewolves and other monsters to represent his treatments in the graphic novel “I Put the Can in Cancer.”
“At first they asked the questions they were taught to ask,” Patchell said. “They asked about my profile, if I was a smoker.”
The lesson continued and, as the students worked on their sketches, the questions they asked began to change.
“They asked things like, ‘what could have made your experience better?’ No one had asked me that before,” Patchell said.
Throughout the course students worked on different assignments, including exercises in autobiographical and patient-perspective cartooning. The autobiographical sketches helped Patchell learn more about his students.
“I went in not knowing what inspires a doctor or a nurse to study medicine and they all had these really great stories,” he said.
While many of the student’s assignments are focused on the students and their future patients, others allow them to have a bit more fun. For one assignment, students based their work off of designs by the cartoonist Michael Paulus who draws popular cartoon characters as skeletons.
Patchell also brought Star Wars figurines to class for students to use as cartoon models of the human form.
“You have not lived until you’ve had medical students playing with your Star Wars toys,” he said.
The course, which will be offered again in the fall, is part of a 2017 redesign of Jefferson’s medical curriculum. The new curriculum, known as JeffMD, integrates required courses in the arts and humanities to help doctors develop the empathy they need to better understand what their patients are experiencing. JeffMD is the first major redesign of Jefferson’s medical program in nearly 100 years.
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Superhero Dog Helps Hearing-Impaired Kids
This caped crusader happens to be a canine with a very special message for deaf kids: It's ok to be different.
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