A boy scout troop is giving back after getting help. The troop's equipment room in New Castle County, Delaware, was vandalized a month ago. The community stepped up and gave the troop so much help that they now have too many items! That's why they're paying it forward.

After his son was diagnosed with Celiac Disease, a New Jersey father noticed it was difficult to find restaurants with gluten-free options. So he invented an app to do just that.

As Hurricane Michael continues to strengthen, local first responders are preparing to help potential victims in Florida if called upon.

Most parents are concerned with keeping their children healthy. But what if you're giving them the right food and they still get sick? Doctors say it could be the result of Celiac Disease, which is becoming more common in children. Watch how a local father created an app to help those with Celiac Disease here.

An off-duty Philadelphia Police officer who struck and killed a man while speeding near a high school pleaded guilty to a felony vehicular homicide charge and a misdemeanor count of involuntary manslaughter.

Adam Soto, 25, will be sentenced on Jan. 11.

Police say Soto and another officer, Tony Forest, 25, were both driving on the 1600 block of Cottman Avenue back on Jan. 31, 2017, around 11:30 a.m. Both officers were off-duty at the time.

Officials say Soto was driving 89 mph when he struck 50-year-old Daniel Dimitri who was running across the street. Dimitri was taken to the hospital where he died from his injuries a short time later.

After a lengthy investigation, Soto was arrested in April 2017 and charged with homicide by vehicle and involuntary manslaughter. Forest, 25, was not charged criminally but was charged with departmental violations after investigators determined he was driving recklessly as well.

Soto was a 3-year veteran of the department assigned to the 24th District. Forest was a 3-year veteran assigned to the 14th District.

Soto and Forest were both fired after the incident.

Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers' new mascot, is a lot of things to a lot of people.

For one huge fan of the orange-and-black, the hockey monster offered a stroke of inspiration. Valerie Sherk, of Horsham, had been planning her son's Halloween party and had costumes on the brain.

What if, Sherk wondered, she made a Gritty baby costume?

She messaged her best friend Elizabeth Musselman with the idea. Elizabeth has a four-month-old son, Connor; what if Sherk made Connor a costume inspired by Philly's newest monster?

Sherk grabbed a glue gun and a baby hoodie and got to work.

“A lot of orange yarn, a couple hot glue burns and 3 hours later,” she says, the costume was finished -- complete with googly eyes, an abundance of fur, and tiny black ice skates.

There are pictures of Connor, looking appropriately grit-filled (and uncomfortably warm… Saturday was a hot day, so he wasn’t thrilled about the costume), on Sherk’s Twitter. “We have to get him to a Flyers game,” she adds, so he can meet Gritty in person.

The Flyers mascot has inspired a lot of creations in the past few weeks, including protest banners, tattoos, and even a new local beer. But this is the first time he’s managed to swing an entire costume.

Sherk says she’s been crafting and making stuff her whole life, but this is her favorite project so far.

“We love Gritty,” she says. “We think he’s the best mascot of all time.”

A young girl is recovering after she accidentally shot herself in the foot, police said.

The 6-year-old girl was playing in the basement of a home on the 4800 block of North 8th Street in the Olney section of Philadelphia at 4:41 p.m. The girl found the weapon in a school bag and accidentally shot herself in the left foot.

The girl’s mother took her to the Einstein Medical Center where she is in stable condition.

The weapon was recovered. Police have not yet revealed whether or not any charges will be filed.

Police are searching for three men accused of attacking and stabbing a Villanova University student outside a bar in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, over the weekend.

The student told police he and a woman had left Kelly’s Taproom shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday and were walking down Prospect Avenue towards County Line Road. As they were walking, three unidentified men began to yell at them, police said.

The student told police the men approached from the back and he told the woman to run. The three men then began arguing with the student on the 900 block of County Line Road. The argument then turned physical and at one point, at least one of the suspects stabbed the victim in the chest, police said.

The three suspects then fled toward the 7-11 store at the intersection of County Line Road and Glenbrook Avenue, according to investigators. 

The victim told police he didn’t know he was stabbed at first. Two cars drove by the student. In one car, a woman asked the student if he was okay. The victim told the woman he was and walked home. He then realized he had been stabbed and walked to the hospital where he is currently in stable condition, police said.

Police released surveillance video of the three suspects. The first suspect is described as a thin, light-skinned and clean-shaven black male in his early 20s with three-inch dreadlocks and standing 6-foot-2. He was last seen wearing a white shirt, black jeans, white shoes and a navy blue “Balenciaga” jacket, police said.

The second suspect is described as a dark-skinned black male in his mid-20s with a medium build and a clean goatee standing 5-foot-8. He was last seen wearing a dark shirt and dark pants.

The third suspect is described as a clean shaven black male in his early 20s standing 5-foot-7. He was last seen wearing glasses and a hooded sweatshirt.

Radnor Township Police are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. If you have any information on the incident, please call 610-688-0500 or 911 immediately.

A former Northampton Township, Pennsylvania, supervisor and his girlfriend are accused of getting a woman drunk and then using spy glasses and a webcam to take photographs of her while she was unconscious.

Lawrence Jay Weinstein, 44, and Kelly Drucker, both of Northampton Township, are charged with false imprisonment, invasion of privacy, recklessly endangering another person, criminal conspiracy and violations of the Pennsylvania Wiretap Act.

Investigators say Weinstein and Drucker plotted last fall to spike a woman's drink with high-proof alcohol so that she'd be unable to drive and be forced to go to Drucker’s house where a webcam was placed in the bathroom.

“Don’t let her go to the bathroom until she gets back to your place,” Weinstein allegedly texted Drucker.

The couple first planned for what they referred to as their “mission” in late October 2017, investigators said. Drucker then had dinner with the woman at a restaurant on the night of Nov. 10, 2017, according to the criminal complaint.

During the dinner, Weinstein allegedly texted Drucker, instructing her on how to convince the victim to come back to her home. 

“Keep sober so you can make it happen and aren’t too drunk to win,” Weinstein allegedly texted Drucker.

After the victim arrived at Drucker’s house, Weinstein sent her more text messages advising her on how to keep the victim there, police said. Weinstein also allegedly told Drucker to ask the victim sexually-charged questions and give her more alcohol.

At some point, the woman became sick and passed out in Drucker’s bathroom, police said. Weinstein then allegedly sent Drucker several messages telling her to use spy glasses to take photos of the unconscious victim.

“Don’t worry about her. Get glasses on now,” Weinstein allegedly texted the woman. “Get her naked and get [sic] door open.”

A few days later, Weinstein and Drucker had a text message conversation discussing more plans for their “mission,” indicating that they wanted to find more victims, according to investigators.

In August, a man discovered illicit messages on a phone that once belonged to Drucker, leading to an investigation, officials said. Weinstein and Drucker both surrendered to Bucks County detectives Tuesday afternoon.

The victim told police she remembered saying her wine “didn’t taste right” on the night of Nov. 10, 2017 and was sick the following morning. She said she didn’t remember anything that happened in between, according to investigators.

Officials said they recovered photos of the victim while she was in Drucker’s bathroom.

While being questioned, Weinstein told police he was “concerned” for the victim and wasn’t sure if he should call an ambulance, according to an affidavit of probable cause.

Investigators also say they found photos on an iPad of Weinstein sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in late 2012. That woman told police she wasn’t aware of the incident and didn’t consent to Weinstein touching her or taking the photos. Weinstein was charged with indecent assault in connection to that incident.

Bail is set for both Weinstein and Drucker at $300,000 unsecured. They are both scheduled for preliminary hearings on Oct. 18.

A police officer was honored for saving a newborn baby's life in Montgomery County. Bridgeport Officer Shannon Sell helped deliver a baby girl inside a home in July when ambulances were tied up on other calls. After realizing the newborn was in respiratory distress, Officer Sell then performed CPR until medics arrived.

The hit NBC show "This is Us" is shining a light on obesity, fertility and polycystic ovarian syndrome. We speak to a local fertility specialist who helped the show's writer explore the topic.  We also reveal how the dream of motherhood isn't as far out of reach as some might fear.

A Pennsylvania task force that returned home from the Carolinas less than two weeks ago left again Tuesday night to help with potential victims of Hurricane Michael.

The March of Dimes wants to make people aware that 15 million women lack proper care while they're pregnant. The March of Dimes will display 700 blankets to represent the 700 moms that have lost their life due to pregnancy complications each year.

In efforts to reduce pollution and encourage exercise, thousands of schools across the country are participating in National Walk to School Day. Parents are asked to ditch the car this morning and walk your kids to school instead. Bicycles are also encouraged.

Delaware's Board of Pardons will hear a commutation request from a man serving 35 years in prison for a murder committed when he was 17 years old.

After reviewing the request from Byron Dickerson behind closed doors last month, the board has agreed to hear from Dickerson in person on Oct. 23.

Dickerson was initially sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 1990 contract killing of Kevin Brown, who was his girlfriend's brother.

Dickerson, also known as Bar Salaam Saadiq, was resentenced in 2014 after the U.S. Supreme Court declared mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile killers to be unconstitutional.

Prosecutors say Dickerson offered one of his drug customer's money and cocaine to kill Brown.

A New Jersey high school teacher allegedly sent nude photos to a student and had “sexually explicit conversations” with him via email and social media, prosecutors said.

Montgomery High School contacted police on Oct. 4 to report that teacher Michelina Aichele, 29, of Hillsborough Township, had been having sexually explicit conversations with a 17-year-old male student, the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office said Tuesday.

The student told police Aichele had sent him nude photos over the course of several months, prosecutors said.

He also shared “sexually explicit conversations” he’d had with Aichele through social media sites and over email, according to prosecutors.

Aichele was arrested and charged with second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, prosecutors said.

Her attorney information wasn’t immediately available Tuesday.

Pennsylvania Task Force 1 and New Jersey Task Force 1 are preparing to head to the Florida Panhandle to assist with Hurricane Michael relief.

More than two hours of police body camera footage has been released that shows the moments officers pointed their weapons at two unarmed Rowan University students and handcuffed them after responding to a report of a gunman. The footage also includes an interview with the person who called in the initial report that sparked the encounter, which has roiled the campus community.

"You all are about to find out that you stopped me for no reason," Altif Hassan, a senior from Trenton, New Jersey, says in the video as he sits cuffed in the back of a police vehicle.

Glassboro police released the video, parts of it blurred, in four parts, captured on 13 separate cameras, on the department's Facebook page late Tuesday night.

The videos show the arrest of Hassan and another student on the afternoon of Oct. 1.

Glassboro officers were investigating a shoplifting incident at a store in the Collegetown Shopping Center on North Delsea Drive that afternoon. During the investigation, a man approached the officers and claimed he had spotted a black male with "puffy hair" pointing a black handgun at a vehicle, police said. He told the officers the man then went into the driver's seat of a black Dodge Charger. 

"Officer, you see that Charger right there? He just came out of the store with a gun in his hand," the man tells the officers in earlier body cam footage released by police.

Late Tuesday, police release blurred video of the same man explaining why he made the complaint.

"I'm not prejudice but when it fits, it fits," says the unidentified man, whose face is blurred in the newly released footage. "Black guy, racing cars sitting in front, coming out of a store with a gun laughing his head off."

"I thought he was gonna shoot at me," he said.

Police say they stopped the Dodge Charger in the area of North Campus Drive in the parking lot of Mimosa Hall at Rowan University around 5 p.m.

Hassan and Giovanna Roberson, a freshman from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, were inside the vehicle at the time.

“Being that it was believed that one of the occupants of the vehicle had a gun, police followed procedures and drew their weapons until all the occupants exited the vehicle and were searched,” a spokesperson for Rowan University wrote to students following the incident.

Previously released cellphone video of the incident shows at least three officers pointing their weapons at Hassan and Roberson.

The newly released footage shows the officers pointing their guns at the students and putting cuffs on each of them.

"I don't even want to speak, bro," Hassan says in the video. "You just had a gun out on me... you could have just took my life."

When asked to consent to a vehicle search, Hassan emphatically said "hell (expletive) yeah." He then mentioned that police won't find any weapon.

"You all are supposed to pulling over a Charger with a gun in it, you all just pulled over a Charger without a gun in it," an upset Hassan said while in police custody. "I don't understand, how are you doing your job?"

"I thought it was over," Hassan told NBC10 last week. "And they were about to shoot me in front of everybody on camera. Everybody was just gonna be replaying my death over and over again."

In the video, Hassan first steps out of the vehicle, raises his hands and walks backwards toward the police cruiser as the officers point their weapons at him. The officers then place him in handcuffs.

The officers then order Roberson to do the same and then place her in handcuffs as well. Roberson is also seen on the video in cuffs in the back of the police vehicle before police release her.

"It was really traumatizing and frightening," Roberson said last week. "The whole time I was scared for Tif. I was watching him back up and scared for myself as well."

The officers searched both students as well as their vehicle but did not find a weapon. Police say they then informed the students why the action was taken and they were let go.

"Officers have an obligation to investigate when this type of information is provided regarding a serious threat of an alleged armed subject in our community for the safety of all involved including the people that are subject of the investigation," Glassboro Police Chief Franklin S. Brown, Jr. wrote in a statement."

Hassan later posted the video of the incident on his Facebook page.

“I can’t keep quiet like my voice doesn’t matter,” Hassan wrote. “I’m pressing hard. If you believe in the cause, share it for the culture. Everyone gotta know this kind of harassment needs to stop.”

Hassan’s video went viral and sparked controversy online as critics questioned why police held the students at gunpoint. Hassan told NBC10 he wants police to change their procedure in light of the incident.

"We just want to be treated equally," Hassan said. "Just equal. Nothing more. Nothing less."

"The videos are being offered in the spirit of complete transparency and to demonstrate the Police Department’s compliance with appropriate protocols and training for dealing with this type of incident," Glassboro police said on its Facebook post.

Rowan University held a student forum last week to discuss the incident. Glassboro police are in the process of forming a committee with Rowan officials to bridge the divide between police and students, the department said.

For some of our area's voters without cars, the most important question after they've decided whom they're voting for is: How am I getting to my polling place?

In more urban areas, and poorer neighborhoods, and suburban towns with older populations, this question looms large.

The two-largest ride-hailing companies, Lyft and Uber, are partnering with non-profit organizations to offer free and discounted rides for voters.

Lyft, working with When We All Vote and National Registration Day, is offering 50% off rides to polling stations across the U.S., and free rides within under-served communities through nonpartisan partners like VoteLatino and the National Federation of the Blind.

Uber is partnering with Democracy Works and #VoteTogether to provide free rides to voters in communities that they determine have transportation challenges.

Both ride-sharing services reminded their drivers and passengers about voter registration resources and deadlines, and plan to roll out app updates helping prospective voters find their polling stations on Election Day.

Local organizations are hoping to increase Philadelphians’ participation in midterm elections as well, with initiatives like Indego’s "Pedal to the Polls."

“We are proud to ensure that everyone has an affordable way to get to, or near, their polling place,” the bike share program said on its Facebook page.

On Nov. 5-6, bike-riding voters can redeem a free day pass, which is typically $10, by using the promo code RIDE2VOTE.

Not everyone thinks reducing travel costs will mobilize voting citizens.

An online petition asking SEPTA to offer free rides on Election Day, launched by the urbanist group 5th Square, gathered over 500 signatures in its first few days but was rejected by the transport authority.

The chair of the Philadelphia City Commissioners told WHYY that she appreciates the sentiment, but "doesn’t really think SEPTA is the answer."

"Although it sounds like a good idea, I don’t think it is," SEPTA assistant manager Fran Kelly also told WHYY.

The Pennsylvania voter registration deadline was yesterday, Oct. 9. In Delaware and New Jersey, the deadlines are Oct. 13 and 16, respectively.

Keep the windshield wipers ready when you drive Interstate 76 through Philadelphia — even on a clear day.

There's a waterfall dropping onto drivers along the Schuylkill Expressway near Philadelphia's 30th Street Station.

Anyone who has driven along I-76 between Market and Chestnut streets in Philadelphia over the past week or so may have noticed that the waterfall coming from the decking above has intensified.

The new section of concrete on the north side of the viaduct was placed by Philadelphia-based contractor Buckley & Company, Inc., on Oct. 2, PennDOT said, sending new water down onto the highway below. 

The water is needed to cure concrete pavement being poured as part of the Schuylkill Avenue Viaduct replacement process, PennDOT said. Water helps the concrete segments properly set over two weeks, meaning this current waterfall, which is most intense in the westbound lanes closer to Market Street, is likely to continue into the weekend.

“When concrete pavement is poured, there is a 14-day curing period where the fresh concrete is covered in burlap and perforated drip hoses are positioned atop the burlap to provide a steady supply of water to keep the burlap wet during the cure,” PennDOT spokesman Brad Rudolph said.

The deluge won't be stopping anytime soon. The ongoing construction project of laying sections of concrete above I-76 between Market and Chestnut streets is set to continue into winter, Rudolph confirmed to NBC10.

So the water will flow until it's cold enough for it to freeze. BCI has, however, agreed to reduce the drip of water, PennDOT said.

Unforeseen circumstances, including weather, could also delay or temporarily stop the project, Rudolph said.

As NBC10 told drivers back in August, the dripping water, which has moved along different parts of both the westbound and eastbound lanes of I-76 between Market and Walnut streets, has, at times, slowed traffic and dripped on people with the sunroof open since late July.

The runoff onto the highway is only water and doesn’t contain any concrete residue that could damage cars, PennDOT said.

Sometimes, drivers have hit the brakes as they approached the sudden downpour. Pennsylvania State Police who monitor I-76 didn't respond to NBC10's request for any crash reports in the soaked area of roadway.

The concrete pouring is part of the three-plus year, $104-million project to rehabilitate the spans in the area of 30th Street Station.

The viaduct construction plan is set to expand Wednesday night when Chestnut Street will be reduced to two travel lanes and bicycle lane between 30th Street and Schuylkill Avenue. The lane restriction is expected to be in place for about six months.

The full list of road closures, lane restrictions and concrete curing plans (subject to change) is available on PennDOT's Chestnut Street Bridges website.