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New App Helps Students Deal With Bullying, Threats and Other Issues

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A new bully-busting app launched Monday in one area school district. Students can anonymously report anything of concern to them from cyber-bullying to threats of violence. As NBC10 shows the app is simple and fast.


Watch: Eagles Fan ‘Blows Away’ Bears' Field Goal Kick

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A missed field goal kick from Chicago Bears’ punter Cody Parkey to send the Eagles to the divisional round sparked a flurry of reaction videos from fans on social media. Yet arguably the most memorable clip featured Jason Catallo of Northeast Philadelphia.

It shows him standing in front of a TV during the final moments of Sunday’s Wild Card game and frantically blowing and waving his arms in order to somehow magically make Parkey miss. He then lets out a joyous scream of victory after the football bounces off the upright.

The video quickly went viral, amassing more than three million views and turning Catallo, a diehard Eagles fan, into an internet sensation.

“I go to a lot of road games,” Catallo told NBC10. “I went to DC last week. I’ve been to Dallas a couple times when they played there. Go to all the home games. Diehard. Since a kid. My mom and dad raised me as an Eagles fan.”

Catallo knows the Birds face a big test Sunday when they face off against the Saints in New Orleans. But after his first attempt to help out the Eagles proved to be successful, he plans to do it all again during the next game. 

“Same play. Same seat. Same house. My buddy Dan’s house in Glenside,” Catallo said.

Catallo is also confident Eagles quarterback Nick Foles will use some special powers of his own.

“If Nick Foles does it again, he might be Jesus Christ himself,” Catallo said. “He might be. Back to back Super Bowl champs? Can’t believe it."

Source: NYPD Searching Pennsylvania Landfill for Missing Dad

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The NYPD has traveled to a Pennsylvania landfill in their ongoing search for a missing Staten Island father who has been presumed dead, law enforcement sources say. 

Law enforcement sources confirmed Monday the NYPD was searching the Republic Service Conestoga Landfill, about 140 miles from New York City, in connection with the disappearance of Michael Stewart.

The 40-year-old father of two was last seen on Dec. 20, and he last sent a text message to his mother on Dec. 21, writing, "Please help me Mom," the New York Post reported

A reporter at The Reading Eagle first spotted NYPD vehicles, along with Pennsylvania state police, leaving the landfill Monday evening. 

Stewart was seen on surveillance video Dec. 20 horsing around with his friend Angelo Nesimi inside a barber shop in Port Richmond. Nesimi is a person of interest in Stewart's disappearance, the Staten Island Advance reported. 

Nesimi, 33, was arrested Dec. 31 in connection to a violent attack on his girlfriend, Zammara Sanchez, police told the Post. The couple were previously questioned in the suspected killing of Stewart, and Sanchez told detectives that her boyfriend "killed somebody -- and he made me go with him to get rid of the body in New Jersey," the Post reported, citing sources. 

Investigators believe it's possible that Stewart's body was dumped in New Jersey, and that sanitation workers may have picked it up with the trash and it was incinerated, the Advance reported, citing a source. Another source said surveillance video shows Nesimi and Sanchez tossing what could be a body into a Dumpster in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, before driving away in a Chrysler sedan. 

Sources also told the Post that Stewart had a relationship with the couple: "It was a relationship between the three of them that ended with [Stewart] stabbed up," a police source told the Post. 

Nesimi told the Daily News in a jailhouse interview this month, "I didn't do it, 100 percent. They're trying to pin it on me."

Both Stewart and Nesimi have criminal records. Nesimi claimed he knew Stewart only for the past few years and that they kept up with each other because they went to the same barber shop, but said they weren't close. 

No one has yet been charged in the suspected killing, and a body has not been found. 



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1 Dead, 2 Hurt After Car Crashes Into Fence Outside Philly Police Garage

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At least one person was killed while two others were hurt after a car crashed into the fence outside of a Philadelphia police garage.

The vehicle crashed into the fence outside the 25th police district garage on Macalester Street and Whitaker Avenue in the Juniata section of the city.

Police say at least one person inside the car was killed while two others are unresponsive.

This story is developing. Check back for updates.

Icy Weather Causes School Delays

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Some icy weather caused school delays in the northern suburbs Tuesday. Get the full list on NBC10 News and NBC10.com.
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Ex-NJ Cop Sentenced to Prison in $187,000 Sandy Fraud

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A former Hoboken police officer has been sentenced to prison in a fraud conviction related to money he got after Hurricane Sandy, prosecutors say.

Nikola Lulaj, 45, of Seaside Heights, was sentenced to five years in state prison, and wife Majlinda Lulaj, 32, was sentenced to three years probation and 50 hours of community service. The couple was also ordered to pay full restitution of $187,000. 

An Ocean County jury found the two guilty of conspiracy, theft by deception and unsworn falsification last October. 

Prosecutors said the husband and wife received FEMA assistance, state grants and other public money designated for Sandy survivors by lying on applications for the relief funds. 

They'd claimed the lived primarily in their Webster Avenue home in Seaside Heights, which was damaged during Sandy, when in fact they were living in Dumont, and was using the Jersey Shore home as a vacataion and rental property. 

Lulaj resigned from the Hoboken Police Department after he was convicted. 

“For a police officer to commit this type of fraud is particularly egregious, because officers take an oath to uphold the law and we rightly hold them to the highest standards,” said Attorney General Gurbir Grewal. “When disaster strikes, we cannot allow dishonest applicants to divert disaster relief funds from the intended recipients – namely, those victims whose primary homes were destroyed or damaged.”

Reading Terminal Market Named Best Farmers Market in U.S.

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The Online Farmers Market named Reading Terminal Market the best farmers market in America. The website highlighted the Center City Philadelphia market's wide variety of food options and its year-round operations.



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Philly Rally Calls for End of Partial Government Shutdown

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President Donald Trump will address the public from the Oval Office Tuesday night as he talks about the ongoing impasse with congressional leaders over funding for the border wall between the United States and Mexico. Effected government workers rallied in Old City on Tuesday with hopes to get back to work soon.



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Supreme Court Eases Requirements for NJ Drug Court Graduates

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A ruling by New Jersey's Supreme Court has made it easier for drug offenders who've completed a court-supervised program to have their criminal records expunged.

The court on Tuesday reversed a lower court decision that said drug court graduates had the burden of showing that expungement for certain drug sale offenses was in the public interest. The justices found that successful graduates are entitled to a rebuttable presumption that expungement is consistent with the public interest.

Drug court participants are monitored by a team of prosecutors, probation officers and treatment providers. They must be drug-free for a year to graduate.

First- and second-degree drug sale offenses are barred from expungement. But the law allows less-serious drug sale offenses to be expunged if the public-interest requirement is met.



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At Trial, Suspect Pins Temple Student's Killing on Roommate

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The man currently on trial for the 2017 murder of a Temple University student claims his roommate actually ended the young woman's life to quiet her screams during a knife attack.

The scenario was laid out by Josh Hupperterz's defense attorney during an opening statement in a Philadelphia courtroom on Tuesday.

Attorney David Nenner told a jury that the victim, Jenna Burleigh, sliced Hupperterz in the hand with a knife while fighting about sex in the early morning hours of Aug. 31, 2017. The two had met a short time earlier at a bar near Temple's campus.

Nenner said Hupperterz, 29, and Burleigh, 22, had consensual sex, but that the two began arguing after his client initiated anal intercourse.

The argument spilled into the kitchen of Hupperterz's N. 16th Street apartment where, according to the attorney, Burleigh stabbed him. Nenner said Huppertertz's roommate ran into the kitchen after hearing screams, attacked Burleigh and ultimately strangled her to death.

Hupperterz pleaded not guilty to murder and use of an instrument of a crime, but pleaded guilty to abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence for moving Burleigh's body to his grandparent's home in rural Pennsylvania.

Nenner said Hupperterz's roommate would testify at the trial.

Prosecutors rebuked the defense's assertions in their own impassioned opening argument before a packed courtroom — where Burleigh's parents and friends sat in the gallery — inside the city's Criminal Justice Center in Center City. 

Assistant District Attorney Jason Grenell said Hupperterz, after having oral, vaginal and anal intercourse with Burleigh, took “her down to the ground and strangled her, naked, on the kitchen floor.”

Grenell said Hupperterz punched the film student 38 times, broke a cereal bowl over her head, stabbed her repeatedly after wrestling a knife from her, then strangled her, so severely he broke her larynx.

“It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. You stare at the phone waiting for the call,” Grenell said. “The Burleighs would never have that. They would never hear from their daughter again.”

Hupperterz allegedly stuffed her body into a blue plastic storage bin and moved it to his mother’s home in Jenkintown, authorities said in September that year. Sources told NBC10 at the time that the 29-year-old then used a Lyft ride-hailing car to transport the remains to his grandmother’s home in Wayne County, Pennsylvania.

Hupperterz's grandfather allegedly found Burleigh's body one day after a Philadelphia police detective and FBI agent visited the property.

Hupperterz turned down a plea offer in December from the Philadelphia District Attorney's office, which had offered 30-to-60 years in prison in exchange for a guilty plea. Hupperterz could face up to life in prison if convicted at trial which is expected to last for up to two weeks.

Initial accounts by investigators of Burleigh's death alleged a grisly murder and cover-up that are eerily similar to circumstances surrounding Hupperterz's father's murder 24 years earlier.

The body of Octavio Hupperterz was found wrapped in a trash bag outside of a business in the Wyndmoor section of Springfield Township, Montgomery County, in 1993. Josh Hupperterz was 4 at the time.

Octavio died from a bullet to the back of the head, his hands tied behind his back and shoved into a garbage bag when he was found.

Sources had told NBC10 in 2017 that investigators believed the elder Hupperterz, who lived in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, was killed at another location and his body dumped in Montgomery County.



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Amazon Pickup Location Comes to Philly's South Street

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Philadelphia’s second Amazon-branded pickup center has opened just blocks from posh Rittenhouse Square.

The Amazon pickup location opened Tuesday morning at 2300 South Street on the Grays Ferry Triangle in the Southwest Center City neighborhood.

The pickup spot where customers can return pickup boxes, hold packages or return unwanted items is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week. It features a half dozen parking spots and Amazon associates and kiosks, Amazon spokeswoman Alyssa Bronikowski said.

The only other Amazon pickup center in Philly is located in University City. 

The location, which NBC10 was one of the first media entities to tell you about, comes to a lot that once was a theater and more recently a Green Drop location.

Go to the Amazon website for details on secure pickup and returns.



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Area Eaglets Cheer on the Eagles!

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Additional Charges for Man Arrested in Burglary of Slain Model’s Main Line Home

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New details in the case of the man charged with breaking into the Main Line home of a woman just days before her death. Andre Melton arrived at court Tuesday only to be arrested again. Melton is accused of burglarizing Christina Carlin-Kraft’s Ardmore condo just two days before she was found beaten and strangled inside. Another man is charged in her murder.

Remains Found in North Philly Property Set to Be Demolished

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An investigation is underway after skeletal remains were found inside a vacant property in North Philadelphia Tuesday.

The skeletal remains of the unidentified victim were discovered inside a property on the 2700 block of North 15th Street. Officials say the building was scheduled to be demolished.

Police have not revealed a cause of death and continue to investigate.

This story is developing. Check back for updates.

How the Government Shutdown Is Affecting Weather Forecasts

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You’ve heard our NBC10 First Alert weather team talk about it before: "We're watching the differences between the American and European weather models."

This week is no different. The team is watching those models, and many others, ahead of a possible winter storm over the weekend.

But the American model is being affected in ways unrelated to Mother Nature. The federal government shutdown, now three weeks in, has begun taking a toll on the weather world.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, is functioning under a "partial shutdown." 

Agencies you may be familiar with, like the National Weather Service and the Weather Prediction Center and many others weather- and climate-related, all operate within NOAA.

These agencies analyze data, develop forecasts, and provide statistics the NBC10 First Alert weather team (and meteorologists across the country) use to make their official forecasts each day.

NOAA's partial shutdown means operations that are considered “mission critical” are still functioning. Those operations include things like populating the weather.gov website with forecasts, and ensuring major weather events are watched and warned across the country. Those government employees whose jobs fall under the status “mission critical” are still working, while not being paid.

Unfortunately, maintenance on the American computer model, known as the Global Forecasting System (GFS), is not considered critical.

The result?

According to the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang, the GFS is running poorly.

Typically, a large team of scientists works quality control on the model to ensure the future forecasts for winds, temperatures, rain or snow (and a ton of other factors) are the most accurate they can possibly be. They’re checking data is entered into the extremely intricate model correctly. They’re ensuring no errors occur within the system’s output. They’re always working on improvements to the model.

Without a team to do these daily tasks, the GFS begins to degrade.

The Washington Post spoke to members of various departments who confirmed the quality of the model (and several other American computer models) is lower, and there’s simply no one to fix it.

There is some good news for you at home.

Our NBC10 First Alert Weather Team doesn’t use only one model to make a forecast.  Instead, the team peels through many models daily. Based off the various models, each models’ different solutions (models typically put out several updated data sets each day) and the team’s knowledge of model bias (some computer models run hot or cold, snowy or dry), our team of meteorologists makes a specific forecast for our region's many neighborhoods. We update those forecasts throughout the day—and now the team knows to work around the weakness of the GFS.



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NJ Judge Issues Arrest Warrant for Vet in GoFundMe Case

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A homeless veteran at the center of the ongoing GoFundMe scandal failed to appear in court Tuesday, prompting a New Jersey judge to issue a warrant for his arrest. 

The latest twist came less than three weeks after John Bobbit Jr. promised to make his next court day, prosecutors said. 

But on Tuesday, it became apparent that was not going to happen. 

"I spoke to him in the last week. I expected him here," Bobbit's lawyer, Jay Keesler, said.

Bobbit has also failed to prove that he entered a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program or found a job and place to live, Burlington County Judge Mark Tarantino said.

Last week, New Jersey Republican Rep. Ron Dancer introduced a bill that would tighten penalties for fraud schemes like the one involving Bobbit and a New Jersey couple who allegedly duped people into giving more than $400,000.

Convicted fraudsters who use crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe in their schemes would face mandatory jail time and have to pay restitution under his proposal, according to the bill.

Mark D'Amico and Katelyn McClure set up a GoFundMe page for Bobbitt in 2017 that brought in over $400,000. They said Bobbitt was homeless and used his last $20 to help a stranded McClure.

The pair and Bobbitt face charges including theft by deception. GoFundMe said it refunded everyone who contributed.



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Eagles Fans Get Their Gear Ahead of Playoff Matchup With Saints

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White, midnight green and pristine. NBC10 was inside Lattanzio's Linn Cleaners in South Philadelphia where the Eagles jerseys get the full wash and dry treatment. Fans are getting their team gear ready for Sunday's game. 

Experts Concerned About Residents Touching Animals at the Shore

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A young seal attracted major attention in North Wildwood, New Jersey. Now experts are concerned for the safety of both animals and curious onlookers at the Shore.

NBC10 Responds: Future of Sears in Limbo

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A bankruptcy judge is giving Sears' chairman Eddie Lampert one last shot to save the department store chain. A judge said Lampert's hedge fund has until 4 p.m. Wednesday to front $120 million, allowing stores to stay open for now. NBC10 Responds finds out what Sears' financial dilemma means to you.



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Flu Season Ramps Up in Our Area

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Flu season is ramping up. The New Jersey Department of Health confirmed its first pediatric flu death of the season. Meanwhile two people died from the flu last week in Delaware, bringing the state's total to five so far this year.



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