A man came home Tuesday night to find a group of armed men rummaging through his Philadelphia home.

One of those men wouldn't make it out of that home alive and the homeowner would wind up in the hospital, according to Philadelphia Police. 

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Just before 10 p.m., police responded to the 5700 block of Wyndale Avenue in the city's Wynnefield section.

When they arrived they found a man in his 20s dead of a gunshot wound to his head and a 22-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound to his leg, according to Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small.

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Officers rushed the injured man to the Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania.

"The 22-year-old male who was shot in the leg lives at this location," said Small.

Small said that when the man returned home with his 26-year-old live-in girlfriend they found four to five men, some wearing masks and some carrying guns, burglarizing their home.

A gun battle ensued.

"Who fired the shots? We don't know at this time," said Small.

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Investigators found spent shell casings near the dead man's body and some more on the steps. They also found a couple weapons on the scene.

He also said that the dead man had on gloves. The other suspects got away.

The live-in girlfriend wasn't hurt.

It appeared that the suspects broke in through a first-floor window, said Small.

The victims were talking to detectives as the investigation continued Wednesday.

Small said it's rare for something like this to happen in this normally quiet neighborhood.

"This is normally a nice, quiet, peaceful neighborhood."

Small said however there have been some burglaries in the neighborhood in the past.

The Julia R. Masterman School chess team found themselves in a familiar situation in Atlanta, Georgia over the weekend. The team, composed of students, Angel Hernandez-Camen, Srisa Changolkar, Shira Moolten, Torin Kuehnle and Nalin Khanna were competing in their second National Junior High chess championship in a row.

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Yet while the team had won the K-8 national title last year, the pressure and the stakes were as high as ever during the competition this year, which was composed of over 1300 players from 38 states.

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“This year was much harder,” said the team’s coach and former Masterman player, 35-year-old Greg Shahade. “We had one less player although all of our players were much better than they were last year. It came down to the wire.”

• Local Team Makes the Right Moves, Brings Home National Chess Title

While chess has long been viewed as an individual game, winning the national championship requires a team effort.

“You play seven games in the tournament,” Shahade said. “The top four scores for your team are added up and that’s what your score is. Going to bed the night before the final rounds, we were not in the lead and it looked like there was a good chance we wouldn’t win.”

With the victory not guaranteed and facing opponents ranked higher than him, 13-year-old Srisa Changolkar came through in the clutch.

“He tied the number one ranked player in the tournament and he beat someone higher ranked than him,” Shahade said. “Once he won that game, we were pretty much guaranteed the title.”

Srisa and his teammate, Angel Hernandez-Camen, both earned scores of 5 ½ points, enough to give Masterman a narrow victory, and their second straight national championship.

“I was really happy,” Srisa said. “I mean, two years in a row!”

Srisa and Angel also ranked sixth and seventh in the individual competition. Shahade says the team’s success is a testament to their hard work.

“These kids work on chess year-round,” Shahade said. “We’ve been working every week throughout the entire year to get better at chess. It’s year-round practice and constant improvement.”

Along with his team’s hard work, Shahade also credits the efforts of Stephen Shutt, who not only helps coach the current team but also coached Shahade when he was a student and chess player at Masterman.

“Stephen Shutt has been part of the program at Masterman for decades,” Shahade said. “I won a national championship under him when I went to school there. He’s the main reason why Masterman has succeeded for so many years.”

Just like his coaches, Srisa has a tremendous passion for the game, which he says began five years ago when he started to watch his family play.

“My sister and dad were playing quite often,” he said. “I liked to watch them and my interest in the game came from there. I love the fact that it’s not one-sided, whatever happens. There’s some characteristic of luck but there’s also a lot of skill involved.”

Despite his tremendous success and expert rating, Srisa believes there are still many aspects in his game that he needs to improve.

“I plan to get better and I will try to compete for first place,” Srisa said.

It’s this drive and determination in all of his players that makes Shahade confident his team will win the national title again next year, completing the three-peat.

“We are losing one player, Shira, she’s a 9th grader,” Shahade said. “But we have everyone else coming back. We’ll have a new player and they’ll be a year stronger. Our kids work hard. I expect next year we will win.”
 

Police in a northern New Jersey community are warning residents of coyote sightings and even one reported attack on a pet dog.

Elmwood Park police sent a letter to residents informing them of multiple coyote sightings in and around the wooded area of town. They said one coyote attacked a resident's dog, causing the dog to suffer minor injuries.

There have been no reports of coyotes threatening people.

The New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife says it's become "quite common for coyotes to enter into urban and residential areas and in many cases make small wooded areas their home,"  according to Police Captain Michael Foligno.

He added that trapping and relocating the animals isn't currently an option, but if the coyotes at some point become aggressive towards people, they could revisit the plan.

Coyotes generally hide from humans but in the spring, when they give birth and begin to raise litters, they concentrate their activities around dens or burrows in which the young are sheltered, according to the Humane Society, and may become defensive and territorial.

People who encounter a coyote should never run away; instead, they're encouraged to "haze" the animal with techniques like making loud noises or throwing sticks or objects towards (but not at) the coyote.

Anyone who encounters a coyote in Elmwood Park is asked to call 201-796-0700.

In March, a Rockland woman reported a coyote attacked her and her dog; last summer, a Westchester family's dog was killed last summer by a coyote.

The Hoboken man who was last seen jogging near the Hudson River late last month after a night out with friends has died, his family says.

In a Facebook post Tuesday, Andrew Jarzyk's brother Steve thanked friends for their support and said the search had a "very tragic ending." The 27-year-old bank employee disappeared March 29 after leaving friends at a nightclub in Hoboken.

"Andrew's life on this earth was indeed cut very short," Steve Jarzyk said. "If you've crossed paths with him over these 27 years, consider yourself lucky."

The post didn't elaborate on where Andrew Jarzyk's was found, and attempts to reach the family Tuesday were unsuccessful. 

Relatives say Andrew Jarzyk was with friends at the West Five Supper Club on Madison Street the night of March 29. Around 1 a.m., he apparently told them he would be right back and never returned. 

Surveillance video from a restaurant shows the 27-year-old running in exercise clothes near the river at about 2 a.m. Another camera captures him jogging into a park nearly a minute later -- and then he vanishes.

Neither Hoboken police or the medical examiner's office would confirm his death Tuesday night.  

It's not clear if the Andrew Jarzyk's body was the one  found in the Hudson River Monday evening.

The self-proclaimed "cat lady" turned herself in at police headquarters Tuesday night, according to investigators.

• "Crazy Cat Lady" Hoards Hundreds of Felines

A warrant was issued for the arrest of Lanie Jacobson last month after Pennsylvania SPCA Humane Law Enforcement Officers removed hundreds of cats from her home in the Frankford section of Philadelphia.

About 240 cats were discovered in two connected "unsanitary" row homes on the 1600 block of Filmore Street. This came after officers found dozens of other felines during an earlier visit to the homes.

A sign on the gate of the home reads "I'm the Crazy Cat Lady. And this is the crazy cat house."

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According to records, Jacobson had been running a licensed animal shelter known as Animals in Crisis since 2002. SPCA officials say they began to investigate her earlier this year after receiving a tip from a concerned citizen. Officials say Jacobson initially cooperated with them and turned over as many as 30 cats during an earlier visit. However, they then asked her to surrender more cats after conditions worsened but she allegedly refused.

"She declined to continue cooperating with us," said Sara Eremus of the SPCA. "It was a situation where we needed to just go in there and take them."

SPCA officials arrived at the home around 10 a.m. on March 26. Investigators say conditions inside the home were so deplorable and unsanitary that the officers had to wear respirators while removing the animals.

Workers from the SPCA spent the day at the house removing the cats. The felines that were removed were transported to PSPCA headquarters on Erie Avenue for vet exams, treatment and shelter.

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"PSPCA's ultimate goal here is to find the cats good homes once it obtains legal custody of them," officials stated in a press release.

In total, animal officers estimate Jacobson kept more than 300 cats in her home.

According to the SPCA, Jacobson was operating a cat rescue but became overwhelmed.

Alicia Manfredi told NBC10 she used to work at Jacobson's shelter and was not surprised by the discovery.

"I watched the cats being abused," Manfredi said.

Manfredi claims that she filed a complaint against the owner back in 2011 before quitting. She also sent NBC10 pictures of what it looked like inside.

"Everything was neglected," Manfredi said. "Feces, urine, everywhere. It was just really awful, even for us to be working in."

While the SPCA confirmed a complaint was filed back in 2011, they claim they searched the shelter at the time and did not find any signs of neglect.

On March 27, the PSPCA announced that Jacobson would face charges. On April 28, Jacobson surrendered to police and was charged with possession and conspiracy to possess a ketamine solution. She was released on her own recognizance according to investigators.

"We look forward to our day in court," said Andrew Levin, Jacobson's attorney.

Rescue officials say Jacobson's cats will be made available for adoption.

An armed robber opened fire on a Montgomery County gas station clerk this morning.

The gunman approached a clerk  working at the A-Plus store at the Sunoco station at Dekalb Pike (U.S. Route 202) and Germantown Pike in East Norriton, Pa. around 4 a.m. Wednesday.

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County dispatchers said that during the robbery the gunman shot the clerk in the leg.

The worker was rushed to Paoli Hospital while his attacker got away.

Police investigated the incident through the early morning.

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They wouldn't immediately say if anything was taken.

No word yet on a suspect description.

A deer that found its way onto the PATCO train tracks crossing the Benjamin Franklin Bridge caused service delays on the high-speed line Wednesday morning.

PATCO officials told passengers that the wild animal somehow got access to the eastbound set of tracks, which run along the side of the suspension bridge that spans the Delaware River, on the Philadelphia side around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The deer may have entered the line through an interchange in Old City Philadelphia, officials said.

A train conductor was able to stop the train and avoid hitting the deer, but it then jumped into the roadway on the bridge and was hit by a vehicle, according to PATCO. The deer did not survive.

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Trains were delayed by nearly 30 minutes as crews worked to clear up the mess.

Jeremy Behrens saw the deer.

"I was ready with my camera," he said, but "Deer was eastbound and I was westbound."

Behrens gave a heads up to other riders via Twitter:

@PatcoWatchers you will never believe the reason for the delay right now on @RidePATCO. A live deer on the bridge on the east bound tracks

— Jeremy Behrens (@JeremyBehrens) April 30, 2014

PATCO called the incident "highly unusual."

@JeremyBehrens @PatcoWatchers Yes a deer on the tracks in Philly is highly unusual. Not sure how it got there but we're addressing it ASAP.

— PATCO (@RidePATCO) April 30, 2014

NBC10.com received several reports of a deer roaming through downtown Philadelphia earlier this morning -- including 9th and Market Streets and at 15th and Ellsworth Streets. It's unclear if this is the same deer.

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PATCO resumed regular service about an hour later.

Contact Vince Lattanzio at 610.668.5532, vince.lattanzio@nbcuni.com or follow @VinceLattanzio on Twitter.

Police in force responded to a bank robbery in a normally sleepy Montgomery County town this morning that led to temporary school lockdowns.

County dispatchers told NBC10 that someone robbed the VIST Bank location at the intersection of Dekalb Pike (U.S. Route 202) and W Skippack Pike (Route 73) in Blue Bell, Pa. around 8:15 a.m.

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Whitemarsh Township Police described the thief as a man in his 40s or 50s standing about 6-foot, 1-inch tall who was wearing a hoodie and armed with a semi-automatic handgun. After taking an undisclosed amount of money the man fled out towards Route 202, according to federal investigators.

Police reported no injuries.

About an hour later, police said they received a report of a suspicious male running through yards in the 1600 block of Sullivan Drive.

A witness said police with rifles could be seen searching in the area.

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Three local schools were put on lockdown temporarily as police looked for the man.

Police eventually caught up to the suspicious man and determined he wasn't the thief.

As the search for the bank robber continued the branch remained closed. A sign hung on the door of the bank that read "Due to an emergency, this office is temporarily closed."

Anyone who recognizes the suspect should contact Whitpain Police at 610-279-9033.

This heist came just hours after a Sunoco A-Plus store up Dekalb Pike was robbed overnight. In that heist a clerk was shot in the leg.

• Robber Shoots Gas Station Clerk

“Find Your Path”

That’s the new slogan for Philadelphia’s Parks & Recreation Department.

Parks & Rec officials will join Mayor Michael Nutter Wednesday to announce the new brand campaign.

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Before the official announcement, the department released a nearly 5-minute long video featuring people of all types of backgrounds and ages enjoying Philly’s green spaces, playgrounds and gyms.

The highly-stylized video features views of games, parks, ice rinks, pools and even beauty shots of Forbidden Drive in Fairmount Park and Fitler Square in Center City.

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What do you think of the message? Does this new campaign help you “find your path” to your parks and rec centers?

A 13-year-old Delaware boy took off on a joyride in his dad's SUV this morning and ended up first in a ditch and then in the hospital.

"No one was home at the time, and he just decided to go for a ride," said Master Corporal Gary Fournier with the Delaware State Police.

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The teen got behind the wheel of his father's Toyota 4Runner shortly after 7 a.m. and drove along Bloomfield Drive near Harrington, Kent County.

The SUV knocked out a telephone pole when it veered into a ditch. Once he got back onto the road, the teen was able to stop the vehicle, according to police.

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Another driver who witnessed the accident stopped and kept the teen company until police and emergency crews arrived.

"He was walking around, talking to the witness and seemed to be in good spirits," Fournier said.

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The teen was taken to the hospital, where he's being treated for minor injuries. He was cited for careless driving, failure to stay in a single lane, no insurance, no registration and driving without a valid license.

If you are searching for pieces of Lower Providence Township history, you might want to start at your very own keyboard. A quick perusal of the popular, international online auction website, eBay, shows that some of the past is right here, lingering in the future.

One such item up for sale doesn’t take a long trip down memory lane. A Lower Providence Police Department (LPPD) shoulder patch dated around 1990 is up for sale. The three-by-three-inch embroidered cloth badge likely used to don a police officer’s uniform.

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Up for sale by “ParaLegalEliot13,” who has 100 percent positive feedback, the item is currently listed under “Buy It Now” for $24.95. Auction buyers might also select to “Make an Offer” on the item to place a bid with the seller. Shipping for the badge is listed at $2.32 for standard shipping.

Those looking to dive in a little deeper might want to check out a used book, also being sold on the popular website. “A Bicentennial History of Lower Providence Township,” is up for sale for just $5.95 on eBay. It is listed as an item to “But It Now” and offers free shipping via the seller, “FairDealDonn” who has 100 percent positive feedback from 579 reviewing users.

The book, which totals 84 pages, was printed in 1976 to celebrate the nation’s bicentennial. It was printed in Phoenixville by Levy Printing. It is listed in “good” condition.

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The history doesn’t stop there. Last but not least, real history buffs in the township might want to take a good look at a map of the township. The antique printed map is dated 1871, when the township still had boundaries much like they appear today. For $49.99, the map has sketched upon it landmarks such as the Perkiomen Bridge, Mount Kirk, Providence Square, Whetherill’s Corner, Shannonville and Evansburg. The map is hand-colored and not a print replica, according to its description. It dates from the 1871 Hopkins Atlas of Montgomery County. It is said to measure 13.5 by 15.5 inches, per its written description.

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Its seller is offering a “Buy It Now” feature with $3.75 for standard shipping on top of the sale price. The seller, named “GreyPilgrimBooksAndMaps” has 99.6 percent positive feedback from 39,736 reviewing users.

For more information on the historic items for sale, visit eBay.com and search the name of the municipality or click on the hyperlinks above. Happy history shopping, LP residents!

This story was published through a news content partnership between The Alternative Press of Lower Providence and NBC10.com

Flyers fans are FlyeredUp and ready for Game 7 of the postseason matchup against the New York Rangers. 

Fans are posting their Flyers fandom and well wishes on Twitter. Below's a sampling.

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A suburban Philadelphia school board has approved a new policy that forbids a school newspaper from banning the word ``Redskins'' when referring to its sports teams or controversial mascot.

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The Neshaminy High School newspaper staff voted in October to ban the word, calling it a racial slur. A directive from the school's principal in December stated that the newspaper wasn't allowed to do that.

The Bucks County Courier Times said board members who voted Tuesday to forbid The Playwickian from banning the word ``Redskins'' said it violated the free-speech rights of students wishing to publish articles about the school's teams.

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Editorial page co-editor Jack Haines said the staff would speak to their own counsel, obtained through the Student Press Law Center, before deciding on their next step.
 

Radnor Police Superintendent Bill Coraulo announced the arrest of man who has allegedly harassed and stalked area women in their 20s.

Kornwell Chan, 39, is charged with three counts of criminal trespass and ten counts each of stalking, harassment and tresspass from a fall 2013 incident.

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Chan is listed on the Megan's Law website and lives in the 1900 Block of Audubon Drive in Dresher.

On April 22, Villanova Public Safety called the Radnor Police about a trespasser in the library. Chan was found in the library stalking a young woman and he did not have proper identification permitting him to be there.

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"This individual has a chronic problem of targeting unsuspecting and helpfless females by stalking them or breaking into their homes or taking improper pictures of them when they least expect it." 

The recent alleged stalking incident at the Villanova library is not the first time he's been accused.

In 2012, Chan admitted to stalking a Springfield, Montgomery County woman and stealing her underwear at a break in at her home and to using a video camera to look up skirts at the King of Prussia Mall.

In December 2012, Chan pleaded guilty to multiple charges in connection with incidents between October 2011 and May 2012.

"I think Mr. Chan should not be walking around the streets of Radnor or the Delaware Valley. I would consider him a predator. Somebody doesn't get on Megan's Law website by accident. With behvavior like this, people can't help themselves. They don't stop," said Coraulo. 

Johnson & Johnson is halting sales of devices used to remove growths in the uterus following a government warning that the electronic surgical tools can inadvertently spread cancer to other parts of the body.

The announcement comes one week after the Food and Drug Administration discouraged doctors from using the devices, known as laparoscopic power morcellators. Surgeons use the devices to treat painful fibroids, either by removing the growths themselves or the entire uterus. Power morcellators shred the tissue so it can be removed through a small incision in the abdomen, instead of a larger opening required for traditional surgery.

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The FDA said there is a significant risk that the devices can grind up undetected uterine tumors, spreading the cancer to the pelvis, abdomen and other regions.

J&J said in a statement that its three power morcellators have always included language cautioning doctors about this risk. The company said the sales suspension applies to its Gynecare Morcellex, Morcellex Sigma and Gynecare X-Tract devices.

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"We believe that suspending the commercialization of these products until their role is better understood and redefined by the medical community is the appropriate course of action at this time," a spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.

Doctors have long recognized the risk of accidentally spreading cancer from undetected tumors, but FDA officials said last Thursday that the problem now appears far more common than previously thought. An FDA analysis estimated that 1 in 350 U.S. women who undergo fibroid procedures each year have a form of cancer called uterine sarcoma.

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Fibroids are non-cancerous growths in the uterus that can cause severe pain, heavy bleeding, and bladder and bowel dysfunction, mostly among women in their late 30s and 40s. It's unclear what causes the tumor-like growths — which can grow as large as cantaloupes — but they account for an estimated 240,000 of the 600,000 annual hysterectomies in the U.S. At least 50,000 U.S. women undergo hysterectomy using the power morcellation technique.

Hysterectomy, or surgically removing the uterus, is a key treatment because it is the only way to ensure that fibroids do not return. Myomectomy, surgery that removes fibroids while leaving the uterus intact, is recommended for women who still want to become pregnant.

A new report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) found bad news for minimum wage workers.

The national report entitled Out of Reach found that the average minimum wage worker in Pennsylvania would need to earn at least $17 an hour--more than two-and-a-half times higher than the state's $7.25 minimum wage--in order to afford a two-bedroom dwelling.

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According to the report, in the Philadelphia region, the average two-bedroom costs $1,135 dollars a month. A person would have to work three full-time jobs at minimum wage or earn at least $45,400 annually to be able to afford two-bedroom housing anywhere in the region.

NLIHC's Senior Vice President for Policy, Linda Couch, said the report findings show a gross mismatch in earnings and housing costs, and force workers to make some difficult financial decisions.

"In the Philadelphia area, someone would have to earn more than $21 an hour to afford the average two bedroom apartment; $21 an hour is leaps and bounds above what the minimum wage is in Philadelphia," Couch said.

"So their options are to move further and further away and to contribute to traffic and congestion; or to live, maybe in substandard housing, which no one wants for anyone in our communities; or to pay really high percentages of their income toward their housing costs, which leaves them less for other of life’s necessities like food, and clothing and health care."

County-by-county breakdown on hourly wage needed for a typical 2-bedroom dwelling:

NLIHC has conducted the national report to document changes in housing costs and wages in the U.S. since 1989. The report calculates the housing wage -- the amount a person would need to earn in order to afford housing--for each state, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

Nationwide, this year's report found that the average hourly wage needed to afford a two-bedroom at fair market value is $18.92, more than two-and-a-half times the federal minimum wage of $7.25.

According to Couch, even a modest increase in the federal minimum wage would have little impact on the nation's housing affordability to wage earnings gap.

"The federal minimum wage, if it was to be raised to $10.10 or $12.10 would still be insufficient to meet people’s really basic needs like housing," she said.

"For a lot of people, the minimum wage is the ceiling; its what they earn now and what they’ll probably earn in a couple of years. Where ideally, that would be the floor, and that would be where we would start from and people would move up. But people’s wages are stagnating and in a lot of markets people’s wages are going down just as rents are going up.”

The report found an even larger gap between earning wage and housing costs in New Jersey and Delaware.

The NLIHC report found that New Jersey has the 5th highest housing wage in the nation at $24.92. Delaware came in 12th with a housing wage of $20.09.

On Friday, local activists gathered in locations throughout the Philadelphia region to demand an increased minimum wage of $15.