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Flood Waters Finally Free Trapped SEPTA Bus
Flood waters finally receded in Manayunk, allowing SEPTA to tow away a bus that was nearly washed over by the raging Schuylkill River.

Dramatic Images Show Flood Scenes Throughout Region
During a nine-hour period, some parts of our area received more than six inches of rain.

Bride Charged for Shooting, Killing Niece
A Pennsylvania bride accused of killing her niece after the wedding has been ordered to stand trial on homicide and other charges.cting customers.

Angry Letter Criticizes 'Curb Appeal' of Elderly Couple
An elderly couple is trying to track down the person who left them an anonymous letter criticizing the curb appeal of their Ocean City home.

Concrete Beam Falls from Center City High-Rise
A large concrete-wrapped beam fell from a Center City high-rise overnight Friday ladning on the sidewalk outside a popular restaurant.

Teenage Hacker Takes Down Reading Terminal's Website
The website for the popular Reading Terminal Market in downtown Philadelphia was hacked at the apparent fingertips of a teenager.

Police are searching for two suspects who they say shot a man after contacting him about a dirt bike for sale through the online classifieds site Craigslist.

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The 31-year-old victim was shot once in the chest around 4:45 p.m. on April 25 along the 3700 block of North 5th Street in the Hunting Park section of Philadelphia, according to police.

Detectives said the suspects and the dirt bike owner got into an argument when the two men tried to start the bike and take off without paying.

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One of the men pulled out a handgun and pointed it at the victim's chest, firing after his accomplice yelled, "Shoot him," according to police. The pair then stole the bike and fled south on North 5th Street and then west on Erie Street, according to officials.

Witnesses rushed the the victim in their car to Temple University Hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery.

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Police are asking for the public's help identifying the suspects, who can be seen riding the Yamaha on the sidewalk in surveillance video.

Authorities describe the shooter as a 20-year-old male, who is 5-feet and 4-inches tall and weighs approximately 150 pounds. He can be seen wearing dark-colored clothing in the surveillance footage.

The second suspect is described as a 20-year-old male, who is 6-feet tall and weighs about 250 pounds. He was wearing a gray sweat suit and a white t-shirt during the incident.

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Officials say the dirt bike is an older model white Yamaha 125 with decals posted all over the frame.

Investigators say anyone who sees the suspects should not approach them and call 911. Anyone with information on the suspects or the incident is asked to contact the police tip line at 215-686-TIPS.

A 22-year-old college student is dead after he slammed his vehicle into a school bus as it was leaving campus early Saturday morning.

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In a letter posted to Rider University's website, School President Mordechai Rozanski wrote, "It is with deep sadness and a heavy heart that I confirm the tragic loss of Rider Student, Eliseo Diaz, who was killed early this morning in an automobile accidnet near the entrance to campus."

Witnesses say Diaz's vehicle was speeding on Route 206 near the south entrance of Rider University in Lawrence, N.J. around 2:15 a.m. when it crashed into a school bus that was exiting the campus.

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"We extend our sincerest condolences to his family and friends," Rozanski wrote.

The car did not have its lights on while it sped past campus, according to witnesses.

The bus, one of four that had recently dropped students at the campus, had no passengers on board when the accident occurred.

Counselors are available to students at the Zoerner House, according to the school website.

Heavy rainfall that forced the Schuylkill River to swell beyond its banks Thursday caused officials to scrap a regatta scheduled for Sunday.

Philadelphia's Commision on Parks and Recreation canceled the Philadelphia Scholastic Rowing Association's City Championship scheduled for May 4, citing the damage sustained by this week's flood.

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The regatta, which was set to begin at 8 a.m. and run until nearly 7 p.m., has been tentatively rescheduled for May 18, according to the Rowing Association's website.

Even though many of the boats were unaffected by the flooding, boathouses along the river as well as the pavement on Kelly Drive needed repairs.

• College Student Dead in School Bus Crash

"The last couple hurricanes weren't as bad as this one," said Ryan Rickess of Philadelphia City Rowing.

Markings in one boathouse showed the water reached a higher level Thursday than it had during Hurricane Irene.

The postponement also led the Scholastic Rowing Association of America to push back its deadline for Philadelphia Scholastic Rowing Association teams to submit race times to May 19, according to the PSRA's twitter account.

There is perhaps only one accusation either of the two Republicans running for a central New Jersey congressional seat is certain not to sling: that his opponent is a carpetbagger.
 
That's because both Tom MacArthur and Steve Lonegan moved into the 3rd District to seek the seat after Republican incumbent Jon Runyan announced he wouldn't run again. It's the only congressional seat in the state that politicians and observers agree could be taken by either party.

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The candidates, both former northern New Jersey mayors, describe themselves as conservative but differ over a lot: taxes, health care and federal Superstorm Sandy recovery aid. The race has been heated, with MacArthur bashing Lonegan for opposing federal disaster relief and Lonegan seizing on a report critical of business practices by the insurance company MacArthur used to run.
 
The district, which stretches from the Philadelphia suburbs to the shore, is one of three in New Jersey where an incumbent congressman has made a surprise announcement in the last six months that he is not seeking re-election. All three have attracted deep slates of candidates for the June 3 primary.

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In the 3rd, three Democrats have been running a quieter campaign so far. Burlington County Freeholder Aimee Belgard has the support of the Democratic organizations in both Burlington and Ocean counties and the backing of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Democrats Howard Kleinhendler and Bruce Todd are also running.
 
Lonegan, who entered the race weeks after losing a special U.S. Senate election to Democrat Cory Booker and declaring his days of running for office were over, has a network of conservative activists in the area from his time as one of the state's best-known anti-tax activists. The former New Jersey director of Americans for Prosperity and mayor of the Bergen County town of Bogota is perhaps more popular in conservative Ocean County than anywhere else in the Democrat-leaning state.

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He lost his U.S. Senate election to Booker by more than 10 percentage points statewide but won in the towns that make up the 3rd District by more than five points. While he has support in the area, the Republican organizations in both counties are supporting MacArthur.
 
Lonegan says he was planning to move to this part of the state anyway but decided to settle in Lavallette because of the election opportunity.
 
Lonegan favors a flat income tax system and a repeal of President Barack Obama's health insurance overhaul. He got national attention as mayor when he tried to make English the official language of Bogota. He built a following statewide for helping derail a toll privatization plan and for leading successful campaigns against ballot measures to raise the state sales tax, fund stem-cell research and pay to preserve open space.

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He says MacArthur is not conservative enough because he wants to replace _ not repeal _ the health care law and doesn't believe it's wrong to have a progressive income tax structure.
 
"This is sort of like the liberal Republicans think they can run big government better than the other guys," he said last month.
 
MacArthur, a former mayor of Randolph in Morris County who ran an insurance company, said he wants a flatter income tax system with a smaller difference in tax rate between lower and higher earners and a health insurance system in which insurance companies fund an "insurer of last resort" for those who cannot get coverage otherwise.

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"Don't force government health care on 290 million so 30 million can get covered," he said.
 
MacArthur, who has put $2 million of his own money into the campaign, said he had been spending about half his time at his home in Barnegat Light, which is near but not in the 3rd District, and was planning to move to Ocean County permanently. MacArthur said that decision was speeded by Runyan's decision. He now lives in Toms River and said he maintains a home in Randolph so his daughter, a high school junior, can graduate there.
 
MacArthur said he initially tried to run a positive campaign but felt he had to defend himself against Lonegan's criticism.

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He's added plenty of his own, including blasting Lonegan for calling federal disaster aid "a taxpayer rip-off" and for lobbying against funding after Superstorm Sandy. Lonegan had said he supports storm victims but not the aid package, which he contended wouldn't help everyone affected by Sandy.
 
Last week, Lonegan tweeted a link to a story by the UK's The Daily Mail about legal settlements made by MacArthur's former company, York Risk Services Group, over underpayments for natural disaster claims. MacArthur's campaign manager said Lonegan was using the article "to destroy the Burlington and Ocean Republican parties for his own self-interest."

To the list of people who had high hopes for this past New Jersey winter — cross-country skiers, outdoor skaters, ice boat sailors — add the foresters trying to save New Jersey's Southern pine forest.

• Biting Cold Could Exterminate Southern Pine Beetle

They, like the rest of us, were hoping that the cold winter and heavy snowfall might have killed off the Southern pine beetles, not to mention the mosquitoes and stinkbugs that plague New Jerseyans and visitors in the summer.

But experts said it's unlikely the coldest winter in years will do much to change the balance of nature here.

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"You need consecutive days of minus 7 to 8 degrees" Fahrenheit to effectively kill off the larvae of Southern pine beetles that have already killed thousands of trees in the southern Pine Barrens, Ron Corkory told the Asbury Park Press. He's the southern pine beetle coordinator for the state Department of Environmental Protection.

As for mosquitoes, experts say we won't know until spring — although they warn that Sandy-dilapidated housing could prove a breeding ground for the aggressive Asian tiger mosquitoes. And stinkbugs are likely still hiding in people's homes, so the jury's out until spring on them as well.

Since it was identified in 2002, the northward-moving pine beetle has wrecked up to 14,000 acres of trees in a year, with recent years running between 6,000 to 8,000 acres annually. Most victims are loblolly and shagbark pine, close relatives to the trees of the Southeastern United States where the beetles started their feast.

At first glance, the Southern pine beetle is not very impressive. A brownish-black insect just 2 millimeters to 4 millimeters long, it's about as half as big as a rice grain and resembles a small fly when it's on the wing, foresters say.

But it's among a group of aggressive "bark beetle" species that bore into tree trunks, tunneling under the bark and cutting off the flow of moisture and nutrients through the cambium, the first layer of tissue under the bark. They leave trees riddled with holes and infected with a fungus that the beetles often carry. Disruption of the sapwood cuts off water flow inside the trees and can kill them in days.

"It depends on so many factors," Corkory said. "We're never going to eradicate them."

The strategy is to hold the pests south of the Mullica River in Burlington and Atlantic counties, to prevent a breakout into the vast public forests and suburban woodlands of Ocean County.

Mosquitoes operate almost entirely on spring conditions no matter what winter brings. The North Slope of Alaska is one of the worst places in the world for mosquitoes. Not to be outdone, their New Jersey cousins fared pretty well through this winter.

"These species are adapted to these conditions," said Michael Romanowski, superintendent of the Ocean County Mosquito Extermination Commission. In their early-season surveys of wooded wetlands where freshwater mosquitoes breed, early April water temperatures were 36 to 38 degrees Fahrenheit — the temperature of a kitchen refrigerator — "and believe it or not we found mosquito larvae," Romanowski said.

It takes warmer weather for them to grow — brief winter excursions of warm temperatures brought woodland pools up to the 50s in February before plunging back to the 30s, Romanowski said.

Now much will depend on what spring brings in rainfall and temperatures. Commission workers are out in three trucks and two helicopters doing their early surveillance and treating water to prevent big hatches.

But the big questions lie not in the woods but waterside neighborhoods still lying wrecked by Sandy. Unoccupied houses with debris still in their yards, and the ubiquitous blue plastic tarps to cover leaks, can hold water for breeding mosquitoes, especially the invading Asian tiger mosquito.

"The Asian tiger is a whole different thing. They're breeding in container situations around people's houses. A little bottle cap under a shrub can provide habitat for them," Romanowski said.

Instead of massive spraying programs, public health officials see "the best offense is a good defense" against Asian tiger mosquitoes, Romanowski said. His office offers a "yard audit" service to Ocean County residents, sending out workers to find mosquito breeding spots and telling residents how to prevent them.

Fruit farmers and homeowners throughout the mid-Atlantic had been hoping for a winter to kill off stinkbugs, a noxious invader that likes to take cold weather refuge in human habitation — and emit offensive squirts when the owners disturb them.

"The jury's still out. Many of them are inside yet, in barns and sheds and people's homes," said William Sciarappa, the agricultural agent for Monmouth County with the Rutgers University Cooperative Extension Service.

Rutgers advisers counsel farmers on using a system called integrated pest management, or IPM, to reduce the use of chemical pesticides and more biological controls, like other insects that feed on agricultural pests. Some of that has gone out the window because stinkbugs got so bad, he said.

"The last year or two we've had a reduction in numbers. I suspect it's because the farmers sprayed like crazy," Sciarappa said. "It's kind of messed up our IPM program." But there are some signs that natural predators, like some birds and predatory wasps, may be developing a taste for stinkbugs, he said: "Hopefully the biological controls will kick in."

"We haven't had this hard of a winter for a decade," Sciarappa said.

In the wake of a historic deluge of rain this week, an Old City gallery is remembering another storm from four years ago, which toppled dozens of historic trees in Bartram's Garden, America's oldest botanical garden in Southwest Philadelphia.

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In June 2010 a freakishly powerful windstorm swept through the garden, lasting just twenty minutes but damaging or destroying 65 trees.  Some had been standing for more than 200 years.

"This is the stump to a large, 40 to 50 foot cucumber magnolia that had toppled completely," said the head gardener at Bartram's Garden, Todd Greenberg, while patting the six-foot stump, about 36 inches around, at the southern edge of the historic garden. When he started chainsawing the fallen trunk for removal — about 700 board-feet — woodworkers came well, out of the woodwork.

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"They were excited to salvage wood from the cucumber magnolia," said Greenberg. "It's a softer grain, a lighter color. It's ideal for woodworking."

It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good: The Center for Art in Wood is now exhibiting wooden sculptures that grew out of the destruction.

The fine-art gallery in Old City approached Bartram's Garden to contribute material to a juried submission process. Forty artists made 36 wooden sculptures inspired by John Bartram, the 18th-century botanist who created Batram's Garden.

The show, "Batram's Boxes Remix," started as poetic interpretations of the boxes which Bartram made to ship seeds and seedlings around the world. Woodturning artist Dewey Garret made seed boxes out from intricately carved boxwood salvaged from the garden. The Japanese artist Satoshi Fujinuma made a tower of flat boxes, like stacked bento boxes, containing imaginative, fictional seed pods hand-carved by the artist.

Local artist Zachary Webber and Benjamin Neiditz made a box of animatronic plants. Wrenching the electronic mechanisms from inside toys such as a singing mounted fish and a dancing Homer Simpson, the West Philadelphia duo built a box full of carnivorous plants, a la Venus Flytrap, called "Aphrodite's Mousetrap."

"There are motion sensors hidden in the room," said Webber about the piece, one of two installed inside Bartram's Garden historic barn. "When you enter the room, there's a delay. When you get close to the box these monsters wriggle around, and hopefully surprise people."

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Most of the artists went far outside the box. Leah Woods made a wall sculpture of butternut and cherry wood carved into interlocking petals that trace John Bartram's influence across the eastern United States and Europe.

John Bartram worked locally in Southwest Philadelphia, but corresponded globally, sending and receiving plant samples from around the world. Several artists chose to collaborate together, mimicking Bartram's relationship with a global network of botany enthusiasts. Dixie Biggs and Ray Jones collaborated on a luxuriously carved seed box of boxwood and cherry, with tromp l'oeil carvings of seed pods inside.

"John collaborated with people in Europe in sharing these seeds," said Albert LeCoff, executive director of the Center for Art in Wood. "So, these artist shared ideas to create these objects, which they could not have done themselves."

Not all of the objects on display used wood salvaged from Batram's Garden, but rather took inspiration from Batram's life and work.

All of the wood from the fallen historic trees has been distributed to woodworkers, or used for on-site building projects. Some of that wood has come back to the garden as art objects for auction, or furniture. Some of the cucumber magnolia tree was used as graft cuttings to regenerate itself. Greenberg says there are four or five saplings at nearby Morris Arboretum that maintain the grand tree's original DNA.

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"When something falls down there are many opportunists," said Greenberg, looking at new foliage taking room inside the magnolia tree stump. "In a garden like this we are the opportunists — we take advantage of newly opened up areas of the landscape to replant and grow something different."

This story is reported through a newsgathering partnership between NBC10.com and NewsWorks.org.
 

Five local colleges are among the 55 being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for possible violations of federal law over the handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints.

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The local schools are Princeton University, Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania State University, Swarthmore College and Temple University.

The Dept. of Education is calling this list the "first comprehensive look" at which campuses are under review for violations concerning sexual violence. Read more about this story on PBJ.com.

For more breaking business news go to PBJ.com.
 

Police are asking for the public's help locating a missing South Jersey teen.

Sixteen-year-old Zebedee Matthews was reported missing Friday from his home on the 600 block of Benson Street in Camden, according to police.

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Authorities describe Matthews as 5-feet 6 1/2-inches tall, weighing 115 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair.

Police say he was last seen wearing a white and gray hoodie, blue jeans and white sneakers.

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Matthews, who has been reported missing six other times, is known to frequent Fairview Leonard Avenue in East Camden, according to officials.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call the Camden County Police Department at 856-757-742.

Police say five people are in the hospital after five shootings in Philadelphia on Saturday.

The first shooting took place outside a barbershop on the 3400 block of Germantown Avenue. Investigators say a 32-year-old man was inside when two other men began to argue outside the shop.

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One of the men allegedly pulled out a gun and opened fire, striking the 32-year-old man in the right hand.

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The victim walked to Temple University Hospital. He is currently in stable condition.

Police say a second shooting occurred on the 4900 block of Frankford Avenue. A 31-year-old man was struck multiple times after an unidentified gunman opened fire.

The victim walked to Frankford Hospital. Since his arrival, police say the man has been “uncooperative.” He is currently in critical condition.

A third shooting occurred shortly after 9 p.m. in the Kensington section of the city. Police say an 18-year-old man was shot twice in the leg by an unidentified gunman on the 2900 block of Boudinot Street. The teen is currently in stable condition.

Investigators say another victim was struck in a fourth shooting on the 2500 block of North Reese Street. The victim was taken to Temple University Hospital. His or her condition has not yet been revealed.

Finally, police say, a 29-year-old man was struck once in the back around 9:20 p.m. on the 2600 block of North 12th Street. The victim was taken to Temple where he is currently in critical condition.

No arrests have been made in any of the shootings.

If you have information on any of the incidents, please call Philadelphia Police.

A man accused of shooting three people, including a star basketball player, surrendered to police on Saturday, according to officials.

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On Saturday, around 3 p.m., police announced that 20-year-old James Cole turned himself in.

Investigators say Cole was the gunman who opened fire back on April 23 on the 2500 block of W. Thompson Street in the Brewerytown section of the city.

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Cole allegedly pulled up in a black vehicle and fired shots, striking 19-year-old Devin Bullock and two 22-year-old men.

According to police, Cole had been in an intense argument with one of the 22-year-old victims two days prior to the shooting.

While Bullock was not the intended target, investigators say he suffered the worst injuries in the shooting. Bullock was struck in the right thigh and groin. One of his legs was amputated and he is currently in a coma. The other two victims are stable.

After a warrant was issued for his arrest, Cole turned himself in on Saturday, according to police. He is charged with three counts of attempted murder and other related offenses.

Bullock is a Senior at New Media Technology school and has several college scholarships for basketball, according to his family.

"They took his heart," said his sister, Crystal Evans, while in tears. "He loves basketball. He worked so hard, he was so dedicated. Dedicated to being a man. Dedicated to being a leader and being an example. They took that from him."

Teachers and students have organized a drive to help Bullock and his family with medical expenses. You can visit DevintheMarvel.com to donate money for his recovery.

The school will also hold a fundraiser for Bullock on May 27 at 209 Leedom Street in Jenkintown, Pa. from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

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A high-ranking Delaware official was arrested on Friday after he allegedly raped a teenager he met through a popular dating app.

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Daniel Simmons, 34, of Wilmington, Delaware Is accused of raping a 16-year-old. Simmons is a Deputy Attorney General at Delaware’s Department of Justice.

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Investigators believe Simmons met the teen victim via the popular gay dating and hookup app “Grindr.” Police have not yet revealed the other circumstances that led to the alleged rape in order to protect the victim’s identity.

Simmons was arrested and charged with four counts of rape in the fourth degree. His bail information has not yet been made available.

Investigators are urging any other alleged victims of Simmons to come forward and contact the New Castle County Police Department at 302-395-8110.
 

Police are on the hunt for a man who was caught on camera exposing himself and masturbating on a crowded SEPTA bus.

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A Temple University PHD student, who did not want to be identified, told police she was sitting on a SEPTA Route 23 bus on Friday when the man sitting next to her began to masturbate in front of her. The woman then she says she took out her phone and recorded the man in the act.

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“You know this is on video right?” the woman asks. “You really wanna do that? I have it on my phone.”

In the video, the man continues to expose himself, ignoring the woman’s questions.

“Are you crazy?!” she then asks. “Do you see how many people are on this bus? Do you see a child behind you?! You are disgusting!”

The video then shows the man turning towards the woman.

“Are you serious right now?!” he asks. “I’m standing here the whole time! Why wouldn’t you just say something?”

“Does someone need to tell you not to touch yourself in public on a bus?” the woman replies.

The video then shows the man leaving the bus as more people confront him.

Both the woman and the bus driver later notified police. The woman was also interviewed by officials with the Special Victims Unit who are handling the investigation.

The video quickly went viral after it was shared on the People of SEPTA Facebook page.

Joanna Logan, a passenger on the Route 23 bus, was shocked when she watched the video.

"Shocked, surprised and disgusted," Logan said.

Logan, who has a daughter, says she's most concerned about the fact that a young girl was sitting behind the man.

"It's just a repulsive idea all together," said Charles Brown, a Temple University student. "I don't understand why someone would do something like that." 

Police continue to investigate. No arrests have been made. If you have any information on the man's identity, please call Philadelphia Police.

The SEPTA Route 23 bus runs from Chestnut Hill to South Philadelphia. It is currently the longest bus route in the city.
 

Philadelphia Police announce a missing 7-year-old child was located shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday morning.

Braheem Amaker was found "in good condition and will be reunited with his family," according to Christine O'Brien of the Philadelphia Police Department. Further details were not made available.

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Amaker was playing outside at 54th and Vine Streets Saturday night and he went missing not long after. He went inside a relative's home with his mother just after 9 p.m. His mother went into the bathroom. When she came out, she began looking for him. A child witness said he saw Amaker walk down the street. 

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Amaker is 3-feet tall, 50 pounds with light brown skin and short curly hair. He was wearing jeans, a blue, green and white plaid shirt, and white and blue sneakers at the time he went missing.

With more than 300 portable toilets located at the start of the Broad Street Run, officials were well equipped to handle the 40,000 runners participating in the 35th Annual Broad Street Run Sunday.

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The start of the 10-mile run began promptly at 8:30 a.m. at Broad Street and W. Fisher Avenue. The neighborhood course took runners down Broad Street from the Logan section of the city to South Philadelphia. Runner's World magazine named it one of the fastest 10-milers in the country. The first runner crossed the Philadelphia Navy Yard finish line unofficially at 47 minutes and 7 seconds.

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The winner, Mourad Marofit of Morocco, said he was "happy" after crossing the finish line and likes the people of Philadelphia and the competition.

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A strict gear check was in effect. Backpacks were not allowed, rather only clear plastic bags were permitted. SEPTA offered free service for runners wearing a bib. Runner donations and pledges support the American Cancer Society.

Official results have not yet been posted. Check back for more information.

Three people have been arrested following a deadly stabbing overnight.

The stabbing took place at the corner of G Street and Allegheny Avenue shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday morning. A 31-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.

The names of those arrested have not yet been released by the Philadelphia Police department.

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The Coast Guard came to the aid of a diver who became distressed in waters off southern New Jersey.

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The 50-year-old man was diving off a research boat Saturday afternoon when he was started having symptoms of decompression sickness. At the time, the boat was about 23 miles off the coast of Cape May.

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A person aboard the boat notified watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay in Philadelphia around 4:45 p.m., and a medium 45-foot response boat from Coast Guard Station Cape May soon arrived on scene.

The diver, whose name was not released, was responsive while being transferred to the Coast Guard boat and taken back shore. He was being treated at a hospital, but further details on his condition were not disclosed.
 

A maintenance worker is in the hospital after he fell nearly 30-feet while working on a carnival ride.

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Officials say the 33-year-old man was on top of scaffolding while working on a ride at the Voorhees Town Center in Voorhees Township, New Jersey on Sunday.

Suddenly the man slipped and fell approximately 30-feet.

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The man, who has not yet been identified, was conscious after the fall. He was taken to the Cooper Medical Center. Officials have not yet revealed his condition.
 

A Philadelphia police officer was arrested after she allegedly struck several vehicles with her car and then fled the scene while she was under the influence.

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Law enforcement sources told NBC10 that June Nowell, an 18th District Police officer, struck several parked cars early Friday morning in Northeast Philadelphia. Nowell then allegedly fled the scene in her vehicle.

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Sources say a witness directed responding officers towards Nowell and she was arrested a short time later.

Nowell was off-duty and was not using a police vehicle at the time of the crash, according to sources. Sources also say she was charged with DUI.

Philadelphia Police confirmed that an officer was arrested for DUI though they did not confirm whether or not it was Nowell.

“The officer has been taken off the street and relieved of police powers pending the outcome of the case,” said Philadelphia Police Lieutenant John Stanford. “There were no injuries involved in this incident.”

This story is developing. Stay with NBC10.com for updates.
 

In the aftermath of several accidents, city officials are taking the steps to protect pedestrians on Roosevelt Boulevard.

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The Philadelphia Streets Department announced the construction of a new signalized pedestrian crossing at Roosevelt Boulevard near 2nd Street.

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Beginning Monday, lane closures on the Boulevard between 3rd Street and Mascher Street will be in effect between 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily until June 27 for construction.

Officials say notices will be posted in advance of each closure and officers will be on site to direct drivers around the area. Motorists are urged to plan ahead and use alternate routes when traveling in the area.

The construction project, performed by Seravalli, Inc., will be funded by the Pennsylvania Commonwealth’s “Automatic Red Light Enforcement” (ARLE) program. The new crosswalk is set to open on June 27.

Over the past few years, several accidents along the Boulevard have brought national attention to the issue of pedestrian and driver safety along the 12-lane highway.

One of those accidents claimed the life of 28-year-old Samara Banks along with three of her four children.

Her 5-year-old son Saa-yon Griffin was the lone survivor.

"Riding by there is hard for him," said Latanya Byrd, Saa-yon's aunt. "But we go to therapy. He does great in therapy." 

The new pedestrian bridge will be built in the same spot where Saa-yon's family was killed.

"When I found out, chills just went through my body," Byrd said. "I just felt like something good is coming out of something bad."

Saa'yon's family told NBC10 the boy had not picked up a picture of his mom and brothers since the accident. After hearing about the bridge however, he reached for one and placed it in his lap.

"This is a great thing," Byrd said. "I'm so happy because it's gonna save some lives."