Several lane closures are in effect this week on I-295 in Bellmawr, Mt. Ephraim and Gloucester City in Camden County, New Jersey due to a milling and pavement project. The following closures will take place at the following locations and times.

Monday 8 p.m. – Tuesday 5 a.m.

• NJDOT will be closing I-295 northbound left lane and Exit 26 to Route 42 northbound/I-76 westbound.
• Route 42 northbound will have two lanes closed from just south of the Creek Road overpass to Klemm Avenue
• Route 42 southbound left lane will be closed from m Browning Road to just past Creek Road
• Two lanes will be closed on I-295 northbound for a quarter mile near Exit 25/Route 47. One lane will be maintained during the work.

Tuesday 8 p.m.-Wednesday 5 a.m.

• Route 42 northbound will have the two right lanes closed from about Creek Road to Klemm Avenue. Motorists on Route 42 northbound/I-76 westbound will be unable to access Exit 1C (Market Street) or Exit 1D (Route 130 northbound).
• Motorists on Route 42 northbound/I-76 westbound will be directed to stay right and take the I-676 split (Exit 2) to Collings Road (Exit 1) westbound. From there motorists take I-76 eastbound to Exit 1C (Route 130 southbound) to the Market Street Exit to Route 130 northbound.
• Motorists on I-295 northbound will be directed to take Exit 28/Route 168 Blackhorse Pike to I-295 southbound to Exit 26/I-76 westbound.

Wednesday 8 p.m.-Friday 5 a.m.

• Route 42 northbound will have the right lanes closed and the I-76 westbound Exit 1C (Market Street) and Exit 1D (Route 130 northbound) will be closed.
• Motorists on Route 42 northbound/I-76 westbound will be directed to stay right and take the I-676 split (Exit 2) to Collings Road (Exit 1) westbound. From there motorists take I-76 eastbound to Exit 1C (Route 130 southbound) to the Market Street Exit to Route 130 northbound.
• Route 295 southbound Exit 26 to I-76 westbound also will be closed for those three nights with a signed detour. Motorists will be directed to Exit 25A (Delsea Drive) to I-295 northbound to Route 42 northbound/I-76 westbound.

Electronic message signs will be used to notify motorists of the lane closures and detours. Motorists can check www.511nj.org for real-time travel information.
 

Several children were injured after a school bus and car collided in South Philadelphia.

The bus was taking students home from the Al-Aqsa Islamic Academy Monday afternoon when it collided with a car at 15th and Passyunk streets.

Eight children were hurt in the crash. They were taken to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and treated for minor injuries.

Officials continue to investigate the accident.

Officials are investigating a fire that destroyed a rabbi’s SUV that was parked outside an Atlantic City Synagogue on Rosh Hashanah.

Rabbi David Kushner of the Rodef Sholom Synagogue tells NBC10 he parked his Ford Explorer in the temple’s parking lot Wednesday and left it there as he walked home. Around 2 a.m. Thursday, firefighters were called to the scene after the vehicle somehow caught fire.

Kushner volunteers at the Hatzolah EMS in Monmouth County. The fire destroyed his SUV as well as his EMT equipment inside. The flames also caused minor damage to the synagogue.

Kushner told NBC10 he believes the fire was set intentionally.

“It’s hurtful but it’s not anger,” Kushner said. “It’s more of a sadness that this is a reality in our time. I think it behooves all of us to be aware that these types of actions happen in the world and to be vigilant in order to prevent it.”

Several Holocaust survivors and their families attend Rodef Sholom. While police have not determined a cause of the fire, they tell NBC10 they’re not ruling out the possibility that the blaze was a hate crime and intentionally set. 

“The high holidays are a time of introspection and looking at the past and looking forward into the future,” Rabbi Kushner said. “To have an incident like this puts a real damper on the holiday.”

With Yom Kippur beginning Friday night, police plan on increasing patrols around the Synagogue. Synagogue leaders also tell NBC10 they’re in the process of hiring their own private security.

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A Camden man was killed Monday night after he was shot in the face inside a home.

Police were called to a home on the 1200 block of Thurman Street. When they arrived they found a man inside the home suffering a gunshot wound to the face. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Officials have not yet revealed the victim’s identity or a description of any suspects.

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

A woman was hurt after her car slammed into a gas station in the Port Richmond section of the city.

The unidentified woman was driving on Castor Avenue and Richmond Street Monday night when she somehow lost control of her vehicle. The car slammed into a Sunoco Gas Station and knocked a gas pump off its base.

Officials say nothing caught fire in spite of the collision. The woman was taken to a local hospital. Officials have not yet revealed her condition or the cause of the crash.

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

Philadelphia Police are searching for a suspect in a fatal shooting outside a Popeye’s Chicken restaurant who may have also killed the pregnant girlfriend of his alleged accomplice.

Markese Martin, 25, of the 1700 block of W Godfrey Avenue is wanted for the shooting death of 42-year-old Kenneth Woods. On September 23 around 4 p.m., Woods was shot in the chest in the parking lot of the Popeye’s Chicken on the 4200 block of Broad Street.

Woods was taken to Temple Hospital by an unidentified civilian and was pronounced dead at 5:37 p.m.

On Friday, homicide investigators issued a warrant for Martin for the shooting death of Woods. Police also arrested 20-year-old Megan Jones of Blue Bell, Pa. as well as 26-year-old Kord Rozier of the 1300 block of E. Price Street in connection to the shooting. Both Jones and Rozier are charged with murder and other related offenses.

Markese Martin is also considered a person of interest in the murder of Rozier’s pregnant girlfriend Jasmine Williams. On September 24, Williams, 25 and Rozier were on the 1600 block of W Nedro Street when a gunman opened fire. Williams was struck several times. She was taken to Einstein Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 1:03 a.m.

Williams was 8-months-pregnant with Rozier's child at the time of the shooting. Doctors delivered her baby girl but the infant was pronounced dead at 2:16 a.m. Rozier was also struck in the shooting but survived after treatment at Temple University Hospital.

Family members told NBC10 Rozier planned to surrender in connection to the Popeye’s shooting prior to his girlfriend’s death. They believe Rozier was specifically targeted once his alleged accomplice found out he was going to turn himself in to authorities and that Williams was an innocent bystander.

Martin is considered armed and dangerous. If you have any information on his whereabouts, please call the Homicide Fugitive Squad at 215-686-3068, 215-686-3334 or call 911.
 

A Philadelphia Police officer is on desk-duty after he allegedly assaulted his female partner and lover during an argument, according to NBC10 sources.

Lieutenant John Stanford told NBC10 the two unidentified 18th district officers got into an argument Friday near police headquarters while they were both on-duty and in uniform. The argument ultimately escalated into a fight. 

Sources tell NBC10 the two officers were having an affair and the alleged assault is being investigated as a possible domestic dispute.

According to investigators, the female officer, who has worked in the department for nearly 20 years, suffered facial injuries, including fractures and bruising, and was treated at a local hospital. They have not yet revealed her condition.

The male officer is currently on desk duty and his gun was confiscated pending the outcome of the investigation. Officials with Internal Affairs are handling the case.

"Anytime you have a situation like this it's something very serious," Stanford said. "The department looks at it in a very serious way. It's not going to be something taken lightly. Necessary action will be taken once a thorough investigation is completed." 
 

Prisoner, former death row inmate, author and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal will give the commencement speech at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.

The college announced Monday that Abu-Jamal, who received his Bachelor of Arts from Goddard in 1996, was selected by the Fall 2014 graduating class.

Abu-Jamal, 60, was sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of Officer Daniel Faulkner. Prosecutors later agreed to a life term after a federal appeals court ordered a new sentencing hearing, citing flawed jury instructions.

Since his arrest, Abu-Jamal has gained supporters worldwide who claim he is innocent of the crime and the victim of a racist legal system. Many opponents however, including Faulkner's widow and Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, maintain that Abu-Jamal was Faulkner's killer.

Abu-Jamal currently resides at the Mahanoy State Correctional Institution in Frackville, Pa. after he was transferred there from death row in 2012.

Officials at Goddard College say his commencement remarks were prerecorded and will be played along a short video from filmmaker Stephen Vittoria. Vittoria released a documentary on Abu-Jamal titled “Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal” in 2012.

“As a reflection of Goddard’s individualized and transformational educational model, our commencements are intimate affairs where each student serves as her or his own valedictorian, and each class chooses its own speaker,” said Goddard College Interim President Bob Kenny. “Choosing Mumia as their commencement speaker, to me, shows how this newest group of Goddard graduates expresses their freedom to engage and think radically and critically in a world that often sets up barriers to do just that.”

The commencement ceremony will take place October 5 at the Haybarn Theatre at Goddard College at 123 Pitkin Road in Plainfield, Vermont starting at 4 p.m. 

Goddard College is a liberal arts college with locations in Plainfield Vermont, Port Townsend Washington and Seattle, Washington.

President Barack Obama has assured Americans he opposes sending U.S. ground troops to crush Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria — well aware the country is not ready to return to the battlefield with its war wounded still recovering from a decade of conflict.

But airmen have been sent back into combat in the region with the focus on airstrikes, divided between fighter pilots and drone operators.

While drone operators are not physically in harm's way — they do their work at computer terminals in darkened rooms far from the actual battlefield — growing research is finding they too can suffer some of the emotional strains of war that ground forces face.

"It can be as impactful for these guys as someone in a foxhole," said Air Force spokesman Tom Kimball.

AIR WARFARE

In a rare partnership, U.S. and Arab allies last week launched a military air assault against Islamic State strongholds in Syria. Americans have also been conducting airstrikes in Iraq since August. Both assaults have incorporated the use of unmanned aircraft, according to Air Force officials.

Administration officials said the U.S. on its own also bombed targets of an al-Qaida cell in Syria because intelligence showed that the Khorasan Group was in the final stages of plotting attacks against the U.S. and Europe.

The broadened campaign includes a dozen teams of U.S. military advisers embedding with Iraqi commanders in the field at the brigade level or above, and at least 125 U.S. military personnel flying and maintaining Iraq-based U.S. surveillance aircraft to collect targeting information for Iraqi troops.

The Air Force, citing security reasons, would not disclose where the drone crews in the air campaign are working. Currently the Air Force has 356 pilots flying the Predator and 359 flying the Reaper.

DRONE OPERATIONS IN RECENT WARS

The Bush and Obama administrations have both used the 2001 authorization of force against al-Qaida to justify drone strikes against terror targets in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, drone operators pulled long shifts at U.S. bases, watching full-motion video across multiple screens. Some would follow the daily life of locals for months to assess threats before an airstrike was ordered.

Then they might analyze the carnage and damage from bombings before driving home to eat dinner with their families and maybe play soccer with their children — a jarring shift that may contribute to stress, mental health experts say.

TRAUMA FROM WATCHING BLOODSHED

Brandon Bryant manned the cameras for pilots at Air Force bases in Nevada and New Mexico for about five years.

He said he still suffers from insomnia, depression and nightmares three years after he participated in his last mission. He witnessed the direct killing of 13 people, and his squadron was credited with killing 1,626 enemies.

"I would go to sleep and dream about work, the mission, and continuously see the people I'd watched on the screen earlier now in my own head repeatedly being killed," he said, adding that he felt alone and that no one wanted to talk about it.

Bryant, 28, said he has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder by the Veterans Administration.

He said the military's drone community has shunned him for speaking out.

WHAT IS KNOWN

In the first study of its kind, the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center found the amount of behavioral issues, such as anxiety, depression and PTSD, affecting drone pilots was comparable to that of traditional pilots.

Researchers analyzed the health records of 709 drone pilots and 5,256 traditional pilots from 2003 to 2011. The study was published last year. The study's author Dr. Jean L. Otto said the message was that "just because service members are not physically deployed to a war zone doesn't mean there is less of a mental health risk."

MORAL INJURY

Watching explosions, which sometimes include civilian casualties, may produce "moral injuries" — a psychological wound from witnessing something that goes against a person's beliefs or moral code that is gaining recognition by the military.

"Pilots of manned aircraft come in, drop bombs and go back and someone else does the damage assessment," said Nancy Cooke, an Arizona State University professor who looks at technology's impact on psychology.

"Drone operators actually see the results of what they've done," she said. "So when people say this is just a video game, nothing could be further from the truth for them. They see the body parts."

And operators have few chances to talk about their experience because they are limited for security reasons.

HOW IS MILITARY RESPONDING

Last year, the Air Force started assigning chaplains and psychologists to its drone units. Leaders have tried to improve shifts to ease fatigue, while doctors are developing ways to treat moral injury, which also affects those on the battlefield.

Army Lt. Col. Douglas Pryer, who has written about moral injury, said in an email that as warfare becomes increasingly remote-controlled, the risk of psychological wounds among drone operators will grow.

Technological advances mean operators soon may see the faces of their targets and that could put them at as much risk for moral injury as infantrymen "fighting in hand-to-hand combat and seeing up close and personal the agony of those they killed," he said.

"Americans tend to see drones as a means toward an ideal — harming the enemy without being harmed," he said. "This ideal is actually impossible to achieve." 

Two days after a University of Pennsylvania student died inside her off-campus apartment, homicide investigators awaited autopsy results to determine exactly how she died.

Penn sophomore Amanda Hu died inside her bedroom in a shared row home on the 4000 block of Sansom Street in University City late Sunday night, according to Philadelphia Police.

Investigators found blood splatter on the wall and Hu -- a 20-year-old College of Arts and Science student from the suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina -- appeared to be bleeding from her mouth, police said. Some prescription medications were also found at the scene.

The death appeared to be a suicide since a note was left. As of Tuesday, investigators continued to treat the case as a sudden death since the exact cause of death would be determined by the city medical examiner's office. A spokesman for the coroner's office referred all inquiries back to Philadelphia Police Tuesday.

Campus and Philadelphia police officers spent the early hours of Monday going in and out of the off-campus home that Hu shared with five other women.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that roommates heard yelling and banging coming from Hu's room shortly before her death. Investigators told NBC10 It wasn't clear who made any sounds at the home. There were no signs of forced entry into the room, city police said.

The exact cause of death could take a while to determine due to toxicology tests, police said.

Hu took a voluntary leave of absence this semester and was working in a biochemistry lab, according to the university. She was involved in a series of on-campus groups including Model Congress, Penn for Youth Debate and Penn Science Across Ages.

“Ongoing University resources are available to students in need of information, assistance and support,” said Penn media relations director Ron Ozio.

Ozio said that the university chaplain held a private event Monday night described as a "community gathering for sharing and support," which the Daily Pennsylvanian reported was attended by more than 40 people.

Hu's death is the latest possible suicide involving a University of Pennsylvania student -- late last school year the UPenn community came together for a rally to raise awareness of mental health issues with college students. The university also expanded its counseling center outreach and expanded counseling hours, according to Ozio.

SUICIDE PREVENTION: If you know someone who needs help, you can contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by calling 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

A man tried to run over an off-duty police officer with his own truck, leading the officer to shoot the suspect -- and administer CPR -- on a South Jersey street early Tuesday morning.

After finishing his shift at 3 a.m., Delanco Township Police Officer Basil Warren returned to his Stevenson Avenue home in Edgewater Park, Burlington County to find a man trying to steal his personal vehicle, according to investigators.

As Warren -- still in full uniform -- approached his truck, the suspect, identified as 26-year-old Tysean Fitzpatrick, threw the vehicle into reverse and tried to back over him, according to Peter Alfinito, Burlington County Fraternal Order of Police president.

The Delanco officer "fired in self defense," hitting the Fitzpatrick twice in the back, Alfinito said. When responding officers arrived at the scene, Warren was administering first aid to the injured suspect, according to officials.

The wounded man was transported to Cooper University Medical Center, where he underwent emergency surgery. He's listed in critical condition, police said.

Officer Warren was not injured, but hospital officials evaluated him as a precaution.

An investigation into the shooting is underway, Fitzpatrick hasn't been charged.

Warren is an 8-year veteran of the Delanco Police Department.

Stay with NBC10 for more on this developing story.

Medics performed CPR as they tried to save the life of a 2-year-old boy who shot himself in the head inside a Delaware townhouse Tuesday morning.

The child was found shot inside a unit along Cliffside Court in the Valley Run neighborhood of Claymont, New Castle County around 10 a.m., according to police.

Medics performed CPR on the boy, identified as AJ, at the scene before a medivac helicopter took AJ to AI Dupont-Neumors Children's Hospital where doctors listed the boy in critical condition.

AJ's parents rushed to the hospital to be by their son's side.

Police said it appeared the toddler -- who was home alone with his mother -- somehow got a hold of a gun and pulled the trigger.

"We're not sure the ownership of the gun," said police spokeswoman Tracey Duffy. "We're not sure how he located the weapon."

After the shooting the woman ran out of the home and screamed for someone to call an ambulance, said witnesses.

The investigation into the shooting included if the boy's parents owned the gun legally.

Tuesday night, the boy's brother Dorrell Walls, told NBC10 the child was doing better.

"He's in ICU right now so he's getting better," Walls said.

Investigators took evidence from the boy's home. Other officials went door to door in the neighborhood, conducting interviews in order to figure out what people saw or heard.

"He's a happy go lucky kid and very bright," said the boy's neighbor Bill Jennings. "He always speaks. I feel very sorry for him." 

The boy remains in critical condition. No charges have been filed as the investigation continues.

The 8-year-old daughter of a Newark, Delaware city councilman had multiple surgeries, including one to reattach her right arm, following an attack by the family's pet pit bull Saturday afternoon.

After spending several days fighting to recover from multiple dog bites that critically injured her Saturday, Emily Ruckle's first words to her family were, "I want to leave," according to the Facebook page of her mother, Maria McGuinness Ruckle.

Emily is one of McGuinness Ruckle's and husband, Todd Ruckle's four children. Her father was elected to his first-term as councilman in April 2014, according to the city's website.

"The doctor told us this was the worse dog [attack] she has ever seen and this is her specialty," McGuinness Ruckle wrote in a Facebook post Sunday.

The 8-year-old girl was at her Adelene Drive home with her 15-year-old sister around 1 p.m. Saturday when the family's pet pit bull viciously attacked the younger child, police said.

The aggressive dog initially prevented the siblings from leaving the room where the attack occurred, but the teenager was able eventually to carry her hurt sister past the pit bull, authorities said.

"She also helped control her sister's bleeding until help arrived," Police Sgt. Michael A. McColley, a spokesman for New Castle County EMS, told the NewarkPostOnline.Com.

The dog's behavior continued to prevent medics from treating Emily at the scene, which led Newark police to shoot and kill the pet, according to officials.

The critically injured child was airlifted Saturday to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where she is still recovering Tuesday.

When reached by phone, the councilman declined to comment on his daughter's condition.

"I'm just focusing on my daughter right now," he said.

A man with a shotgun took matter into his own hands to bring done a drone flying over one of his neighbor’s home, according to police along the Jersey Shore.

Lower Township Police said they received a call Friday around 5:30 p.m. from the drone’s owner who said he was flying the device over his friend’s home along the 1000 block of Seashore Drive in Lower Township, Cape May County to gather some aerial photographs of construction being done at the home when the drone suddenly went down.

Right before the man lost control of his drone he heard what sounded like several gunshot blasts, said investigators.

When he recovered the drone, the owner found several holes in the device, police said.

When police arrived, the victim pointed them in the direction of where he heard the blasts. Police then arrived at 32-year-old Russell Percenti’s home. At the home, officers found the shotgun “used to shoot down the drone,” police said.

Police didn’t say why Percenti -- a waiter at a local eatery -- allegedly pulled the trigger.

Percenti posted $250 in bail after being arraigned on criminal mischief and weapons charges.

Authorities evacuated the Atlantic Cape Community College's Mays Landing campus to investigate a bomb threat.

School officials sent a Tweet at 10:06 a.m. Tuesday morning alerting students the campus was being evacuated.

Atlantic Cape's Mays Landing Campus only is being evacuated due to bomb threat, Tues. Sept. 30. Check http://t.co/8Se0jVFLlF for updates.

— atlanticcape (@atlanticcape) September 30, 2014

After about four hours investigators gave the all clear and the college announced that classes would resume at 2 p.m.

No injuries were reported.

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A student driver lost control of her car and smashed into a Northeast Philadelphia apartment building Tuesday.

The unidentified driver struck another car and went up onto a lawn before slamming into a unit at the Canterbury Court Apartments just off the 9500 block of Academy Road in the city’s Morrell Park section around 11:45 a.m.

Medics took a woman to Aria-Torresdale Hospital with undisclosed injuries. Dispatchers couldn’t say if the injured woman was the student driver behind the wheel of the car.

The crash left a hole about the size of large trash can in the brick façade. The crash forced six people from their homes. No word yet if they were allowed to return.

Police continued to investigate Tuesday.

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New Jersey Congressman and former Philadelphia Eagle, Jon Runyan is selling his seven-year-old Mt. Laurel home for $5.8 million. The posh mansion, a custom-built 23-acre French chateau, was designed by renowned architects David Donachy and Christopher Caulder. The 13,148-square-foot dwelling contains 5 bedrooms, 8 ½ baths, an elevator along with several other amenities. The house is located at 263 Mt. Laurel Rd., Mount Laurel, NJ.

Runyan played for the Eagles as an offensive tackler and helped them reach the Super Bowl in 2004. He is known for his commitment on the field as well as his commitment to community service. The player has involved himself with several non-profits in the Philly-South Jersey are, including the Leukemia-Lymphoma Society, the American Red Cross, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.

In 2010, Runyan retired from the NFL and became New Jersey's third district congressman, beating Democrat John Adler. During his tenure in Washington, the congressman has served on several committees like the Armed Services Committee, the Veterans Affairs Committee, and the Natural Resources Committee.

Selling his house is not the only transition in Runyan's life. He is also stepping down from Congress and will not seek reelection. NJ.com reports that while he was honored to serve as a representative of New Jersey, he did not intend to make a career of politics. Spending time with his family is now his top priority.

Although Runyan is selling his Mt. Laurel mansion, his realtor Melissa Young said he plans to stay local, but hasn't decided which town or neighborhood his family will call home next.

A Pennsylvania State Trooper died Tuesday evening after he was accidentally shot at a Montgomery County gun range.

Trooper David Kedra, 26, of the Troop K, Skippack station was participating in a training exercise at the Montgomery County Public Safety Training Complex in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, around 4:45 p.m. when he was shot.

Officials have not yet revealed what led to the shooting but say a bullet pierced his chest. They also say the shooting was accidental.

A medical helicopter took the trooper from the scene to Temple University Hospital. He was later pronounced dead.

Kedra's body was placed into a hearse and escorted by a police motorcade to the coroner's office on South University Avenue.

Kedra had been a member of the Pennsylvania State Police since June 18, 2012.

"He died serving the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the men and women of the Pennsylvania State Police mourn his loss and extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends," state police officials said in a released statement.

Trooper Kedra is the 96th member of the Pennsylvania State Police to be killed in the line of duty.

Investigators say the shooting appears to be accidental.

The gun range at the training center is normally used by law enforcement and first responders.

This story is developing. Stay with us for updates.