A robber stabbed the owner of Northeast Philadelphia cash for gold store in the face Monday morning then made off with a large sum of cash.
The stabbing took place around 11:15 a.m. along Frankford Avenue near Welsh Road in the Holmesburg section of the city — outside the We Buy Gold store.
Medics took the 62-year-old stabbing victim to Aria Torresdale Hospital in stable condition.
After the stabbing, the suspect took off in a black GMC truck, said Philadelphia Police.
Police taped off an area outside the store -- the front glass of the store shattered onto the sidewalk.
The public is getting a chance to change the game of Monopoly.
Hasbro is hosting a contest as part of Monopoly's 80th anniversary, where you can vote on the city of your choice to be featured on the next version of the game, with the winner getting featured in the "Boardwalk" spot.
The contest ends Wednesday and the final list of cities will be announced on March 19th.
To vote, check out the link here.
Frigid temperatures are still upon us, and with them come cold and icy conditions that can wreak havoc on your car.
Even if your car is brand-new, there some basic precautions you should take, especially when it comes to washing off road salt and brine.
Once salt gets on your car, repairs and other problems can surface later in the year as salt corrosion is compounded by heat, according to Triple A.
And those repairs can be costly.
The Federal Highway Administration estimates the overall cost of car corrosion is approximately $32.47 billion per year, with $6.45 billion spent on necessary repairs and maintenance due to road salt and brine.
Rusting can also cause aesthetic damage to your vehicle such as exterior cracks and chipped paint.
Here are some tips from experts at AAA for keeping your car winter-ready and on a low salt diet:
Six months after the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge took the nation by storm, local ALS sufferers are benefiting from the money raised.
“Ice Bucket Challenge donations have enabled us to reinforce and re-energize our efforts to find treatments for this disease,” said Barbara J. Newhouse, President and CEO of The ALS Association.
According to a spokesperson for The ALS Association Greater Philadelphia Chapter, it has gained more than 5,200 new donors because of the challenge and spent more than $160,000 locally in new funding on direct ALS patient care needs.
The funding allowed the local chapter to purchase a new van to transport ALS patients as well as increase the hours of in-home care 20% to 12 hours a week, maximum, for local patients.
The Greater Philadelphia Chapter reported it increased spending for accessible ramping of homes by $25,000 and on medical equipment such as wheelchairs by $30,000.
Another $60,000 was spent on new Assistive Technology devices such as head mounted laser pointers, iPads and other communication devices for ALS patients.
The Greater Philadelphia Chapter serves over 850 people with Lou Gehrig's Disease in eastern Pennsylvania, central and southern New Jersey and Delaware.
Last summer, an estimated 15 million people in the U.S. participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge and donated $115 million to The ALS Association, according to The ALS Association.
A man was found dead outside a local strip club.
The body of a 34-year-old man was found in the back of Delilah’s Night Club on the 100 block of Spring Garden at 4:24 p.m. Monday.
Police have not yet revealed the man's identity or a cause of death.
This story is developing. Stay with NBC10.com for updates.
Firefighters are battling a four-alarm fire at a Montgomery County sheet metal plant after a report of an explosion.
The fire began at Trico Metal Products, a sheet metal fabricator business on the 2300 block of Wyandotte Road in Upper Moreland Monday around 5:20 p.m. after a reported explosion. SkyForce10 captured a part of the building collapse as the heavy flames continued.
The entire building as well as surrounding businesses were evacuated. No injuries have been reported so far. The plant is also located next to the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Traffic on the Turnpike has been backed up due to the fire. There are currently delays on Pa. Turnpike I-276 in all directions between Exit 339 - PA 309 and Exit 343 - PA 611.
"The Turnpike eastbound is running very slowly between Welsh Road and 611," said NBC10 Photo Journalist Jim Friedman, who is at the scene of the fire. "When I got off the 611 Interchange there were just cars everywhere. There are detours set up all over the place."
Several residents in the area also reported power outages.
This story is developing. Stay with NBC10.com for updates.
Police received a call asking them to respond to a car blocking the road. Inside they found a man slumped over the wheel.
The 38-year-old man's car had been blocking traffic for hours when police arrived around 12:35 a.m. Tuesday to the 2500 block of Arizona Street in North Philadelphia.
Neighbors reported the car was blocking the road since 8 p.m. Monday.
Police assumed they were responding to a “hospital case,” meaning the driver was passed out. They rushed him to Temple University Hospital where doctors performed a CT scan to determine the severity of the victim’s condition.
Doctors notified investigators that the man had been shot in the face. He remained in grave condition on a ventilator Tuesday morning.
Police returned to the scene to investigate the shooting but found no blood or shell casings.
They had no immediate leads, motives or suspects.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent destroyed his career over $750 after stealing the cash from several deportees, Philadelphia prosecutors said.
Justin Ford, 31, is accused of stealing money from aliens who were in the process of being deported from the country.
"What Mr. Ford did was deplorable," Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams said Tuesday while announcing the agent's arrest.
Authorities caught Ford after carrying out a sting operation involving an undercover Philadelphia Police officer. In the sting, prosecutors said Ford was asked to search the undercover officer and found $2,000 in cash. The marked cash was planted as part of the operation.
Williams said Ford pressed the undercover officer to tell him how much cash their was, but he simply pretended not to speak English.
When the undercover officer was turned over to a prison in York County, Pennsylvania, detectives found two $100 bills were missing, prosecutors said.
"Agent Ford was willing to throw away his career for $200," Williams said.
Philadelphia Police SWAT Officers arrested Ford on February 24. As he was taken into custody, the man "immediately began crying," according to Williams.
The agent later admitted to stealing a total of $750 from three deportees, officials said. Authorities said Ford was facing financial troubles. They were tipped off to his possible involvement after a detainee complained some of his money was missing.
There's no evidence any other agents were involved in the theft, authorities said.
Ford is charged with Theft by Unlawful Taking, Receiving Stolen Property, Official Oppression and Conspiracy. He's been released after posting $25,000 bail, prosecutors said.
An attorney was not listed for Ford. A phone number listed for him is no longer in service.
Williams called the case "unique" since the Department of Homeland Security came to local authorities to set up the sting and carry out the prosecution. He said it showcases the strong relationship the two agencies have been forging.
A little more than a year after then-13-year-old Jahi McMath was declared brain dead, the Oakland teen's family filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the hospital where she received surgery for her sleep apnea.
The 12-page lawsuit filed in Alameda County Superior Court alleges medical negligence. The suit alleges her doctor recommended risky surgery for the girl's sleep apnea despite the fact that "less drastic treatments" are usually tried first in pediatric cases, the family's new lawyer, Bruce Brusavich, claimed in a statement.
The suit claims that Jahi's nurses violated the standards of "competent performance" as set forth in the Nuse Practice Act.
And the suit also alleges that Jahi's parents, Latasha and Marvin Winkfield, became the target of an "aggressive campaign" by the hospital to persuade them to "terminate Jahi's life support and donate her organs, even as the hospital evaded the Winkfields’ questions about what happened to their daughter." At one point, the suit claims, David Duran, chief of pediatrics, "began slamming his fist on the table and said: "What is it you don't understand? She is dead, dead, dead, dead!"
In a statement emailed to NBC Bay Area on Tuesday, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland said: "Our hearts go out to the McMath family. We are not aware of any litigation filed by the McMath family, but it is our policy not to comment on any litigation that mightbe pending."
The Oakland Tribune first reported the story.
The family’s prior attorney, Chris Dolan, has repeatedly insisted he would not sue the hospital. Brusavich, a personal injury attorney in Torrance, is Dolan’s friend, the Tribune reported. Brusavich's suit asks for unspecified medical expenses and funds for "negligent infliction of emotional distress." California currently caps medical malpractice damages at $250,000.
Ivan Golde, a personal injury attorney in Oakland not associated with the case, told NBC Bay Area that there is a high standard the family must prove to win, showing that the doctor made a "gross mistake." But, Golde added, "the family is desperate."
Jahi went in for surgery in December 2013, and was pronounced brain dead three days afterward. Her family won a contentious court battle to move her to New Jersey despite doctors from Children's and Stanford University ruling that she was legally dead and should be taken off life support.
The family, who believes she is still alive and may one day recover, set up a fundraising website to help cover the expenses of her 24-7 care. As of Tuesday morning, about $63,000 had been donated.
In March 2014, her mother, Nailah Winkfield, told NBC Bay Area her daughter was improving, and described her as being asleep. On Feb. 17, Winkfield posted a Facebook picture of the two of them in bed together. The mother is seen kissing Jahi's head.
Among the allegations in the 12-page suit:
• Dr. Frederick Rosen, an ear, nose and throat surgeon, did not notify nurses of an abnormal artery in Jahi's throat, near the surgery site, that increased risk. Jahi ended up having an adenotonsillectomy, uvulopalatopharnygoplasty and submucous resection of her bilateral inferior turbinates. The suit claims that Rosen, considered an expert in his field, should have started with simply removing the tonsils and the adenoids first.
• One nurse, the suit claims, told family members to suction the blood, which they did for about an hour; another nurse later told them that doing so would remove blood clots vital to recovery.
Tha't's when Winkfield called her mother, Sandra Chatman, a longtime nurse at the Kaiser hospital in Oakland. Jahi's family said she bled from at least 7:30 p.m. until about 12:35 a.m. the next morning, when a doctor arrived, hours after the family first asked for one, and five minutes after Chatman, who was concerned about her dropping heart rate and the bleeding, asked for the code to be called.
"The defendants were negligent in every step of this tragedy," Brusavich said. "The result is that a 13-year-old girl will never lead a normal life."
NBC Bay Area's Bob Redell contributed to this report.
