A 35-year-old New Jersey man was fatally shot by state police after he drove a stolen Jeep toward them.
NJ.com reports that state troopers were investigating a stolen car just before 6 p.m. Tuesday in Union. When police tried to stop the black Jeep, it backed into a parked car and then accelerated toward a trooper.
Peter Aseltine, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office, says police opened fire on the Parlin man who was pronounced dead at a Newark hospital.
Authorities are holding off on identifying the man pending notification of his family.
Crews restored power to homes and businesses in a Main Line community Wednesday morning following an underground transformer blast Monday night.
Around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, PECO officials said lights were back on for the approximately 80 customers who lost power after an explosion occurred two days earlier on Wayne Avenue.
"It was a real explosion," Frank Nattle, owner of Vecchia Pizzeria, told NBC10 Monday. "Windows came flying in. Tables and chairs went flying. Lights came off the wall. I thought my one employee was, literally I didn't know if I was gonna look to see him dead there. I was afraid."
No one was injured during the incident. The outage forced several area businesses to close until power was restored.
A school bus rear ended a SEPTA bus in West Philadelphia during the Wednesday morning rush hour.
The crash, which involved a Route 31 bus, occurred at the intersection of Warren Street and Fairmount Avenue -- near 42nd Street -- around 8:15 a.m., according to officials.
Five passengers on the SEPTA bus iniitialy reported suffering injuries, although just two were taken to local hospitals for treatment, SEPTA officials said.
Four children, who were on the school bus, were also transported to a local hospital, transit officials tell NBC10.
All of the injuries are non-life threatening.
Stay with NBC10 for more on this developing story.
Surveillance video shows two masked men forcing a convenience store employee back into a Philadelphia convenience store then clearing the register. And, investigators said it wasn't the only time that morning the men struck.
The suspects, each wearing ski masks, entered the 7-Eleven store at 22nd and Lombard streets – near Fitler Square – around 4:30 a.m. on April 3.
The 46-year-old worker was carrying a box from the back of the store when the masked men entered the store – one of the men briefly revealing his face. A medium-built man in his 20s – wearing a navy blue zip-up hoodie with shoulder straps and a blue cap with a unique white emblem on it – blocked the employee’s path, said Philadelphia Police.
The other suspect – a thinner man in his 20s, wearing a maroon hoodie with “Nike” written on it and what appeared to be paint or spackle stains – then took a gun from the pocket of his hoodie and demanded money from the clerk, said police.
As the employee went behind the counter, a customer could be seen entering the store – seemingly unaware of the robbery in progress. In the video, the man in all blue seems to briefly go toward the customer but then turns back to guard the door as the worker puts the cash drawer on the counter.
The man in red then grabbed the cash and the two men fled the store.
About 45 minutes before the 7-Eleven heist, police said the same men held up the Citgo gas station at E Susquehanna and E Girard avenues in the city's Fishtown neighborhood. In that robbery, the man in the Nike sweatshirt showed his gun and took cash from the register while his accomplice swiped a pack of cigarettes from behind the counter, said investigators.
If you recognize the suspects or have information about the heists, contact Philadelphia Police South Detectives at 215-686-3013/14 and ask for Detective Duffy. If you see the men, call 911 immediately, said police.
The number of solar panel installations in New Jersey may have hit the 34 thousand mark based on state Board of Public Utilities figures.
As of mid-February there were 33,927 business and home solar arrays across the Garden State, but companies such as Vivint, NRG and SolarCity have been installing systems on a daily basis as their popularity has exploded with the help of a thirty percent federal tax credit.
"I saw everybody else getting it so I figured something must be good about it," Sayreville homeowner John Kaba told News4NewYork about his decision to go solar.
In Sayreville, more than three hundred homes have solar on their rooftops, this in a mixed blue collar and middle class community.
And while many people say they made the decision because of concerns over global warming, NRG spokesman Erik Linden said most people do it to save money.
Barry Waldman got a lease deal from NRG this past winter for his Sayreville home, and said he was told he should see savings of about twenty percent over the course of a year.
"I'm going to retire soon so I wanted a fixed cost where it's gonna be the same amount of obey practically every month," Waldman said.
The number of solar installations is spread across the state as politics doesn't appear to be an issue. The leading county, with more than five thousand solar rooftops, is Ocean, one of the most politically conservative counties in the state.
A Yonkers couple hit by a train while crossing a set of New Jersey Transit tracks in their vehicle early Sunday morning says there was no bell or barricade to indicate the train was coming until they were on the tracks, but NJT says an engineer saw them driving around the gates and onto the tracks.
Randa Sayegh, 55, was behind the wheel of a BMW as she and her husband, 58-year-old Bassam Sayegh, crossed the Midland Avenue tracks in Elmwood Park at about 1 a.m. Sunday after visiting their daughter.
She recalled: "The gate from the other side come down, and I hear the train coming and I said to my husband, 'The train is hitting us.' And the minute I say the words, the train hit us."
Bassam was ejected from the vehicle and landed about 30 feet away, and was knocked unconscious, he said. He is recovering with 50 stitches in his left leg and still needs a skin graft.
New Jersey Transit has ticketed Randa for ignoring a railroad crossing, but she insists the crash is "not my fault."
Bassam said his wife would not have ignored a safety gate if it was down.
"Obviously there was something wrong with that equipment that made her keep going which wasn't clear," he said.
But New Jersey Transit said the train engineer saw the vehicle going around the safety gates, blew the horn and applied the safety brakes before hitting the vehicle.
NJT said the safety gates were activated 41 seconds before the collision, time far exceeding federal safety regulations.
Elmwood Park Police Chief Michael Foligno said he has witnessed drivers misjudge the hazard at the Midland Avenue crossing, the most accident prone in the tri-state.
"I believe what makes it so dangerous is the oblique angle of the tracks here is wider than your normal regular crossing," he said.
The Federal Railroad Administration reports 30 accidents, six injuries, two deaths at the crossing since 1975, Sunday's collision not included.
The New Jersey Transit has a $1 million reconstruction and rehab project slated for the crossing to improve signaling and signage.
Paralyzed former Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand is making strides in the road to recovery.
LeGrand, who suffered a paralyzing injury during a 2010 game, tweeted a video Tuesday showing him bending forward while sitting in his wheelchair. The tweet reads, “Working on getting these back muscles stronger… little by little. Still as motivated as ever. Love y’all #bElieve.”
The former defensive tackle was paralyzed from the neck down while making a tackle on a kickoff in a game against Army. LeGrand, an Avenel resident who played at Colonia High School, seemed to move his head immediately after the play but did not move after that as trainers from Rutgers (4-2) rushed the field to attend to him. He lay on the field for about five minutes after making the tackle with the game tied at 17 and 5:10 to play.
Players from both teams took a knee while LeGrand was being treated.
NJ.com reports LeGrand was initially given a 0-to-5 percent chance of regaining neurological function following the injury.
Philadelphia Police detectives worked Wednesday to figure out when they would pick up the mother of a 21-year-old quadriplegic man accused of leaving him in a wooded area of a Philadelphia park for five days with just blankets and a bible.
Nyia Parler is expected to be charged with a number of crimes including attempted murder, aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment and neglect of a care-dependent person.
The 41-year-old appeared before a Rockville, Maryland judge via a closed circuit television Tuesday afternoon and waived extradition to Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Police detectives said Parler dump her son, who suffers from cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, on a pile of leaves and sticks off Cobbs Creek Parkway on April 13. She then left to visit her boyfriend in Maryland, police said.
A passer-by found the Parler's son five days later -- he was laying on the ground covered in a blanket, the wheelchair off to the side and a bible on his chest. Police took him to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where he continued to get treatment of malnourishment and exposure, police said.
Detectives tracked down Parler and issued a warrant for her arrest. But she had to be hospitalized last weekend for an undisclosed illness, police said.
Philadelphia Police Southwest Detectives Lt. John Walker said his office received extradition paperwork Wednesday but wouldn't be able to pick up Parler until Thursday at the earliest. Philadelphia Police have seven days to bring her back from Maryland.
Two prison guards were rushed from a Montgomery County prison after a fire broke out inside a cell Wednesday morning.
Medics could be seen putting a guard into an ambulance outside Graterford State Correctional Institution around 7 a.m.
As SkyForce10 hovered over the prison, located in the Collegeville area, a guard could be seen being loaded into an ambulance and rushed from the scene.
Prison officials said two correctional officers suffered smoke inhalation. Both were treated and released, according to prison assistant superintendent Kerry Kirschner.
Corrections staff, who are trained to extinguish fires quickly, put out the blaze, which was contained to the single cell, Kirschner said.
No inmates were injured.
Soon after the fire, the prison returned to normal operations.
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Police say the coyote that was captured in New Jersey after a man walking his dog was attacked earlier this week has tested positive for rabies, marking the second time in a month in one Garden State county that one of the canines has turned up rabid after acting aggressively toward people.
The update from Norwood police Wednesday comes a few days after the coyote bit Stephen Sinisi on the leg while he was walking his dog in the neighborhood. Sinisi said he and his dog were chased by the animal as they tried to make it to their house.
Sinisi said after the attack that he had begun a series of rabies shots.
Police launched a dragnet Monday to find the animal. During the search, an aggressive coyote attacked a police cruiser's wheels and officers found two dens close to Norwood Public School.
Police say they're fairly certain the coyote who attacked the car is the one they captured but aren't sure if the animal also attacked Sinisi.
Another one was spotted near one of the two dens Tuesday. While searching for that animal, authorities found two more dens. Police said Wednesday they are continuing to look for the second animal.
The attack is the second in Bergen County alone in recent weeks.
Earlier this month, a rabid coyote attacked a Saddle River man and mauled a neighbor's Labrador retriever. The dog needed about 30 stitches to close the wound left by the coyote and authorities said it would be quarantined for six months because it wasn't up to date on its rabies vaccinations.
In March, a family in Closter, another Bergen County town, said that two roaming coyotes took up residence in an old doghouse, howling at the moon and creating a nightly nuisance.
The sightings aren't limited to wooded areas in New Jersey, though. A coyote was spotted in Riverside Park on Wednesday morning, sparking a massive search and marking the fourth time in three months one of the mangy animals has been spotted in Manhattan.
Last week, a coyote was captured in a park near a church in Chelsea. In January, one coyote was captured on the Upper West Side, while another was rounded up in Stuyvesant Town.
Anyone who sees a wild animal that appears sick or is acting aggressively or is unusually friendly should call police, they say. Coyotes are normally shy animals, according to the Health Department.
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, the Humane Society says.
A smoky blaze that broke out inside the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s offices in King of Prussia early Tuesday, could keep workers out of the building for the immediate future.
The electrical fire began in a second floor utility room inside the District 6-0 building along Geerdes Boulevard in King of Prussia shortly around 3 a.m., said PennDOT spokesman Charlie Metzger Wednesday.
Originally, it appeared an employee was inside the building at a time, but Metzger said it turned out that worker responded after learning of the fire.
Luckily no one was hurt and King of Prussia firefighters contained the fire to the second-floor conduit. Fire crews brought in fans to clear out the smoke, which was heavy on the upper floors, said Montgomery County dispatchers.
Despite not being a huge fire, the damage was done. A main circuit popped and caused electricity to be cut to the entire building since the conduit runs from the basement to 4th floor, said Metzger.
Firefighters began to leave the scene around 5 a.m. as PennDOT tried to get everything back up and running as normal.
PennDOT fed auxiliary power to some critical areas -- the building houses PennDOT's traffic monitoring system -- but most of the building employees had to operate out of other PennDOT locations, said Metzger.
Metzger said there is no time frame for when employees will return to the KOP offices.
The cause of the blaze remained under investigation Wednesday.
