Customers who were turned away from the Lilly Pulitzer Warehouse Sale in Oaks Thursday night because of safety concerns camped out overnight, frustrated that they could not get into the sale.
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Two young children were critically hurt after falling four stories from the window of an Allentown, Pennsylvania apartment building.
The 3-year-old and 5-year-old girls fell about 40 feet from the building along the 700 block of Turner Street around 7:50 p.m. Friday, Allentown Police Capt. Gail Struss told NBC10.
Officers perfromed CPR on the girls, according to witnesses, before paramedics rushed the children to Lehigh Valley Hospital — Cedar Crest where they were listed in critical condition, Struss said.
Circumstances surrounding the girls' fall are under investigation. A child-sized chair could be seen on the window-sill following the fall.
Witnesses said the girls' grandmother was on the scene following the fall. It's not clear who was watching them at the time.
"Watch the tram car please."
They are the words and voice that millions immediately connect with just one place: The Wildwoods.
Wrong.
The exact same recording you can hear blaring from brand-new tram cars on Atlantic City’s boardwalk and it’s driving a wave of anger from The Wildwoods.
“I think that’s a violation,” vacationer Derek Middleman said.
“Shame on them. I mean, you can’t come up with your own idea,” said Wildwood Mayor Ernie Troiano. “They took the DO AC, that was Do Wildwood, Do WW long before.”
When the AC tram cars debuted in March, NBC10 asked the company operating them about why they were using the exact same voice.
Tim Boland, B&B Parking vice president, said the phrase “wasn’t trademarked” so they decided to use it.
“They didn’t have any rights to it or claim anything so, we liked it,” he said.
But Wildwood officials don’t agree with Boland’s assertion. Patrick Rosenello, head of The Wildwoods Boardwalk Special Improvement District, which operates these tram cars, says he reached out to Atlantic City officials about the issue months ago, but got no response.
“The fact that it has been in use by us for decades, it is our property. It is proprietary and they shouldn’t be using it and how they obtained it is also questionable,” he said. “We are pursuing some legal action.”
They might not have to, though. After NBC10 reached out to Atlantic City officials today, they immediately asked the tram company to change the recording.
A company rep says they’ll do just that on Monday with a different voice and phrase. The spokesman says they don’t want to create any problems with The Wildwoods and tells us the business that installed the trams’ audio equipment took the recording off the internet.
“They shouldn’t have done it,” Augusctin said.
Soon, the message will again belong solely to The Wildwoods — an icon that many at the shore point say never should’ve been heard anywhere else.
Two bald eaglets in New Jersey were banded by officials last month, weeks ahead of their first flight, which should happen sometime in late June or early July, according to the state's Endangered and Nongame Species Program.
Four towermen from Public Service Electric & Gas climbed a transmission tower in Somerset County last month to place colored identification bands on the birds' legs.
The two eaglets join New Jersey's surging eagle population, which has grown from one nesting pair in 1982 to roughly 150 pairs today, according to the ENSP. PSE&G said there are a half dozen nesting pairs living on its towers across the state.
The eaglets' nest was first spotted by PSE&G on the Roseland-Lambertville transmission line earlier this year. Officials from PSE&G and ENSP kept a close eye on the nest until the eggs hatched. ENSP biologists asked PSE&G for help banding the birds when they reached the age of about 5-to-7-weeks-old.
"We were only too glad to help," Claudia Rocca, a licensing project manager at PSE&G, said.
Towermen for the utility climbed the transmission tower and put the eaglets into large cloth duffle bags one at a time. The birds, a male and female, were then lowered via ropes and pulleys to teammates on the ground. Veterinarians and environmental officials checked the eaglets, taking body measurements and blood samples before banding them with state and federal bands. Each bird weighed 9 pounds.
After a brief photo opportunity, the eaglets were sent back up to the nest. They didn't go back empty handed.
"As a token of our appreciation, we left a fish in the nest for their next meal," Rocca said.
The eaglets will develop their tell-tale white head and tail feathers when they're about 4-to-5-years-old.
Although no longer listed as endangered federally, in New Jersey bald eagles are still listed as endangered species during breeding season. They're also a state and federally protected species under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.
One New Jersey teen is headed to his senior prom Friday night with a little bit of notoriety thanks to a failed promposal that his friends are calling the "ultimate high school prank."
Friends tell NBC 4 New York they tricked Park Ridge High School student Patrick Smith into asking fellow student Jen Malespina to prom in front of 2,000 others at a track meet in Hasbrouk Heights in April. The friends said they knew Malespina would turn him down -- she already had a date -- but they didn't think video of the joke would go viral online.
"At first it was like, 'Oh my God, I hate you,'" Smith said. "And then it turned into, 'Wow this is getting viral, may as well make the most of it.'"
Footage of the proposal, where Smith asks Malespina to go to prom in the middle of the field with a microphone, was originally posted in April, but has gained attention from national media outlets this week, just days before the school's prom.
The video has been viewed thousands of times, and was reported to be a hoax earlier in the week, but Smith's friends say that the 18-year-old wasn't in on the gag.
"We knew he could handle it, he embarrasses himself all the time," Smith's friend, Chris Murphy, said.
Smith said he was very embarrassed when Malespina told him "I already have a date" -- a line that was met with cackles and jeers from the track meet attendees -- but has been taking the gag in stride. He said he was able to get another date to the prom, and he's even changed his Twitter bio to reference the failed promposal, he said.
"Do your research, do your homework, don't trust your friends," Smith said.
Gunfire rang out around in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood overnight leaving a teenager shot nine times.
After being shot just after 1 a.m. along E Bringhurst Street , the 17-year-old victim managed to walk about 300 yards to Garden City Chinese Food takeout where he collapsed, said Philadelphia Police.
Someone at the late-night food spot called 911 and medics arrived to rush the boy to Einstein Medical Center in critical condition.
It wasn't clear how many gunshots rang out. Investigators found bullet holes in a car parked in the area.
The search for the gunman continued Saturday, said police.
A driver died after a car flipped over along Interstate 95 in Delaware county, Pennsylvania Saturday morning.
Joseph Smith, 22, was driving a Grey Ford Escape on I-95 southbound at milepost 10.5 in Tinicum Township at 12:30 a.m. when the vehicle left the roadway and struck the metal guiderail, causing it to overturn.
Smith, who police say was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from the vehicle. He was taken to Crozer Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The wreck caused closures of two southbound lanes near Exit 9 for three hours.