Two separate men took photos of a South Jersey High School within minutes of each other earlier this month and police want to know why.
Gloucester Township Police released surveillance video Monday that shows both incidents on Sunday, Sept. 13 outside Highland Regional High School on Erial Road in Blackwood.
Around 1:20 that day, a young man operating a dark sedan missing its front driver’s side hubcap stops on Erial Road and begins taking cellphone photos out the car window, said police.
About 10 minutes later, an older man driving what appears to be a small red Ford, with a passenger inside, drove onto school property and got out of his car to take several photos of the school, said investigators. The man then got back into the car and drove off.
Police hoped to track down the men for questioning. They asked that anyone with info call investigators at 856-228-4500, the GTPD anonymous tipline at 856-842-5560 or send an anonymous web tip.
A dozen people were hurt after a SEPTA bus crashed into a street pole in West Philadelphia Tuesday morning, police said.
The bus was traveling along Lansdowne Avenue near Haverford around 10:10 a.m. when the driver suffered a medical emergency that caused him to jump a curb and crash, SEPTA officials said.
Eleven passengers and the bus driver suffered non life-threatening injuries in the crash, according to officials.
The cause remained under investigation Tuesday afternoon.
A Chester High School student was taken into police custody Tuesday morning after a toy gun they brought into the school prompted a large police response and lockdown, officials tell NBC10.
Police, some armed with rifles, swarmed the high school located along the 200 block of W. 9th Street in Chester, Pennsylvania around 11 a.m. after a call came in for a gun in the school.
The school was placed on lockdown and officers performed a room-to-room sweep of the building, a spokesman for the Chester-Upland School District said. During the search, officers found what looked to be a gun inside a backpack. They later determined it was a toy.
No one was hurt and the 15-year-old student was taken into custody for questioning. Police recommended felony charges in the case, but the Delaware County District Attorney declined those charges saying the state criminal code doesn't allow for it.
The decision did not sit well with Chester Police and town officials who blasted prosecutors.
The student will be slapped with a misdemeanor charge and be released to his parents, the DA's office said.
Friends and family are mourning a Philadelphia teen who was crushed to death after he and four of his friends went into a paper company and began riding forklifts for fun.
Police responded to Newman Paper Company on the 6100 block of Tacony Street around 9 p.m. Sunday for reports of a person screaming.
When police arrived, they were met by four teens who told officers that their friend – later identified as 13-year-old Ethan Shoemaker - was pinned underneath a forklift.
According to investigators, the five teens entered the company grounds through a hole in a rear fence.
Once inside, police said they began riding forklifts.
Police say one of the forklifts operated by a 13-year-old girl crashed into a forklift that Shoemaker was riding.
Shoemaker’s forklift tipped over and pinned him to the ground, causing blunt impact injuries to his head. He was later pronounced dead.
A security guard told police he physically checked the yard at 8:30 p.m. during which time everything appeared to be secure and in place.
Shoemaker was a 7th grade student at Meehan Middle School in Philadelphia. Grief counselors are currently at the school to provide counseling for students and staff.
The incident remains under investigation.
Authorities are trying to determine who is responsible for the latest cyberattack that interrupted Internet service at Rutgers University.
School officials say the attack began on Monday morning, and service was restored by late Monday afternoon. They say the university is working with state and federal officials to find the attacker.
This is at least the fifth attack on Rutgers University's network in the last year. Similar attacks in May and August made the network inaccessible.
After the August attack, the university hired three cybersecurity firms to help protect its computer networks. At the time, school officials said the firms would be tasked with testing the university's network for vulnerabilities and other work that officials said they could not discuss for security reasons.
Police are on the hunt for thieves who they say stole thousands of dollars from several Dunkin’ Donuts shops in South Jersey.
The latest incidents occurred overnight Saturday into Sunday morning in Mantua Township and Greenwich Township, New Jersey.
Surveillance video from a Dunkin’ Donuts on Woodbury Glassboro Road in Mantua Township shows one of the suspects jump over a counter and then use a hammer to break into a back office.
“They’re armed with tools to commit these crimes,” said Mantua Township Police Detective Nick Guidotti. “These tools could also be used to injure people.”
After the suspects didn’t find any cash, they went to another Dunkin’ Donuts on Harmony Road in Greenwich Township that same night, according to police.
“The perpetrators broke into the building by prying open the drive-thru window entering the building,” said Greenwich Township Police Chief Joseph Giordano. “They removed the safe and they cleaned out three registers.”
Investigators say they later found the stolen safe in the woods off of I-295 emptied of nearly $8,000 in cash.
Surveillance images of the Greenwich Township Dunkin’ Donuts drive-thru also show a dark Dodge Intrepid which investigators believe the suspects were traveling in.
Police believe the suspects are also responsible for four other Dunkin’ Donuts break-ins in Gloucester Township and Delran, New Jersey since August 10. In all of the incidents, the tools and the clothing are similar, according to investigators.
“Hammer, a dark hooded sweatshirt, a backpack and gloves,” Chief Giordano said.
If you have any information on the suspects, please call Mantua Township Police at 856-468-1900, Greenwich Township Police at 856-423-1900. or 911.
For 134 years Lucy the Elephant has served as a bar, real estate office and museum. Today the six-story structure, located along the beach in Margate’s Josephine Harron Park, is a national historical landmark and remains a popular Jersey Shore tourist attraction.
Yet times have been hard for Lucy over the past few years. Her skin is stained with rust and the railings on the carriage on Lucy’s back are disintegrating.
“Right now Lucy is in pretty rough shape,” said Jeremy Bingaman, the Lucy the Elephant education director. "The wood is just falling apart from the inside. “
Crews began repairing Lucy a few days ago. Yet while they initially believed she’d need a $20,000 paint job, a closer look revealed the bill would be closer to $50,000.
“As they got in there and started exploring there was more damage than what we expected,” Bingaman said.
Officials still need to raise at least $35,000 and are selling $20 t-shirts to help cover the costs.
“We’ve got quite a ways to go still,’ Bingaman said.
Police are trying to identify a woman who was found dead on the beach in Ocean City, New Jersey.
The woman’s body washed up at the shore of the beach at 57th Street around 3 p.m. Tuesday.
Police say the victim is a white female who appears to be between the ages of 35 and 50. They also say they found no signs of trauma on her body.
The woman was wearing a purple shirt and blue jeans. There is a tattoo on her right shoulder of a heart with the name “Patrick” and an unknown secondary name. There is also a tattoo on her right forearm of angel wings with the name “Steven” and the dates “12-87” and “7-88.”
If you have any information on the woman’s identity please call the New Jersey State Police Atlantic City Marine Station at 609-441-3586 or the Ocean City Police Department at 609-399-9111.
Gov. Tom Wolf attacked the Legislature's Republican majority leaders on Tuesday as "the only thing standing between us and a real budget'' as a state government stalemate nears its fourth month and he prepares to veto a GOP-engineered short-term spending plan.
The first-term Democrat defended his planned veto and his stance in negotiations as seeking a sound, long-term fiscal path versus a series of flawed, Washington, D.C.-style short-term fixes. The stoppage of state aid has resulted in layoffs and huge borrowing costs as school districts, counties and nonprofit social services organizations search for ways to scrape by.
"I think the only thing standing between us and a real budget are Republican leaders,'' Wolf said Tuesday during a regularly scheduled appearance on Pittsburgh radio station KDKA-AM. "There are many Republican members who don't want to have Washington be imported into Harrisburg. They want us to get a real budget, they want us to pay our bills, and they want to invest in the things we have to invest in.''
On Friday, Republican leaders said for the first time that they would allow a floor vote on a budget package that includes an income or sales tax increase if Democrats can secure enough support to pass it.
Face-to-face talks between Wolf and top Republican lawmakers ended Monday afternoon without any breakthroughs but were expected to continue Tuesday.
Wolf has sought a multibillion-dollar tax increase that he says is necessary to wipe out the GOP's funding cuts for schools and human services enacted under his Republican predecessor, Tom Corbett, and to eliminate a long-term budget deficit. He also wants measures to cut residential school property taxes and impose a severance tax on the natural gas industry similar to one imposed by other major gas-producing states.
"I don't think that's too much to ask, because if we don't get those things we're not going to have a state worth living in,'' Wolf said Tuesday.
Stephen Miskin, a spokesman for House Majority Leader Dave Reed, R-Indiana, said people can't afford the tax increases that Wolf wants. Wolf has rejected the Republicans' reasonable and responsible spending plans so that he can hold schools and social services hostage in budget negotiations, Miskin said.
"He's not a person who is working to compromise,'' he said. "He just wants everybody to agree with him and not everybody does.''
Republican leaders have not agreed to a budget plan that includes any sort of tax increase. Instead, they have pressed Wolf to overhaul benefits in the state's two big public employee pension systems and to privatize the state-controlled wine and liquor store system.
Wolf insists he offered "historic'' compromise proposals on both pension benefits and the wine and liquor store system earlier this month. Republicans have criticized both proposals as not far-reaching enough.
"I'm willing to compromise,'' Wolf said Tuesday. "I understand we have divided government. What I don't understand is people who don't want to govern at all.''
He went on to say that he "cannot concede to people who just want to blow things up'' and characterized the stalemate as a contest over "whether we want to govern ourselves or not.''
Wolf reaffirmed that he plans to veto a short-term spending bill approved earlier this month by GOP majorities in the House and Senate and delivered to his office late in the day Monday. The $11 billion proposal would cover government costs incurred between July 1 and Nov. 1 and release billions in federal dollars.
Heavy rain is expected to hit the area overnight and continue through the Wednesday morning rush.
Scattered showers already moved through the Philadelphia area Tuesday afternoon. Another round of rain moved into the area late Tuesday and should continue into Wednesday.
“Tonight’s rain should be heaviest North and West with some areas getting more than one inch,” said NBC10 First Alert Weather Chief meteorologist Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz. “It should continue off and on into the morning rush.”
Glenn says the heaviest rain should hit overnight into Wednesday morning with one to two inches of rain expected in the Philadelphia area and over four inches of rain expected in Berks County and the Lehigh Valley.
Wednesday’s rain could be a preview of even more rain to come as a stalled front will cause more downpours Thursday and Friday that could lead to some flooding. The stalled front isn't related to Tropical Storm Joaquin, which could impact our area over the weekend.
“Tropical Storm Joaquin may strengthen into a hurricane but won’t move much the next two days,” Glenn said. “It may start to curve out to sea but then curve back towards the East Coast. At the same time a cold front comes through our area and stalls south of us. This brings much colder air in, increases easterly wind and produces a lot of rain even without Joaquin in the picture. If the storm/hurricane would hit nearby, it may not be until the weekend.”
Stay with NBC10.com for the latest weather updates.
Police are searching for a suspect who allegedly made sure he was properly groomed before robbing a Philadelphia nail salon.
The unidentified man walked inside Rockland Nails on the 1300 block of Rockland Street at 5:50 p.m. Sunday and asked for a manicure, investigators said. Four employees were working inside at the time.
After his manicure was finished and an employee told him how much it would cost, the suspect pulled out what appeared to be a sawed-off shotgun and demanded money, according to police. He then allegedly grabbed an unknown amount of cash from the register and fled eastbound on Rockland Street. No one was hurt during the ordeal.
The suspect is described as a stocky African American man between the ages of 30 and 40, standing 6-feet with a salt and pepper beard. He was last seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, dark-colored baseball hat, dark-colored pants and black and white sneakers.
If you have any information on his whereabouts, please call Philadelphia Police.
Four students have contracted viral meningitis at Pitman High School.
The virus is not considered as dangerous as bacterial meningitis. But it can cause fever, headaches and nausea.
The Gloucester County Health Department is working with school officials to prevent the spread.
Nursing director Ditty Mae Jankauskas tells NJ.com students should not share water bottles or eating utensils.
Officials are urging students and teachers to wash their hands and frequently touched surfaces are being cleaned.
