Robert Kelsey Jr. issued a challenge to his followers when he posted a video on Facebook of Atlantic City Police officer Jesse Oliver-Logan playing football with neighborhood kids Sunday afternoon.

“I'm pretty sure if this was a negative video with the police it will go viral,” he wrote. “So let's see if we can make [this] positive video do numbers!”

Sure enough, his video did just that, gaining around 65,000 views and over 2,000 shares by Monday night. Oliver-Logan, who was only recently hired as a full-time patrolman, told NBC10 he wasn’t doing it to gain attention. He was merely having fun with some of the kids in the area.

“I didn’t have any calls to go to so I went out there and had a catch with them,” he said.

Unbeknownst to him, Kelsey saw the interaction and decided to record it.

“Atlantic City’s finest out here with the youth, man,” Kelsey says in the video. “I don’t even see grownups doing this with their kids.”

Oliver-Logan says he’s shocked by how quickly the video spread.

“That was a surprise,” he said. “I had no idea it was going to blow up like this. Go viral.”

The pickup football game occurred in an area of Atlantic City that isn’t known for particularly positive interactions between the community and the police.

“It was great,” said Atlantic City resident Monique Brown. “I think it was lovely. The kids had fun. Usually these kids run away from the cops but they actually played with them."

Atlantic City Police Sergeant Monica McMenamin thanked Kelsey for sharing the positive clip.

“We thank the gentleman who took the video to recognize that officers do a lot of positive things,” she said.

Oliver-Logan told NBC10 his father, a retired Atlantic City police officer, was community-minded during his career as well. 

“He always told me to communicate with people and reach out,” Oliver-Logan said.

The officer also told NBC10 that positive interactions between police and the neighborhood are common; they’re just not often caught on video.

“I want to show them that we’re not monsters,” Oliver-Logan said. “We can be liked and you can come talk to us whenever.”
 

A water main break caused major flooding at Juniata Park Monday night.

The 12-inch water main broke at K and Cayuga streets and caused water to gush into the middle of the intersection. An official with the Philadelphia Water Department told NBC10 15 nearby homes in all were impacted.

"My grandchildren live with me," said Linda Whitaker. "So it's very inconvenient." 

Crews will work to repair the main Tuesday morning. East Cayuga is currently closed from Bennington Street to Claridge Street.

A missing baby girl was found safe Monday night. 

Police say 7-month-old Ja'Hiyah Johnson was located and is in good condition.

Ja'Hiyah's foster mother told police she was in the upstairs bathroom of her home on the 3000 block of Agate Street around 1 p.m. Friday. When the foster mother's 8-year-old daughter opened the front door, Ja'Hiyah's biological mother, Desiree Smith, entered the home, police said.

Smith allegedly took Ja'Hiyah away without the permission of the foster mother or DHS.

The next day Smith met with Ja'Hiyah's estranged aunt outside at 9th and Market streets, investigators said. Smith then allowed the aunt to take Ja'Hiyah to a party, believing she would bring her daughter back around 6 p.m. that same night, according to police. The aunt never came back with the child however, officials said.

Smith then contacted her DHS caseworker Monday morning and reported that her daughter was missing. DHS then contacted police.

While Ja'Hiyah was not harmed, police have not yet revealed whether the girl's biological mother or aunt will face any charges.

A would-be robber was shot and killed as he entered a home in Northeast Philadelphia late Monday night.

Investigators believe what was inside the home may have been a motive in the attempted robbery.

At about 11:30 p.m., an armed 35-year-old man approached the home in the 6100 block of Reach Street in the city’s Lawncrest section.

The suspect confronted a man who was leaving the home, forced him back in the house and announced a robbery.

Investigators say the homeowner pulled out a gun and fired two shots at the suspect, striking him in the neck and chest. The unidentified suspect was pronounced dead a short time later.

As police were investigating inside the home, officers found drugs, hundreds of dollars and apparent drug-packaging material.

"It’s a very good possibility that this home invasion robbery, the motive was to steal this narcotics-related money," Chief Inspector Scott Small explained.

So far, no charges have been filed.

The deadly incident remains under investigation.

Neighbors played the role of heroes as they caught a mother and her two young children after they jumped from the second floor of a home during a fire in Philadelphia Tuesday morning.

The fire broke out inside a home in the 4600 block of Oakland Street in the city’s Frankford section.

Witnesses told NBC10 the home started inside a home and quickly spread to two neighboring homes.

Residents who saw the fire began screaming for their neighbors to get out of the home.

Inside the home where the fire started were a 26-year-old woman and her two children – ages four and seven.

The three were forced to jump from the second floor on the backside of the home. Several neighbors caught the children and helped the mother get down to safety.

All three were taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center for treatment of smoke inhalation. They are all expected to fully recover.

The fire heavily damaged three homes.

The cause remains under investigation.

A woman died during a crash in Philadelphia early Tuesday morning, police said.

The crash happened about 7:30 a.m. at the intersection of Fox Street and Abbottsford Avenue in the East Falls neighborhood.

The crash involved two cars and left a woman dead.

The location where the crash happened is the off-ramp for Fox Street from the southbound lanes of the Roosevelt Boulevard. The accident scene is creating a traffic back-up in the area.

The deadly crash remained under investigation Tuesday afternoon.

A suspect pushed a 102-year-old woman and prevented her from pushing her lifeline pendant during a home invasion robbery in New Jersey, police said.

The incident happened about 8:40 p.m. on December 7 at a home on Dock Street in Toms River.

Police say a 72-year-old and her 102-year-old mother were inside their home when the doorbell rang.

The 72-year-old woman answered the door and was pushed inside the home by the suspect.

Police say the suspect grabbed the 72-year-old and dragged her towards the interior of the home where her 102-year-old mother was located.

The 102-year-old woman tried to activate her lifeline pendant that was around her neck, but the suspect pushed her to the ground and yanked it away before she could push the button.

The suspect demanded cash and obtained an undisclosed amount before running out of the house.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Lou Santora at 732-349-0150 extension 1276.

Police in the Philadelphia suburbs asked for the public’s help to track down a driver who took out “an expensive piece of equipment” intended to keep speeds down near a school.

The incident played out at 7:42 a.m. Monday outside Wyncote Elementary School on Rices Mill Road in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, Cheltenham Township Police posted to Facebook.

The silver four-door sedan kept going after striking a speed message/trailer – a device that let’s drivers know how fast they are going – leaving the trailer flipped over in the street and leaving pieces of the car’s headlight on the street, said police.

Surveillance video from the school shows several other cars in the area at the time of the crash. None of the drivers stopped nor reported the incident, said police. Instead, a township employee noticed the damaged machine about two hours later.

“This is an expensive piece of equipment that is now useless,” said police.

Investigators released a photo from moments before the collision in hopes of tracking down the driver who should have sustained damage to their front-right headlight. Anyone with information is asked to contact Cheltenham Police.

Police have arrested a brazen burglar who is accused of using rocks to smash his way into several Northeast Philadelphia businesses over the span of about a week.

Police said on Monday that 45-year-old Steven Glemser, of Harrow Road in Northeast Philly's Modena Park neighborhood, is facing burglary charges for breaking into seven businesses between Nov. 21 and Nov. 29.

A tip based on surveillance video released to the media last week led police to identify Glemser as the suspect, police told NBC10. Police said that 24th District officers spotted Glemser near Kensington Avenue and Somerset Street on Saturday morning and arrested him on an outstanding warrant for the burglaries.

Surveillance video from one of the burglaries shows the suspect now identified as Glemser throwing a heavy object -- which police said they believe may be a rock or brick -- through the glass door of Little Caesar's Pizza on Red Lion Road near Academy, in Modena Park. Police said once inside, the man took an unknown amount of cash.

A few days later, police say Glemser struck again, this time overnight Nov. 24 at the Suburban Pharmacy, on Bustleton Avenue near Kelvin. In that incident, police said the man used a brick to smash through the glass front door and steal lottery tickets.

Three days after that, police said the suspect smashed through the glass at Beijing Restaurant, located on the same block as the Little Caesar's he hit a few days before. Over the next two days -- Nov. 28 through Nov. 29 -- police said the suspect, using the same method, burglarized a BP gas station on Frankford Avenue near Knights Road, in Morrell Park, and then broke into the Craft Beer Outlet, a dry cleaner and a Super Cuts on the same block.

At the beer outlet, police said, the man stole cigarettes and cash. He did not take anything from the dry cleaner or Super Cuts, police said.

Glemser, whose court record shows that he has prior arrests on theft charges, is facing multiple counts of burglary and related offenses, police said.

A SEPTA schedule change on its Regional Rail line has some customers who would be impacted concerned.

Beginning December 13, the Airport Line Trains will operate on a new timetable that is meant to “enhance service reliability.”

According to SEPTA, weekday trains will no longer continue through service to Warminster and West Trenton lines.

The schedule change is expected to impact those who often travel to the Philadelphia International Airport and University City.

A posting on the “Elkins Park Happenings!” Facebook page has generated more than two dozen comments with many riders seemingly confused by the changes.

SEPTA is expected to hold a news conference Wednesday to discuss the changes. For more information on the schedule changes, you can visit SEPTA.org.

Surveillance video rolled as a guy smoking a cigarette stole a family’s Christmas cheer right off their front door.

Philadelphia Police released video Tuesday of the heist around 10:45 p.m. Sunday outside a home on the 2400 block of Aspen Street in the city’s Fairmount section.

In the video you see the guy – who police say appears to be in his 40s – wearing a light-colored jacket, light-colored pants and a knit cap smoking a cigarette as he approaches the front door.

After a few moments he takes the decorated wreath and leaves.

Police asked anyone who recognizes the man to give them a call at 215-686-8477 or text a tip to 773847.

A South Jersey University vowed to combat hate after several swastikas and other anti-Semitic markings were carved onto several doors in a residence hall in the days leading up to Hanukkah.

Rowan University learned of the hateful vandalism using the sign of Nazi Germany on Thursday and later held a floor meeting to inform students in in Chestnut Hall about the incident, said Dean of Students Richard Jones in an email to sent to the Rowan community.

The university alerted police of the incident in hopes of tracking down those responsible. They asked anyone with information to contact campus public safety at 856-256-4922.

"It didn't seem like it was targeted at any particular students because the residents of those rooms aren't Jewish," VP for University Relations Dr. Jose Cardona said.

The Glassboro university’s Jewish community pledged to not be intimidated by the hateful imagery and the Rohr Family Jewish Student Center - Chabad of Rowan University even planned its first public menorah lighting -- Tuesday night at 7 -- to mark Hanukkah in unity.

“We invite everyone to attend as a sign of Jewish pride, solidarity, and as a statement of defiance in the face of hatred and bigotry,” said Rabbi Hersh Loschak.

“We refuse to be intimidated or frightened, in fact we will use this incident as a motivation to increase the light and expand our programming for Jewish students on campus,” said Loschak.

Jones said the university is also working on creating a campus without hate.

“As the University works to create a truly inclusive campus community, and consistent with the spirit of the season, we encourage all students, faculty and staff to reflect on ways that we can personally impact campus climate in a positive way,” said Jones.

Castle Danger Brewery in Two Harbors, Minnesota, has been brewing what it calls "dangerously good ales" on the north shore of Lake Superior since 2011. The company outgrew its original home in tiny Castle Danger and now distributes beer to bars and restaurants throughout northern and central Minnesota.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., hails the brewery as an example of the growing craft-beer industry in her state and says she fears that a deal to merge the world's biggest beer companies into a megabrewer could make it harder for Castle Danger and other small brewers to sell their brands.

Klobuchar and other lawmakers from both parties raised questions at a Senate hearing Tuesday on the proposed $107 billion takeover by the world's largest brewer, Anheuser Busch InBev, of rival SABMiller. The combined company would control nearly a third of the global beer market.

"Wholesalers make decisions everyday on what brands to put on their trucks," Klobuchar said. "By working to ensure those decisions are driven by consumer demand and not producer power, we can help competition in the beer industry remain on tap."

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said he worried the merger could harm Delaware-based brewers such as Dogfish Head and 16 Mile.

"Nobody wants to take a seat at a bar and find out that their only options are Bud and Miller," Coons said. "I'm deeply concerned this merger will squeeze out the small and independent craft brewers in Delaware and across the country at the cost of innovation, consumer choice and jobs."

Carlos Brito, CEO of Anheuser Busch InBev, tried to reassure lawmakers, saying the proposed merger was not about squeezing out smaller competitors in the United States, but instead was intended to open markets in Africa, Asia and Central and South America.

Under the deal, the Miller brand would be sold to rival Molson Coors, which would have full control of operations.

The merger "is about bringing more choices to more consumers around the world, including extending the reach of iconic American brands such as Budweiser to new markets," Brito told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights.

By selling the popular Miller brand to Molson Coors, the deal ensures that Anheuser Busch InBev's market share in the U.S. will not change, Brito said.

"If anything, this deal will create an even more competitive landscape in the U.S. by creating a stronger competitor in Molson Coors," he said.

The U.S. beer industry is more competitive than ever with the strong growth of craft beer and increased competition from wine and liquor, Brito said.

In the U.S., craft beers account for about 11 percent of beer sales, compared with about 1 percent 25 years ago.

Klobuchar was unconvinced.

"You have these little businesses in Two Harbors, Minnesota, who see a threat" that the combined giant breweries "have this kind of market power in terms of the distribution system," she said.

Belgium-based Anheuser Busch InBev, already the world's largest brewer, makes Budweiser, Corona, Stella Artois and Beck's. SABMiller, based in London, has Miller Genuine Draft, Peroni and Milwaukee's Best among its 200 or so brands.

Craig Purser, president and CEO of the National Beer Wholesalers Association, said the sheer magnitude of the merged companies could make competing difficult for smaller companies. Large brewers can "exert pressure on independent distributors not to carry rival brands and on retailers to design their shelves to disfavor or remove rival brands," he said.

Diana Moss, president of the American Antitrust Institute, an advocacy group that promotes competition in the economy, said the proposed merger could raise beer prices for consumers and reduce choice and diversity in the marketplace.

Moss suggested a number of conditions that could be imposed on the new megabrewer, including restrictions on how it distributes beer to wholesalers and retailers.

Klobuchar, the subcommittee's ranking Democrat, agreed. While she said she does not oppose the merger, "it seems like there should be some conditions to protect this growing industry, which is all about U.S. jobs," Klobuchar said.

Jamie MacFarlane, co-owner of Castle Danger Brewery, said in a phone interview that the company has no positon on the proposed merger. But she did not sound worried.

"I do feel that a big reason why craft breweries are so prevalent right now is because people like local, and they want to know where their beer is coming from," she said.