A teen with Asperger’s Syndrome who went missing from his Abington home Wednesday has been found safe.
Dylan Segelski, 16, was found Friday near Knights Road in Northeast Philadelphia.
Segelski was last seen at his home in Abington Township about 5 p.m. Wednesday.
The teen was found by his father.
A deadly stowaway was found on a container ship at Port Elizabeth this week, but captured before it could do any harm.
The Indian cobra snake was discovered at the APM Terminal Monday as crews were unloading a ship that had traveled through South Asian waters en route to the Garden State.
Worried crew members on board the Maersk Sana called federal officials and wildlife authorities, and the Bronx Zoo's Kevin Torregosa, a herpetologist, a zoologist that studies reptiles and amphibians, responded with his partner.
The Indian cobra is among the four snake species that inflict the most snakebites on humans. Its venom acts on the synaptic gaps of the nerves, paralyzing muscles, and in severe cases leads to cardiac arrest or respiratory failure. The Indian cobra is the snake often seen with charmers.
Torregosa said he and his partner boarded the ship and made sure their flash lights illuminated any dark corners so they weren't reaching around blindly. They found the 18-inch, 1-year-old snake not far from where longshoremen unloading the cargo had first seen it.
He said the snake was a bit dehydrated and week, but he had doses of anti-venom with him just in case.
The female snake was taken to the Bronx Zoo. She has been named Sana, in honor of the ship on which she was found. No one on the ship could say how the snake got on board, so the reptile will be quarantined for 30 days. It's not clear if the snake will stay at the Bronx Zoo, but if it does, it will be the only one of its species at the facility.
The Bronx Zoo is run by the Wildlife Conservation Society.
A brain condition caused by a parasite killed a young red panda last month just months after his grand debut at a suburban Philadelphia zoo.
Clinger, an 18-month-old red panda, died Nov. 29 at Norristown's Elmwood Park Zoo.
Elmwood Park Zoo veterinarian Dr. Adam Denish performed a necropsy on Clinger after the furry animal was found unresponsive but found no obvious cause of death. A zoological pathologist looked over tissue samples and determined that Clinger died from meningo-encephalitis -- a brain disease (similar to the encephalitis in humans) likely caused by a protozoa or parasite.
“Unfortunately the are no simple tests to check for this illness without conducting a biopsy of the brain,” said Denish.
In a strange twist, a parasite also killed Clinger's mother, Shama.
Clinger was one of three red panda brothers that came to the Norristown, Pennsylvania zoo from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute this past spring and made their debut in June.
After the death, the zoo performed full examinations of the Clinger’s brothers Shredder and Slash and found both animals to be healthy.
Red pandas are an endangered species resembling a raccoon that feeds on bamboo and are traditionally found in southwestern Asia.
An Ursinus College student died after stepping out into the street and being struck by a sport utility vehicle along a busy road that runs through the campus in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.
The Nissan Rogue struck Michelle Buck as she stepped out onto the crosswalk of East Main Street near 6th Avenue around 7 p.m. Thursday, said the Montgomery County District Attorney's Officer.
The Herndon, Virgina native died at the scene.
The driver of the Rogue -- a Collegeville resident -- stopped and cooperated with investigators.
The DA's office said the driver submitted a blood sample to help determine if blood or alcohol played a role int he case.
As of midday Friday no charges were field and the investigation continued including looking into diving conditions at the time.
The death hit the tight-knit Ursinus community hard.
“It is tragic when we lose a member of the Ursinus family,” said President Brock Blomberg, in a message to campus following the accident. “Please join me in keeping her family and friends in your thoughts and prayers. I encourage all of us to find comfort and support in one another during this trying time.”
Counselors would be available to students, school officials said.
Investigators asked anyone with information about the crash to give them a call at 610-489-9332.
Louisiana-based Zatarain’s voluntarily recalled its red beans and rice due to a possible allergen on Thursday.
Zatarain's Red Beans and Rice Original 8 ounce boxes with a best buy date of July 31, 2016 have been recalled. The boxes were distributed in the Midwest and Eastern United States and shipped between Aug. 7 and Sept. 29. The package UPC number is 7142909849.
The boxes may contain dairy ingredients and creamy parmesan rice mix, according to the company's press release. However, dairy allergens are not labeled on the red beans and rice original package.
No illnesses or allergic reactions have been reported to date and no other products are involved in this recall, according to Zatarain’s.
Consumers are urged to discard the product and may contact Zatarain’s Consumer Affairs team at 877-837-3796 for a full refund or replacement.
Target Corp. has signed a lease to open a third Center City store in space now occupied by Whole Foods at 2001 Pennsylvania Ave.
The Callowhill Whole Foods (NYSE:WFM) will eventually relocate into 55,000 square feet of space in the retail portion of the Rodin Square and Dalian mixed-use development that is underway at 22nd Street, Pennsylvania Avenue and Hamilton Street. It is scheduled to open early next fall and that opened up an opportunity for another tenant to move into that space.
The current Whole Foods is just 30,000 square feet and Target is expect to occupy the entire space.
A Target (NYSE: TGT) spokeswoman declined to disclose additional information about the third store at this time but did say “Philadelphia is a priority market for the company.” Read more about the plans on the Philadelphia Business Journal.
For the latest business news from around the region, check out PBJ.com.
Advocates fighting to end youth homelessness in the Philadelphia region and across the country will get an influx of new cash to bolster their efforts next year.
Congress on Friday approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill that includes $42.5 million in new money for initiatives to help homeless young people.
The increased funding, supported by U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.), will be used by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to expand housing access for homeless youth in cities and rural towns and test new strategies to combat the problem.
"It's especially bad when we live in a country with so much wealth, but so many young people are particularly vulnerable when they don't have a place to stay," Casey told NBC10.
HUD and community partners will also work to develop better ways to count homeless youth — a particularly challenging effort.
A nationwide count in January 2014 found nearly 200,000 young people up to age 24 were homeless. In Philadelphia, more than 600 kids self-identified as homeless during a count this January, but experts say the numbers are likely much higher.
John Ducoff, executive director of Covenant House Pennsylvania, which runs the city's only shelter specifically helping homeless youth, describes the kids as "invisible."
"Our young people do not want to be known as homeless, so they go to incredible efforts to hide that fact," he said.
Casey made a public push for new funding in October on the heels of the NBC10 Digital Exclusive investigation Faces of Homeless Youth. The in-depth project highlighted the problem in Philadelphia through the eyes of more than a dozen current or formerly homeless young people. Among the issues raised is a lack of services for young people between the ages of 18 and 24 years old.
The senator, who has a history of supporting projects helping youth, praised the series as a way to bring more attention to the issue overall.
Explore Faces of Homeless Youth and learn how you can get involved in the fight to end youth homelessness in our special section here.
"Hello!" did you try and try but not succeed at getting tickets to see singing superstar Adele in Philadelphia next fall?
Well, you're not alone as Adele fans around the country got waiting screens rather than ticket purchasing screens as they attempted to snag tickets to see the "Hello" and "Rolling in the Deep" singer during her first large-scale arena tour.
The tour will stop at the Wells Fargo Center in South Philadelphia on Friday, Sept. 9 and Saturday, Sept. 10. Tickets -- ranging from $39.50 to $149.50 -- went on sale for both dates at 10 a.m. Thursday on ComcastTix.com and at the Wells Fargo Center Box Office and sold out rather quickly, according to Comcast Spectacor.
Organizers didn't say how quickly the tickets sold out. But, within moments, tickets were gone and popping up for hundreds of dollars above face value on second-hand sites.
If price is no matter, plenty of tickets are still available for the South Philly performances -- most starting around five times face value including surcharges.
Obstructed view tickets on StubHub start at $266 for the Friday show and $280 for Saturday. Expect to pay $300 or more if you want a full view of the British diva on stage.
Want to get closer to the stage and got a few thousand dollars to burn? You can buy two seats near the stage (not even on the floor) Friday night for $2,900 on Ebay.
Not as interested in sitting that close and looking to spend a little less? Tickets in the upper deck across from the stage start at $325 a ticket on Craigslist.
The cheapest second-hand tickets appear to be on VividSeats where nosebleed rearview seats start at $239 for Friday and $261 for Saturday.
And, don’t forget about parking reserved parking begins at $75 a pass on StubHub.
Adele’s latest album 25 has already sold millions of copies and spanned the viral-hit "Hello."
And for the disappointed fans, there is always a place like Twitter to vent.
Comcast is the parent company of NBC10.
A former Upper Darby Police officer is accused of stealing money and drugs from the evidence lockup to fuel a prescription drug addiction.
Brad Ross, 41, is charged with 203 counts of theft, tampering with evidence, receiving stolen property and related offenses. A 17 year veteran of the Upper Darby Police force, Ross was a detective and worked in the evidence room.
Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan said Friday the investigation into the theft started in February after an officer noticed a sealed evidence bag appeared to have been reopened. Detectives found pills of Oxycodone missing from the prescription bottle inside, according to Whelan.
An later audit of the evidence room found 3,767 pills and suboxone strips (a opioid addiction assistance medication) to be missing. Jewelry, gift cards, cellphones and $14,224 in cash were also taken, Whelan said.
Prosecutors said associates of Ross told detectives he asked them to cop illegal drugs for him so he could replace what was taken from the evidence lockup. They also said, according to prosecutors, Ross' wife, Ella Ross, would buy illegal drugs in Philadelphia at specific weights and colors. She has not been charged with any wrongdoing.
Ross resigned from the department about a month into the probe. Shortly before the investigation began, Ross voluntarily entered an inpatient drug rehabilitation program. Officials said Ross apparently became addicted to the prescription painkillers while recovering from a 2012 car crash.
"His selfish and shameful behavior has not only caused his department a great deal of anguish and difficulty, but has led to the potential compromise of evidence," Whelan said.
Despite the evidence tampering, the DA believes the cases are still sound and can be successfully prosecuted.
Ross was arraigned Friday. He's out on bail. NBC10 has reached out to his attorney for comment.
A staffer at the center of a data breach that has Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign sparring with the Democratic Party says he was simply trying to expose a bug while logging into private files for Hillary Clinton's camp.
Josh Uretsky was fired as the national data director for the Sanders campaign on Friday.
Speaking with NBC10 in Philadelphia Friday night, he acknowledged accessing a Democratic National Committee database containing voter information belonging to the Clinton campaign. But, the 39-year-old said he did it to make a record of a software glitch that gave all campaigns access to each other's records.
"I deliberately left all of the data that I was accessing, all the voter file data that I was accessing, in the DNC's systems so that once the bug was reported, discovered and closed down, they had access to those files. They could use it to see the scope of the issue," Uretsky said at Philadelphia International Airport after returning home from New Hampshire.
Three other Sanders campaign employees also accessed the files, the Sanders campaign acknowledged. Campaign officials haven't yet decided if they'll be disciplined.
The database, run by technology firm NGP VAN for the DNC, houses voter data for the presidential hopefuls.
NGP VAN audit documents obtained by NBC News showed four Sanders staffers spent about 40 minutes searching through lists of Clinton supporters in 10 early voting states. Sanders documents were also accessed. The files were saved to personal folders, the documents showed.
Uretsky said he looked at files to make "sure it was not our data" and the way he did that could be "misconstrued as a download."
"I tried to do what I did in a very transparent manner," he said. "I was trying very deliberately to leave a trail of what I was doing and what had happened and what was exposed."
Clinton's campaign maintained their data was stolen. In response, the DNC revoked the Sanders camp's access to the database until an investigation is conducted.
Jeff Weaver, Sanders' campaign director, called the staffers' actions inappropriate, but said shutting them out from the database was unjust. "We are running a clean campaign," he said.
The Sanders campaign filed a federal lawsuit against the DNC on Friday demanding access to the database. The suit maintains the lockout could cost them $600,000 a day in lost donations.
Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams plans to meet with taxi and Uber Black drivers next week to hear their complaints about ride-sharing services like UberX and Lyft.
Williams will sit down with the drivers on Tuesday, his office and the Philadelphia Limo Association confirm.
The drivers have argued the low-cost services which are exempt from parking authority licensing requirements by using drivers' personal cars are hurting their business.
The taxi drivers are required to pay yearly for operating licenses through the Philadelphia Parking Authority and carry large insurance policies. They're also subjected to a number of regulations.
The popular smartphone app-driven services do not have to contend with any of that.
State lawmakers continue to debate the legality of the services, but in the meantime they're allowed to operate. UberX handled its 1 millionth Philly ride in October.
Taxi and Uber Black drivers, which are black car limo drivers operating as Uber's premium service, have held a number of protests arguing the services should be shut down or ordered to comply with the same rules.
On Wednesday, some 600 drivers flooded Center City. They parked their cars in the middle of streets around City Hall and marched for about 30 minutes.
Police swarmed two Delaware County, Pennsylvania shopping centers on the ground and by air Friday night after a bomb threat was phoned in to authorities.
A man called the Wal-Mart along the 600 block of Conchester Highway in Boothwyn just before 10 p.m. and said there was a bomb left there, police tell NBC10. Right after, he called a Rite-Aid about a mile away to say a bomb was left on the roof, authorities said. Both stores then called police.
Officers responded to the area and evacuated every store and several fast food restaurants. Roads in the area were also shut down, police said.
A Wal-Mart shopper told NBC10 that while evacuating, she was told police were investigating a suspicious package under a car in the parking lot.
Police K-9 units were called in to sweep the area. Philadelphia Police's tactical air unit also came to help by checking the building roofs for any devices.
Police did not find any devices.
The stores reopened at normal hours Saturday.
