Church's Same-Sex Marriage View Causing Followers to Flee
Not surprisingly, a high percentage of area Catholics have left the church over the sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the organization in the past decade. But that's not all. A Catholic parish in...
View ArticleWATCH: Jury Selection Continues in Zimmerman Trial
Jury selection for the George Zimmerman trial was set to continue to Tuesday morning. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the February 2012 shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. He has...
View Article911 Caller Sentenced to Jail For Deadly Lie
A man who admitted to lying to a 911 dispatcher that he was robbed at gunpoint, leading responding police to fatally shoot an unarmed man in Pasadena, Calif., took a plea deal for three months in jail,...
View ArticleCity Council to Provide Emergency Funding for Philly Schools
Philadelphia City Council is set to announce a plan to come up with tens of millions in emergency funding to stave off extreme cuts and layoffs in city schools. Council President Darrell Clarke will...
View ArticleWATCH: 2008 Times Square Bike Bomber Plants Explosive
The FBI released new surveillance video that tracks the bike-riding suspect in the 2008 Times Square military recruiting station bombing from 37th Street to the device drop-off point. The surveillance...
View ArticleGrandma, Baby Murder Suspect Coerced: Lawyer
A defense attorney for a man accused of killing a woman and her granddaughter in a botched ransom kidnapping says his client was coerced into confessing. The Times Herald reports attorney Stephen...
View Article"Radioactive-Looking" Sinkholes
A hole opens up in the street and a fluorescent green fluid appears inside. What is that stuff? It sounds like a scene from an episode of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a Nickelodeon slime show or a...
View ArticleDriver Guilty in Airborne Fire Hydrant Crash
A driver who crashed into a South Jersey tavern killing a passenger and sending a fire hydrant into an innocent bystander faces a lengthy prison term after being convicted of aggravated manslaughter...
View ArticleSan Jose Sues MLB Over A's Move
The City of San Jose has filed a lawsuit against Major League Baseball Tuesday regarding the Oakland A's move to San Jose. San Jose claims MLB is unjustly standing in the way of the A's move, which...
View ArticleMan Sentenced For Robbing Elderly Woman
A man who was caught on video attacking and robbing a 94-year-old woman on Easter Sunday in 2012 learned his fate on Tuesday. Antonio Santiago, 30, of Bridesburg, was arrested on April 15, 2012, and...
View ArticleBlagojevich Lawyer Wants More Time to File Appeal
It looks like the world is going to have to wait a bit longer for Rod Blagojevich's version of why he deserves a new trial. The former Illinois governor was convicted in 2011 of 17 counts of corruption...
View ArticleCousteau's Grandson Plans 31-Day Florida Underwater Exploration
Filmmaker and oceanographic explorer Fabien Cousteau will spend 31 days underwater in Florida exploring the ocean. Starting Sept. 30, Cousteau will lead Mission 31, where he and his team will live...
View Article40 Cats Rescued From Alleged Animal Hoarder in Philly
A woman is in custody after investigators say she hoarded over three dozen cats inside her home. Humane Law Enforcement officers with the Pennsylvania SPCA were called to a row house on the 2000 block...
View ArticleFacebook Outage Sparks Online Frenzy
Facebook crashed on Tuesday and people took to Twitter to lob complaints, laugh and joke about the outage. Website monitoring site DownRightNow noted that the social network went down at around 9:10...
View ArticleMystery of the Missing Minnows
It’s a question that numerous fishermen at the Jersey Shore are wondering this year. Where did all the minnows go? “It’s really tough this season,” said Steve Wolfschmidt. “It just stinks.” Wolfschmidt...
View ArticleYahoo: 13,000 Data Requests From Law Enforcement in Six Months
Do you Yahoo? The government does. Yahoo says that U.S. law enforcement agencies filed "between 12,000 and 13,000" requests for data from Jan. 1, 2013 to May 31 of this year, according to Reuters....
View ArticleStarbucks to Post Calorie Counts Nationwide
Coffee drinkers might soon reconsider splurging on 460-calorie Java Chip Frappuccino at Starbucks. Beginning next week, the coffee giant will post calorie counts on their menu boards, getting ahead of...
View ArticleJersey Shore Family Deals With Flooding
Heavy rains and high water at the Jersey Shore have some hurricane battered residents worried their homes will be flooded again. NBC10's Nefertiti Jaquez talks to one family that's back in panic...
View ArticleMan Smuggles 7 Snakes in His Jacket
A Tyler snake expert pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to smuggling seven Peruvian snakes into the United States by concealing them underneath his jacket. William Lamar, 63, was caught with the...
View ArticleWawa Enters Cigarette Tax Fray
Wawa is circulating literature that raises concerns about a proposal to tax cigarettes in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's City Council voted last week to impose a new $2 tax on every pack of cigarettes,...
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