Officials: Man, 27, fatally shot in North Philadelphia

An employee gets a bag of popcorn for a customer at the AMC Lincoln Square 13 movie theater in New York (Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images AMC Entertainment wants Americans to snack on its popcorn while sitting at home.CEO Adam Aron tweeted Tuesday that he had "yet another meeting" taste-testing recipes for microwaveable and ready-to-eat AMC Theatres Perfectly Popcorn. The world's largest cinema operator hopes to roll out the new popcorn product nationally in the U.S.

Philadelphia police investigate the fatal shooting of a man in North Philadelphia. NORTH PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police are investigating a homicide that took the life of a man in North Philadelphia.Just after 3:30 Saturday afternoon, 22nd District police were called to the 2500 block of North Chadwick on the report of a person shot, officials said.When police arrived on the scene, they found a man who sustained a gunshot wound in the buttocks.Shell casings at the fatal North Philadelphia shooting scene show how many shots were fired.

Florida told the Justice Department on Saturday to provide her with more specific information about the classified records removed from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate and said it was her "preliminary intent" to appoint a special master in the case.The two-page order from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon signals that she’s inclined to grant a request from Trump’s lawyers, who this week asked for the appointment of an independent special master to oversee the review the records taken from Mar-a-Lago and identify any that may be protected by executive privilege, and to ensure the return of any documents outside the scope of the search warrant.Former U.S.

A sign stands at the main entrance to the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009.

Philadelphia police investigate the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man in Kensington. KENSINGTON - A 19-year-old man was shot in the chest and killed in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood Saturday.According to officials, 24th District officers were called to the 1800 block of East Orleans Street Saturday afternoon, a little after 2:15, on the report of gunshots.Responding officers found the victim, a 19-year-old man, inside a building suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest.Medics rushed the man to Temple University Hospital, where he died a short time later.Police are actively investigating the scene.

OCEAN COUNTY, N.J. - A triple shooting that left one man dead and two others injured is under investigation in Ocean County.Police reportedly found three victims when they responded to reports of gunfire near a shopping center on the 1700 block of Hooper Avenue in Toms River around 1:20 a.m.

HAMILTON, Ohio - An Ohio man is facing sexual assault and attempted kidnapping charges after reportedly grabbing a 6-year-old girl and trying to kidnap her from her front yard.Video shows the child taking out the trash when a man, later identified as 33-year-old Deric McPherson, approaches her and grabs her. He then walks away briefly but turns around and grabs her by the hand, then tries to pull her away.The child’s mother told the WLWT that she heard a "blood-curling" scream before her daughter ran inside and told her someone touched her private parts and tried to kidnap her.RELATED: Ohio man accused of killing 4 people says it was 'an easy decision'Her parents first tried chasing McPherson on foot, but then her father got in his car and pursued McPherson until police could arrest him.

AUSTIN, Texas - March for Our Lives is again gathering at the steps of the Texas State Capitol demanding action on gun safety in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas mass shooting.The organization is rallying with the parents whose children were killed in the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School, as well as survivors from the 2018 mass shooting at Santa Fe High School and youth activists from across Texas.The rally is to urge Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to call a special session immediately and to raise the minimum age to purchase an AR-15 to 21. "Three months since the horrifying and preventable tragedy at Robb Elementary School, Governor Abbott still hasn’t taken action to keep kids safe and prevent gun violence," said the organization in a release.

PHILADELPHIA - At least six shootings rang out Friday night into Saturday morning as another summer weekend in Philadelphia became a violent one.The violence began with a fatal shooting in the city's Kingsessing neighborhood when police say a 31-year-old man was killed. He was shot at least four times on the 5400 block of Chester Avenue around 10 p.m. With the next 30 minutes, police say two more people became the victims of two separate shootings.

PHILADELPHIA - An officer's response was cut short Saturday morning when police say he struck a car on his way.The crash happened around 11 a.m.

CARLISLE, Pa. - Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, three years before retiring from the U.S. Army, posed in a Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College.The photo, which Reuters said Friday it obtained after a request under the Freedom of Information Act, shows Mastriano in the uniform in a 2013-14 portrait for the Department of Military Strategy, Plans and Operations, where he worked until he retired in 2017.

TRENTON, N.J. - Gas prices have dropped below $4 for the first time since March amid stable crude oil prices near the end of the summer driving season. AAA Mid-Atlantic says the average price of a gallon of regular gas in New Jersey on Friday was $3.99, down 11 cents from last week. The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline was $3.86, down five cents from last week. Analysts say easing oil prices have offset rising demand and tightened supplies. But they warn that hurricane season may bring storms that could disrupt oil production in the Gulf of Mexico and impact large coastal refineries.

PHILADELPHIA - Don't get the pumpkin spice out just yet, sweater weather is certainly not here yet!Summer is holding on for yet another week as the heatwaves continue for the Delaware Valley.A hot and humid weekend is in the forecast with highs reaching 90 degrees both days ahead of higher temperatures this week.Very scattered storms are possible for some Saturday and Sunday, but most of the region will stay dry this weekend. ___SATURDAY: A storm. High: 90, Low: 74SUNDAY: A storm.

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. - Riley Gracely and his family were looking around the piles of dirt and gravel at Palmetto Fossil Excursions in Summerville when he saw something that looked like a tooth.The 8-year-old Lebanon, Pennsylvania, boy started digging in the soil, clay and gravel and pulled out a huge fossilized tooth from the long-extinct angustiden shark species, that was 22 million to 28 million years old."He got lucky," Riley’s dad Justin Gracely said in a phone call Monday.Sky Basak, who owns Palmetto Fossil with her husband Josh, called it a "once in a lifetime find."The tooth measured 4.75 inches — about the size of Riley’s hand.The Gracely family was on their annual vacation to Myrtle Beach and made the 2.5-hour trip south to Summerville to go to Palmetto Fossil, a 100-acre pit rich with prehistoric material including all manner — and parts — of sea creatures.South Carolina has many such locations, buried deep in the earth along the coastal plain, where ocean and rivers ebbed and flowed for millions of years.Gracely, 40, said he has been visiting Myrtle Beach since he was 5 and he and his mother, a microbiologist, scoured the sand for shark’s teeth.Two years ago, when Palmetto had just opened, Gracely saw something on Instagram about it and made the trek. This summer was their third visit.Last year, older son Collin, 10, found a 4-inch megalodon tooth, a species that came after the angustiden and the largest fish that ever lived, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

DOVER, Del. - A Delaware judge ordered both Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk to turn over more information to opposing lawyers in their tussle over Musk's agreed-to-then-abandoned $44 billion deal to acquire the social platform.Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick on Thursday ordered Twitter to provide Musk’s attorneys more data regarding the company’s estimates that less than 5% of the accounts on its platform are fake.

PHILADELPHIA - Oneil Cruz’s bat slipped out of his hands and went flying into the stands after the Pittsburgh Pirates rookie struck out in the third inning Friday night against Philadelphia.That's when things got sticky.The lumber landed in Jen Mehall's lap behind the Phillies dugout. Mehall, a Pirates fan, was thrilled to get the souvenir — especially after it dinged her in the leg and lip.

BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. - An early morning crash in Bucks County sent one car flying into a local flower shop Saturday.Officials say two cars, a Mitsubishi and a Honda, collided on Street Road in Bensalem around 1:30 p.m.After the initial crash, the Mitsubishi ended up slamming into the entrance of "A Fashionable Flower Boutique."Video from the scene showed the car on its side, with its rear up against the shop door.MORE HEADLINES:It is unclear what led to the crash, and the conditions of the drivers was not immediately known.PECO Gas was also on the scene to secure a reported leak caused by the crash,

Carlsey and Caden during their Olive Garden photoshoot. (Hunter Lashea Photography)A Tennessee couple who went viral on TikTok for taking their engagement photos outside of an Olive Garden has been gifted with a free honeymoon to Italy by the popular restaurant franchise.  On August 24, Carlsey Bibb and Caden Mills were invited to be on the "Good Morning America" show to talk about what they thought would be their experience with virality after their Olive Garden engagement shoot, but they got a much bigger surprise. During their interview, the couple was surprised with the free trip to Italy in front of the very restaurant where their photo shoot took place. "So it’s just been surreal but we’re super thankful for everyone that’s reached out to talk to us," Caden told FOX TV Stations.  Carlsey and Caden got engaged during a family beach trip in Daytona, Florida, on July 2.

heart attack; an unfortunate tragedy that hit Eastwood "like a tonne of bricks". Forty at the time of his father's death, the award-winning performer decided to live more consciously. "I try to watch [my] intake of saturated fats," Eastwood told GQ magazine.

PHILADELPHIA - Families with students at two Philadelphia charter schools are now searching for new schools to enroll their children. Parents with children enrolled at the Universal Bluford and Universal Daroff Charter Schools saw a post on Instagram that said the schools would not open for the first day of school set for Monday. The Universal Daroff Charter School will close immediately, leaving families scrambling to find other schools for their children three days before the start of the school year. Another school, the Universal Bluford Charter School, will close at the e PREVIOUS: Future of 2 Philadelphia charter schools unclear, creating confusion for familiesThe Instagram post read, "This is an important message to let you know that the Daroff Charter School and Bluford Charter School will not be starting school for students on Monday, August 29, as previously planned.

A 10-year-old boy from Oklahoma is being hailed a hero after he saved his mom from drowning when she suffered a seizure in their backyard pool.

CALGARY, Alberta - Men were asked to test their threshold for pain using a machine that simulates menstrual cramping, an experience hosted by a company that aims to "remove the stigma" of periods. The period pain simulator was used last month at Calgary Stampede, an annual rodeo, exhibition, and festival held July 7 through 16 in Calgary, a city located in the western Canadian province of Alberta. The company, called somedays, offers period pain relief products and representatives attended the event to use the machine on willing participants. It later posted a series of period simulator videos on the somedays TikTok account, which has garnered millions of views.The participants are pictured testing out their pain thresholds with a machine that simulates menstrual cramps during the Calgary Stampede, an annual rodeo, exhibition, and festival in July in Canada.

PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia food delivery driver says he out of a job after his expensive bike was stolen while he was picking up orders. Dajon Murray told FOX 29 that he was making his last stop of the night at the Wawa on 37th and Spruce streets in University City early Friday morning. Murray said when he left his bike near the front of the store and when he turned around to pickup the order someone stole it. Wawa employees shared surveillance video with Murray that he says captures the bike thief in the act. Dajon Murray said he was getting a pickup order at a Philadelphia Wawa when someone stole his expensive electric bike. Murray said the electric bike costed more than $600 and he only had it for about a month.  "Soon as I turned around the corner, I just saw my bike missing," Murray told FOX 29's Shawnette Wilson. Murray said the electric bike costed more than $600 and he only had it for about a month. "It gets around pretty good, I would say, so it was great for work," Murray said.

MEDFORD, N.J. - Oh deer. A South Jersey community is doing whatever it can to help an animal that’s become a town mascot, of sorts.An update from the original story Friday evening is the deer no longer appears to be in distress. Lily Snow sent a new photo of what looks to be the deer showing it is free of the planter.Cell phone video from Medford resident Ryan Horner shows him getting oh so close to helping a female deer who, somehow, got a tomato cage and planter stuck on her head, while, most likely, looking for something to eat.A deer in distress in Burlington County has been enough to bring a community together to help protect her until she can be saved."She must have stuck her head in too far and it’s, literally, horizontally around her neck and she’s just lugging this planter," Medford resident Lily Snow explained.When Snow saw a Facebook post Monday of the deer in distress, she jumped into action, reaching out to everyone and anyone.

DREXEL HILL, Pa. - Authorities say a fight at a high school football game just outside of Philadelphia sparked false reports of a shooting and sent fans and players running for safety. The Upper Darby Police Department said in a tweet that a physical fight broke out at Saturday night's matchup between Upper Darby High School and Monsignor Bonner. Amid the commotion, some believed they heard shots being fired which caused players and fans to run for safety. A video tweeted by Philadelphia Sports Digest captured crowds of rushing across the field, towards the exit. Police said reports of a shooting at the game were false and that officers were in the process of clearing the area. No arrests were reported immediately following the incident and police did not say what sparked the initial fight.The game was canceled with Monsignor Bishop leading 6-0 in the third quarter.

OCEAN CITY, N.J. - For a change, the ocean water is warm down at the Jersey shore.It's so warm, it set a record in Atlantic City, where the water temperature soared to the mid-80s on Thursday and early Friday. This weekend, your Weather Authority says to plan for ocean water in the upper 70s.The water is much, much warmer for a few reasons.South and east of our shores, the Atlantic Ocean has been much warmer than average for a while.Usually, 80-degree ocean water stops around the Outer Banks in North Carolina.

OCEAN CITY, N.J. - Friday nights are exciting again as high school football is back in play.The Philadelphia Eagles are keeping true with a tradition and helping some high schoolers for the annual Battle at the Beach.Battle at the Beach. It’s all going down at Carey Stadium in Ocean City.Top high school football teams from all over New Jersey and Pennsylvania are taking part in 11 games scheduled for the weekend.Battle at the Beach.

BOSTON - In the nick of time, the Boston Police Department’s harbor patrol unit rescued a father and son who were desperately clinging to a cooler at the outermost edge of Boston Harbor after their lobster boat sank.Officers Stephen Merrick and Garrett Boyle responded to a call for a boat taking on water at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday near Graves Light Station, police said in a statement.

George Foreman attends the Hublot x WBC "Night of Champions" Gala at the Encore Hotel on May 03, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Roger Kisby/Getty Images for Hublot) LOS ANGELES - Two women have filed lawsuits accusing former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman of sexually abusing them in the 1970s, according to media reports.Separate lawsuits were filed by the women, who are both in their 60s, under the pseudonyms Gwen H.

PHILADELPHIA - The mother of 8-year-old Fanta Bility shared memories of her daughter who was killed by police gunfire while leaving a high school football game nearly one-year ago. "Fanta was a giver, she was so nice to friends, sometimes she would take food and give it to friends, and clothes, she was so happy," Tenneh Kromah said.Authorities say on Aug. 27, Bility and her family were leaving the Academy Park High School football field among a crowd of fans when a shooting between two young men erupted.

PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Police Department is reforming its cold case investigation branch that was forced into dormancy as homicides surged across the city and stretched resources thin. "It was very unfortunate, but the cold cases ended up going by the wayside," Captain Jason Smith from the department's homicide unit told FOX 29's Kelly Rule. There are currently more than 4,000 unsolved murders in Philadelphia dating back to 1990, and just last year the city set a historically bloody benchmark of 562 killings. Smith said as homicides continued to pour in, he was forced to begin assigning investigators from the Cold Case Unit to probe active homicides. MORE LOCAL HEADLINES"We will continue to work those investigations, but in order to do that effectively I need a team of investigators dedicated to that purpose; to work on cold case investigations," Smith said. The department's revamped Cold Case Unit currently consists of two teams and four investigators, but Smith expects to double the unit's manpower by mid-September. Together, the team will work off tips and pull old case files to meticulously go through the details of the thousands of unsolved murders.

Philadelphia police investigate a shooting in Olney that critically injured a 21-year-old man and wounded a 23-year-old woman. OLNEY - A double shooting has injured a woman and critically wounded a man in Philadelphia's Olney neighborhood.According to officials, police responded to the 400 block of West Nedro Avenue Friday afternoon, around 2:30, on the report of gunshots.When they arrived, officers found two gunshot victims, a 23-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to her abdomen and a 21-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds to his body, as well as one to his head.

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Two rare orange lobsters were found in the same shipment to Whitney's Seafood Market in Hudson, Florida. HUDSON, Fla. - Whitney's Seafood Market in Hudson gets a shipment of lobsters delivered twice a week from Maine.But Monday's delivery came with a rare surprise: not one, but two orange-colored lobsters.The pair stood out easily among the rest of the pack.Most lobsters are a muddy color, which helps them blend into their environment and protect them from predators.

An illustrative image of a person holding a medical syringe and a Covid-19 vaccine vial in front of the Moderna logo displayed on a screen. On Wednesday, January 12, 2021, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

LOS ANGELES - It’s a four-legged Cinderella story.  The mom of abused beagle puppies was rescued by royalty... Prince Harry and Meghan Markle…the Duchess of Sussex."She was so awesome.

School District of Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA - A strike by service employees within the School District of Philadelphia has been averted as a deal has tentatively been reached.Workers represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ initially voted to authorize a strike August 19th.At issue was whether safety demands for the workers had been met and union leaders said those demands were lacking. MORE HEADLINES:Their current contract is set to expire August 31st.The union and the district were able to reach agreement on these issues:The union represents 2,000 public school service workers, including bus drivers, bus attendants, bus mechanics, cleaners, building engineers, school service workers and others.32BJ Vice President Gabe Morgan said: "We have a deal! We got a deal that gives our members historic pay increases, while giving them the training they need to keep themselves and students safe. This contract honors the enormous contributions and sacrifices that 32BJ school workers have made, including risking their lives throughout the pandemic.

The prevalence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in the United States declined during the COVID-19 pandemic, but inpatient mortality and treatment costs were higher, according to a paper published yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.Using data from the Premier Healthcare Database, researcher

Three newly published studies in Open Forum Infectious Diseases detail COVID-19 deaths in 2020 and 2021, including one describing an increase in US hospital deaths during a community surge, one finding a rise in the risk of dying at home in North Carolina, and one showing a reduced risk of hospital death in New York City in the second pandemic wave.

WILMINGTON, Del. - Delaware State Police has launched an investigation after a man was shot while driving on I-495. Authorities say the incident happened early Friday morning, just before 3:00 a.m. According to police, the man, 20, was driving south on I-495 at Terminal Avenue in the center lane when a person in a car on his right side opened fire. Multiple shots were fired and the man was struck on the lower part of his body, police say. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESAccording to officials, the man managed to drive away and get off the highway to I-295 in the area of Rt.

PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Police Department's Homicide Unit is searching for three suspects wanted in connection with a fatal South Philadelphia triple shooting. Police say the shooting happened on the 3500 block of Warnock Street on August 5 at 10:30 p.m.

WASHINGTON - Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate early this year contained documents with classification markings, including at the top secret level, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday explaining the justification for this month's search of the property.The 32-page affidavit, even in its heavily redacted form, offers the most detailed description to date of the government records being stored at Trump's Mar-a-Lago property long after he left the White House and reveals the gravity of the government's concerns that the documents were there illegally.Mobile app users, click here to view the redacted affidavit"The government is conducting a criminal investigation concerning the improper removal and storage of classified information in unauthorized spaces, as well as the unlawful concealment or removal of government records," an FBI agent wrote on the first page of the affidavit in seeking a judge's permission for a warrant to search the property.The affidavit does not provide new details about the 11 sets of classified records recovered during the Aug. 8 search at Mar-a-Lago but instead concerns a separate batch of 15 boxes that the National Archives and Records Administration retrieved from the home in January.In those boxes, according to the affidavit, officials located 184 documents bearing classification markings, including 25 documents marked as top secret.

Philadelphia police investigate a fatal shooting in Eastwick. EASTWICK - A man has been fatally shot in Eastwick.Officials say the shooting happened on the 2800 block of South 81st Street Friday afternoon, just after 12:30.Responding officers found a man in his late 20s suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in his head and over his body when they arrived on scene.Police rushed the man to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he died.Authorities are actively investigating the shooting, though no arrests have been made.

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Officials with the Camden County Health Department have announced a probable case of monkeypox associated with a camp in Gloucester Township. This brings the county's total to 23 cases of monkeypox. According to health department officials, a lab test with a positive result was reported on Wednesday. After the positive result came back, the department launched an investigation per authorities. Officials did not say if the person who tested positive was a camper or staff. RELATED HEADLINESThe person is isolating and officials say individuals who were in close contact have been notified. The county has also scheduled a post-exposure prophylaxis vaccine clinic for those who were determined to have intermediate exposure. Officials are reminding people to be vigilant to help limit the spread of the virus. "Although this case is concerning, health officials on a county and statewide level have acted quickly to mitigate the further spread of this virus. For the public, we need residents to be vigilant about exposures and limiting the spread of this virus," Camden County Health Officer and Public Health Coordinator Dr.

Moderna is suing rival vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech, alleging the partners infringed on its patents in developing their shot for Covid-19.