Police: Wanted man hid under blanket to avoid arrest

POTTSTOWN, Pa. - Firefighters and emergency crews responded to an apparent explosion at a property in Montgomery County Thursday night.The explosion happened on the 400 block of North Washington Street in Pottstown just before 8:30 p.m. Photos posted to social media by reporter Evan Brandt show a massive field of debris. Brandt reports that adjacent homes were also damaged. Authorities have not reported any injuries.

Today we are reporting 6,862 community cases, 350 current hospitalisations and 25 deaths. 

monkeypox in Canada, a top health official said Thursday, but people should keep their distance from others to avoid catching the virus.Deputy chief public health officer Dr. Howard Njoo said because the virus “doesn’t discriminate” and can be spread through close contact with an infected person, people can avoid infection by “maintaining physical distance from people outside their homes.”“As well, wearing masks, covering coughs and sneezes, and practicing frequent handwashing continues to be important, especially in public spaces,” he told reporters.

Freeze frame from "Blood and Honey" featuring Pooh and Piglet and an unsuspecting victim. (Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios )Calling all horror fans! A Winnie-the-Pooh-themed horror movie called "Blood and Honey" is in the works so brace yourself to have one of your favorite childhood stories twisted with bloodshed and fear. Join Pooh and Piglet as they embark on a journey of life after Christopher Robin, though this is far less fairytale-like than Disney’s live-action "Christopher Robin," starring Ewan McGregor. While Disney was not involved in this particular production, the movie's premise still follows the classic characters Pooh and Piglet through the Hundred Acre Wood. In the movie, the pair of best friends scavenge for food which has become scarce following Christopher’s departure to college, according to Rhys Frake-Waterfield, writer, producer and director of the film. Freeze frame from "Blood and Honey" featuring Pooh and Piglet sitting by a camp fire.  (Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios )WATCH FREE ON TUBI: "Shirley Temple’s Storybook: Winnie the Pooh" The movie will only feature Pooh and Piglet and a piece of Eeyore because, well, they eat the lovable somber donkey. Christopher does return, however, only to find his friends are not how he left them as they’ve become feral, Frake-Waterfield told FOX TV Stations in an email. Upon seeing Christopher, Pooh and Piglet revert to their animal instincts and go on a rampage, attacking hikers and campers nearby their den of horrors. Freeze frame from "Blood and Honey" featuring Pooh standing menacingly in a walkway.  (Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios )WATCH FREE ON TUBI: Revisit A.A. Milne’s classic stories with "Fireside Reading of

The Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield has tested positive for COVID-19 while attending the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.

KENSINGTON - U.S. Marshal’s announce the arrest of a wanted fugitive in connection with a FedEx armed robbery that happened in February.Officials announced the arrest of 29-year-old Donte Edwards Thursday.

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday to console families and honor victims of Tuesday’s mass school shooting in which 19 children and two teachers were killed.The White House said the Bidens would "grieve with the community that lost 21 lives in the horrific" shooting at Robb Elementary School. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the president would meet with the community and religious leaders and victims' families.RELATED: Who is Salvador Ramos? What we know about Texas elementary school shooting suspectJean-Pierre, the parent of an elementary school student, delivered an impassioned plea at the White House for lawmakers to come together to address gun violence."These were elementary school kids, they should be losing their first teeth not losing their lives," she said.Sheriff crime scene tape is seen outside of Robb Elementary School as State troopers guard the area in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022.

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND BEACH SAFETYAccording to the American Lifeguard Association, it could even prevent about a third of the 309,000 pools across the country from opening. It also leat fewer staffed lifeguard towers at recreational beaches."Ever since lifeguarding started, we’ve had difficulty filling the ranks because it’s a tough job to obtain," said Wyatt Werneth, the association’s national spokesman.It takes very rigorous physical training, first aid and trauma training and a lot of tentative-type skills such as watching the water.City officials in Overland Park, Kansas, were forced to close two of their five outdoor pools amid the staffing shortages.Lifeguard Kelly Thune, a junior at the U of MN., kept a watchfull eye on the swimmers in Como Pool.

(Photo courtesy of Ricky Ruble)  Later Thursday, Carnival released a new statement and said it was sending one of its other cruise ships – Carnival Conquest – to Grand Turks to pick up the 2,504 passengers and 972 crew members who were on Carnival's Freedom cruise ship.As a result, Conquest's scheduled May 27 cruise out of Miami has been canceled.

HARRISBURG - With just 910 votes separating the two leading candidates in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate, counties were preparing Thursday to start the recount between celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick.At least seven counties — Bedford, Clinton, Crawford, Lehigh, Montour, Tioga and Warren — said they will begin Friday, while most other counties said they will begin next week.

Netflix show , opened up about her ongoing battle in a video on Instagram. She told fans she had been "struggling" and had been "really unwell for a really long time". She added that she now had a diagnosis and was going to take a break from her career to look after herself.

BBC One show will see Perkins explore the truth about her orphaned grandfather and a great grandfather interned as an "enemy alien" during the First World War. It was through filming another TV show during her career that Perkins first found out about her benign tumour which went on to cause "epic destruction" in her body. Although non-cancerous and only the size of a grain of rice, it was the way she was told about the tumour and the way it was reported in the media after she had found out that made the ordeal all the more difficult for the star.

VINELAND, N.J. - Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a New Jersey teenager who police believe was killed by someone he knew. Officers from the Vineland Police Department were called to the 1800 block of Delsea Drive for reports of a shooting. The Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office said the 15-year-old victim was brought to a nearby hospital where he died. Investigators believe the shooting was not a "random act" and the young victim knew the perpetrator.The name of the victim was not released. AdvertisementInvestigators encourage anyone with information about the deadly shooting to contact the Vineland Police Department or the prosecutor's office.

CENTER CITY - The events in Ukraine have changed so many lives, including refugees brought to the Delaware Valley. Rittenhouse Women’s Wellness Center on Pine Street cares for dozens of patients every day and they’re taking on more, for free.CEO Bob Saltzman noticed a family friend hosting and helping refugees from Ukraine and quickly realized more help was needed, particularly for those needing medical attention who have just arrived in the states."We’ve been able to get the providers on board to see the patients, free of charge," Maria Daly, Clinical Manager with Rittenhouse, said.RELATED HEADLINES:The center works with Capsule Pharmacy and LabCorp to provide the necessary medications and blood work for those who have fled their war-ravaged homes.People like Ukrainians like Tetiana Stepsenko and her family.

Uvalde mass shooting on Tuesday, and her father tells Fox News Digital that the quick-thinking pre-teen is still shaken after having watched her teacher and classmates gunned down.Miah Cerrillo, 11, survived the shooting but watched her friends and teacher being killed, according to her aunt, Blanca Rivera, who spoke with Click 2 Houston.Cerrillo smeared blood on her face and went into survival mode after seeing her classmates shot to death, according to the report."My sister-in-law said is that [Miah] saw her friend full of blood, and she got blood and put it on herself," Rivera said. "My brother said she had bullet fragments in her back."TEXAS SCHOOL SHOOTING: LIVE UPDATESThe 11-year-old had seemed to be okay until Tuesday night when she got home, and then had a panic attack."Around midnight, my sister-in-law called me and she was just crying like, ‘I think it just hit Miah.

Uvalde mass shooting told a classroom of children that "it’s time to die," according to a fourth-grader who survived the attack. The chilling words allegedly uttered by Salvador Ramos inside Robb Elementary on Tuesday were revealed by a 9-year-old who spoke to KENS 5, describing how he hid under a table during the shooting rampage. RELATED: Who is Salvador Ramos? What we know about Texas elementary school shooting suspect"He shot the next person’s door. We have a door in the middle. He opened it.

The husband of one of the teachers killed in Tuesday’s mass shooting at a Texas elementary school has died of a heart attack, family members say.

CAMDEN, N.J. - After the mass shooting in the southern Texas elementary school, New Jersey announced schools will have extra police presence. But, in Camden County, will the extra presence be permanent?Students flooded out of Camden High School in the afternoon, waving signs in solidarity and sorrow for the children and teachers massacred in Texas."Are you concerned about your safety?" FOX 29’s Jeff Cole asked."So, yes, because now it’s easier to get a gun anywhere, same as the 18-year-old in Texas," 9th grade student Damian Irizarry replied.RELATED HEADLINES:Some 400 students attend Camden High and there are many doors in the building, students say.That fear, largely brought on by the slaughter in Texas, is why officials gathered on the steps of the high school."Our young people and their families deserve to know and to be assured that their students are safe each and every day," Camden City Schools Superintendent Katrina McCombs stated.For the rest of the school year, Camden Police say they’re teaming up with the Camden County sheriffs to strengthen security outside more than a dozen school buildings in the city."We’re going to have two or three officers at every school patrolling and walking beats, as well," Chief of Police Gabriel Rodriguez said.It’s a heavy lift in a city struggling with grinding poverty, but the chief says he’ll have at least one cop outside all schools when students and staff are there."Could your officers stop an 18-year-old with an AK-15?" Cole asked."I’m sure they can.

PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia elementary school said a child fired what they believe was a pellet gun into a crowd of students during afternoon recess.In a letter to families, Thomas Elementary school said the child is not a student at school. The students who were hit by the pellets were not seriously injured and received treatment from the school nurse, according to officials. Video of the incident that circulated on social media shows a child riding a hoverboard on the opposite side of a chain link from the students. The child is seen carrying what the school believes is a pellet gun.At one point in the video, the child points the pellet gun at the distraught group of students.

A teenage girl was molested by a yoga teacher after he invited her to a health spa for a massage.

High gas prices at a station on the corner of Valley View Street and Chapman Avenue in Garden Grove, CA, on Monday, March 7, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images) LOS ANGELES - To drive, or not to drive? This Memorial Day weekend, with surging gas prices that are redefining pain at the pump, that is the question for many Americans as a new COVID-19 surge also spreads across the country.For Marvin Harper, of Phoenix, his family’s weekend travel plans are a double punch to the wallet.

BOSTON - A new study finds that increased green spaces in cities could benefit a person’s health and subsequently reduce mortality rates among older adults. According to the study, published earlier this month in "Frontiers in Public Health," researchers found that between 34,000-38,000 deaths in people 65 and older could have been reduced between 2000 to 2019 if "greenness" increased by 0.1 units in U.S. metropolitan areas.In addition, approximately 15 to 20 deaths per 10,000 people in the age group could be reduced with an increase in vegetation.Researchers at Harvard and Boston University’s School of Public Health focused their analysis on 35 metropolitan cities, along with people aged 65 and older in order to more easily quantify the potential reductions in mortality in a generally vulnerable population.For the study, the team utilized publicly available population data from the U.S.

WASHINGTON - With mass shootings in Texas, New York and California fresh in Americans’ mind, the Supreme Court will soon issue its biggest gun ruling in more than a decade, one expected to make it easier to carry guns in public in some of the largest cities.Already in an uncomfortable spotlight over a leaked draft opinion that would overrule Roe v. Wade’s nationwide right to abortion, the justices also are facing a possible backlash from the guns case.

KENSINGTON - Philadelphia police are investigating a double shooting in the city’s Kensington neighborhood, that critically injured one man.Officials say police responded to the 3400 block of Kip Street Thursday afternoon, about 2:15, on the report of gunfire.Officers arrived to find a 32-year-old man shot four times. He was taken by medics to Temple University Hospital and placed in critical condition.MORE HEADLINES:A second 32-year-old man suffered a graze wound to the head.

health after experts noticed a change in his "gangster" appearance. The 14ft croc has become a popular hit with tourists and is known for his hardman exterior, but has since caused concern with his growing abscess.

As US COVID-19 cases continue to steadily rise, the White House today announced a new effort to make Pfizer's COVID-19 antiviral drug Paxlovid more accessible across the country.

FILE - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is seen in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.

A letter yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists shows homologous (same-vaccine) boosting for Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine recipients was significantly less effective than mix-and-match booster doses when the Omicron strain was predominant in the United States.Approximately 18 million Americans received the one-dose J&J vac

NJ officials say 21 men have been arrested in a sting targeting men who use social media to lure children for sex.  TRENTON, N.J. - Authorities say 21 men have been arrested in a sting known as "Operation Risky Business," which targeted predators who used social media to lure children for sex. The arrests were announced by New Jersey Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J.

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police say an arrest has been made in a deadly hit-and-run involving a dirt bike rider that left a 17-year-old boy dead.PREVIOUS: Teen skateboarder struck by dirt bike rider on Philadelphia street dies from injuriesOn Thursday, officials announced that Kevin Rubio, 19, turned himself in more than a week after striking the teen. He faces a number of charges including Accident Involving Death, Homicide by Vehicle, Involuntary Manslaughter and related charges. The incident occurred around 10:30 p.m. back on Sunday, May 15 in Philadelphia's Fairhill neighborhood.Police say Rubio was riding a dirt bike going eastbound on Allegheny Avenue at a high rate of speed and performing wheelies when the bike struck 17-year-old Jesus Gomez Rosario.Rosario, who was riding a skateboard at the time of the incident was taken to Temple University Hospital with severe injuries.

COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations related to the virus fell last week.The province’s weekly epidemiology update, released Thursday and covering May 15 to 21, shows 122 people with COVID-19 were hospitalized and six others with the virus died. COVID-19 deaths rise as hospitalizations drop in Manitoba In the previous week, officials reported 149 hospitalizations and 16 deaths.There was a slight uptick in the number of COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care units, with 21 reported last week, up from 16 May 8 to 14.The province’s weekly updates no longer give the total number of people currently in hospital or ICU as a result of COVID-19, reporting only how many new admissions occurred during the previous week.Manitoba’s total COVID-19 deaths recorded since March 2020 rose to 1,928 in the latest report — an increase of 15 over the previous week.

The Osbournes documentary first aired twenty years ago and gave us all an insight into the lives of rocker Ozzy Osbourne, manager-wife Sharon and their children Jack and Kelly.

Ray Liotta, the gruff blue-eyed actor who starred in movies like Goodfellas and Field of Dreams, has died at the age of 67.

Jeff Bridges is reflecting on the year that he called a “bizarre dream.” In a new interview with, the 72-year-old actor shared that he almost died after a battle with COVID-19, that was heightened due to his chemotherapy treatment -- after his diagnosis with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2020.  In October 2020, Bridges shared that during a workout, he felt something abnormal in his stomach. When he went to the doctors, it was revealed to be a 12 by 9-inch tumor. The actor said at the time that the «prognosis is good.» actor said he immediately started chemotherapy by infusion and oral chemo, which caused the tumor to shrink.

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A sick yoga teacher molested a teenage girl after he invited her to a health spa for a massage.

interview with People, the now-healthy 72-year-old said the last year and a half feels like “a bizarre dream” that he wasn’t sure he’d overcome. It all started when Bridges was doing a home workout and felt something unusual in his stomach. He would be diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.“I had a 12-by-9-inch tumor in my body.

This month’s digital currency crash in the wake of a US Fed rate hike featured a Terra quake that evoked talk of rules to help us tell flaky tokens apart. As a concept, crypto was unshaken

More than 12 people were vaccinated till late evening (7PM) on Thursday exceeding the total tally of vaccination coverage to over192.95 Crore so far,“ union health ministry said.

Jeff Bridges is thankful to be alive after surviving non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system, and COVID. In this week’s issue of People magazine, the Oscar winner detailed his difficult year and a half and how he "was pretty close to dying."  The 72-year-old’s terrifying health saga all started one morning while he was doing his usual exercises at home.The actor felt something strange in his stomach and was compelled to get it checked out by his doctor. "I had a 12-by-9-inch tumor in my body," Bridges recalled.

NEW YORK - Former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in New York state’s civil investigation into his business practices, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.A four-judge panel in the appellate division of the state’s trial court upheld Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron’s Feb. 17 ruling enforcing subpoenas for Trump and his two eldest children to give deposition testimony in Attorney General Letitia James' probe.Trump had appealed, seeking to overturn the ruling.

LOS ANGELES - Ellen DeGeneres brought her nearly two-decade daytime talk show to an end Thursday with a celebrity lovefest and a forceful assertion of her achievement as a gay woman daring to be herself.DeGeneres and guests Jennifer Aniston, Billie Eilish and Pink shared memories and affection as "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" concluded its Emmy-winning, 3,200-plus episode run that began in September 2003."Twenty years ago, when we were trying to sell the show, no one thought that this would work. Not because it was a different kind of show, but because I was different," DeGeneres said of the pushback from TV stations.When the syndicated show went on the air, she was prevented from saying the word "gay" or even the pronoun "we," DeGeneres said, since the latter would imply she had a partner.

A radical and 'healthy' change to our diet could be causing poor gut health, experts have claimed.

Buddy the cat with his new family.  (PSCPA)PHILADELPHIA - The cat that was the victim of an intentional dog attack in Philadelphia two months ago has finally found a place to call home. In March, two juveniles were caught on camera letting their dogs viciously attack the cat that was sitting on the front porch of a home in Frankford. Two juveniles, 12 and 17, are facing charges after authorities allege they intentionally allowed their dogs to attack a cat that was sitting on the porch of a home in Frankford. The cat, Buddy, suffered life-threatening injuries.The Pennsylvania SPCA shared a video of the incident showing two people walking their dogs when they spotted the cat, named Buddy, on the front porch of the home.

FILE IMAGE - Ray Liotta attends the 22nd Annual Newport Beach Film Festival as it presents Festival Honors & Variety's 10 Actors To Watch at The Balboa Bay Club And Resort on Oct. 24, 2021, in Newport Beach, California.

Ontario COVID numbers: 1,005 people in hospital, 154 in intensive care He said that the lease ends at the end of the month and the lack of demand combined with vaccines being widely available at doctor’s offices and pharmacies mean it is no longer necessary.“We no longer require large mass immunization sites to meet the needs of our residents,” Aoki explained.He noted that since it provided its first dose of COVID-19 vaccine on March 4, 2021, the clinic has provided more than 240,000 doses overall.The region will now turn its vaccination focus towards its mobile efforts as well as smaller clinics at 99 Regina St. in Waterloo and 30 Christopher Dr.