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WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 March 12, 2016

This used to be a walk that you could do a it loan but probably in the past five years i would never ever go alone. You always have to go with somebody. Which is sad. Reporter meghan meyer and robin richie out walking the dog near Pennypack Park when they heard what happened. This is a sketch of the man police say walked up behind the 22yearold victim. Covered her mouth and dragged her into the woods. Police say he then put duct tape over the victims mouth, bound her wrists and ankles, then physically and sexually assaulterred her. You wouldnt think in this area, too, because where the woods are here, theres a drop off. Its not like he could just kind of hide behind a tree like theres areas where hed actually have to climb up a hill. Reporter another woman out walking tonight didnt want to show her face but says she is concerned. 11 30 at night. Oh, wow. Because i know there is people that, like, run around 9 00 oclock, 10 00 oclock and i would never do that. Heres another look at the sketch of the suspect. Police are urging women to be aware while walking in the area. You know i walk the park all the time. I always do it with a dog, with mace, with another person. Reporter and back here live, you saw the sketch. What it doesnt show is that police say the suspect has a tattoo of a heart with tribal symbols around it that tattoo is on his chest. Dawn . Shawnette, thank you. A Philadelphia Police officer is sent to the hospital after hes struck by a car. Authorities say that officer was on bike patrol when he was hit along the 3900 block of whitaker avenue. Skyfox over that scene just after the officer was taken to Temple University hospital. Police tell us he should be okay. Preliminary reports say the driver of the car did stop at the scene. A 38yearold man is shot in the head tonight in brewery town. Skyfox over the scene at 29th and flores streets just after sick clog. Police say the victim is in serious condition. The search is on tonight for the shooter. You decide 2016 a wild seen tonight at a planned donald trump rally. The situation getting so chaotic in chicago tonight, that trump postponed the event. It was all over security concerns inside the a rona. Take look. Things got very violent tonight inside the rally on campus the university of illinois. Things got so out of hand between Trump Supporters and protesters the event was postponed shut down and everyone was told to clear out. Police he is cored several people away once outside some people even blocked traffic on a busy highway. We do not know yet if anyone was arrested or if anyone was injured. Well, we are continuing to enjoy above average temperatures for the beginning of march. Last few days feeling a lot like beach weather. Lets take live look down the shore to sea isle tonight. Its definitely cooling down some out there. But still plenty of people in center city who decided to leave a jackets at home tonight. Good night to dine elfresco. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams to tell fuss this warm air will stick around. Boy, its been nice, scott. Reporter it really has. High temperature today 69 degrees. Its going to be little chilly tonight. For the upcoming weekend it looks like well keep above average temperatures. Live look outside our studios right now along market street, 56 degrees. Thats above the average high for this time of year which is 51, and winds are out of the north around 8 miles per hour. We have 49 in dover. 53 degrees currently in wilmington. Upper 40s in pottstown. A chilly 38 degrees right now in the pocono mountains. So mostly clear skies for tonight. Its chilly. 37 degrees in the suburbs. 42 degrees in the city. We saw a little bit of rain early this morning. So dry conditions for now. But our next rain chance off to the west. Theyve seen devastating floo flooding toward sections along louisiana as well as mississippi and the gulf coast, but what to expect for us, were looking at clear and chilly conditions overnight, looks like a mild weekend. Well talk about the spring forward forecast and once again tracking that rain, the second half of the weekend into monday. Also, we have new information about what to expect sunday for the st. Patricks day parade. Well have that coming up. Back to you. All right, thanks scott. New Jersey Transit rail commuters wont have to worry about how theyll get to work on monday. A strike has been averted. The Union Representing rail workers say theyve reached attentive agreement with new Jersey Transit avoiding a strike that could have affected more than a hundred thousand riders. Governor Chris Christie says the agreement should shot result in fair hike or service cuts. What started out as a kidnapping investigation turns into something much different. This is the bus at the center of many questions tonight. Police say a driver cut off the septa bus and smashed a window. A woman riding on the bus, jumped off and witnesses say that driver of the car hit her and then forced her into the vehicle. That woman wasnt missing long, though. Fox 29s bruce gordon has the bizarre details. Reporter hours after the incident, septa bus riders along the southbound boulevard were still shaking their heads. A lot of crazy people on this route and everything, you know. Reporter you never know whats going happen. You dont. Something happen like this to this poor. Reporter police spent the predawn hours combing this septa bus for clues. Trying to sort out the mystery of what happened and why. They say a 22yearold philadelphia woman was a board the southbound route around 2 00 a. M. When the bus driver noticed he was being followed. Around the 4600 block of the boulevard, a man got out, yelled something at the woman and punched the side window shattering the glass. The bus driver took off. Police lieutenant dennis rosenbaum. The girl makes comments this guy is crazy. So obviously she knew who he was. Reporter just few blocks south at a regular bus stop, the man in the car was again ready to pounce. He cuts the bus off. Stops direct until front of him and theres a bus stop there. Theres people ready to get on the bus and the girl demanded to get off the bus. So thats when she gets off the bus and shes assaulted and she was forcibly put into the car. Reporter police viewed the incident as an abduction. They dusted the bus for fingerprints and recovered Security Camera footage. But around 8 30 a. M. , the woman appeared out of nowhere at northeast detectives to say she had neither been assaulted nor abducted. She refused to answer any further questions and several hours later, was taken to her mothers home by a detective. Shes telling the bus driver that this guy is crazy but she willingly gets off the bus knowing what she could be in for in terms of an altercation or at least an interaction with this guy . Yes. Reporter what do you make of that . I dont understand it. She could have stayed on the bus. Reporter attacker described as black man in his mid 20 20s, thin build, clean shaven driving a pontiac bonneville with delaware temporary plates. He could be charged with assault in this case but without cooperation from the alleged victim its not clear what kind of case could be made. In lawn crest, Bruce Gordon Fox 29 news. And now to a story youll see only on fox 29. A 10yearold little bill facing charges for taking a beebee gun to school to an elementary school. The child showed classmates the gun in the lunch room at william cramp elementary yesterday and then according to School Officials he started shooting. Were told three students in fact were hit. They suffered cuts and bruises. The mother of one of the children talked only to fox 29. She asked though we not show her face. Im asking that parents, we can all come together and push for more security, more School Police in these schools so that our children are safe. Because when we send our children out into these institutions for education, we expect that our children are going to be safe. The School District says the 10yearold was arrested and charged with simple assault and weapons offenses. A sickening case of animal cruelty is prompted a 5,000 reward to find the person who left a puppy to die in montgomery county. Female pitbull was found inside this crate in willow grove on wednesday. The metal crate was wrapped in mass tick and sealed with duct tape. The crate was sitting near welsh road and blair mill roads. Investigators say the dog was severely under weight and died from suffocation. Peta is offering reward for information that leads to an arrest. Jenkintown police need your help in finding this guy. He not only stole from the cash register, he stole the whole thing right off the counter of a chinese restaurant. It happened yesterday afternoon. Authorities say an employee at china king restaurant on york road fell asleep and when he woke up the register was gone. If you recognize the man from the surveillance pictures, please call jenkintown police. Skyfox over a schoolbus accident this afternoon in hammonton, new jersey. This is at route 30 and fairview avenue. Were told fortunately there were no students on the bus when it crashed. Now the bus driver was injured and was taken by state Police Helicopter to a nearby hospital. No word yet on what caused that accident. Amazingly no one hurt after this mini van crashes right into the front of a West Philadelphia home. Take look. This happened about 4 30 this afternoon near intersection of 45th street and why a luzyk avenue. No word yet from authorities op how no driver may have lot of control. Former first lady nan so reagan being remembered tonight for her fierce devotion to her husband dignitaries from the worlds of politics and entertainment came to say goodbyes in simi valley california. Foxs adam housely is there. Reporter songs, scripture and reflections as family, friends, political figures hollywood elite and the nation said a final goodbye to nancy reagan. Former canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney reading the late president s own words about his wife. Shes a wonderful person to sit by the fire with or to ride with or just to be with when the sun goes down and the stars come out. Ronald and nancy reagan were defined by their love for each other. Reporter former first lady eulogized by former reagan adviser and confidant james baker reagans daughter patti davis and son ron. All recounted nancys drive, strength and love for her husband. My parents were two half of a circle. Closed tight around world in which their love for each other was the only sustainence they needed while they might venture and include others in their orbit no one cruel you truly crossed the boundary into the space they held as theirs. They were co equals. They complimented one another. Individually they may have gone far but together they could and did go anywhere. Reporter former first lady once again be by her husbands side in a private sundown ceremony and while she intimate was involved in planning this day, her staff add add special tribute. Reporter a lone bagpiper the same one who honored her husband here nearly 12 years ago. In simi valley, california, adam housely fox news. Something only 11 other High School Students in the world have pulled off a perfect test score. Coming up well take you inside the numbers behind this young man as mazing academic accomplishments. Voters head to the polls in a week that could be the most important yet in the primaries. But some voters are saying the candidates dont care about them. So why should they care . Hes known for turning bad dogs into good ones. Why is the dog whisperer being to New Castle County men under arrest after cops say they caught the two in the middle of a drug deal. Authorities arresting 37yearold michael deal and 29yearold joshua shorts according to investigators officers witnessed the two meet Exchange Money and drugs. Search of schwartz car uncovered 10 glass vials of liquid codeine also known as sis soar. Officer also found 500 bags of heroin in deals car. Both men from newark are facing charges tonight. It doesnt happen very often. But when it does, its pretty special. A Delaware County student gets a perfect score on the college ap calculus scam. Fox 29s Joanne Pileggi talked to this young man and his very proud family to night. I got called down to my principals office. Reporter did you think you were in trouble. Yeah. I didnt know what was wrong. I was pretty scared. It was highly improbable that senior Jon Josh Kushner would be in trouble. In fact it was quite the opposite. To get a perfect score on the ap exam is a phenomenal feat. Over 300,000 students take the ap exam for calculus ap every year in the entire world and we found out that 12, just 12 in the whole world got perfect score. Reporter true enough john answered every single one of the highly sophisticated calculus questions and he got everyone right. Its like pretty overwhelming and unexpected and pretty cool. He learns the one time. He never asks for help. I really dont think weve had many tutoring sessions at all. Reporter johns father could have helped. Hes a math teacher. Do you think you can score perfectly on that . I dont think i can honestly. I dont think i can do it under the time constraints that he had. Reporter john is a gifted student runs Cross Country and has talent beyond his 17 years. He interned for the navy last summer. A lot of my spare time i did Computer Science Like Software development, software engineering. Reporter john and his family just learned about the super academic achievement after he sent in his college applications. So he emailed them with his news. The entire ridley community, Ridley High School and everybody in the area is so proud of john. Were excited for him. Reporter because john has taken so many ap courses, he already has some 20 college credits. By the way drexel is one of nine universities where he has applied and his principle says any of the elite schools would be lucky to get him. In university city, im joanne pell will he gee, fox 29 news. Villanova wildcats heading to the finals of the big east tournament. Chris jenkins leading all scorers tonight. 21 points as villanova beat providence 7668 in a semi finals. Wildcats will be in the championship Game Tomorrow Night 5 30. You can catch that game right here on fox 29. Sean bell is live at Madison Square garden in new york for us tonight. Providence got this one close there, sean. Reporter yeah, chris, it was real close. Closer than what villanova actually wanted. At first you thought nova was going to stretch out, make an easy one, but providence makes a big big time run and thats where the hard toughness and grittiness came fromville notify v Ryan Arcidiacono jumps into the stands. Daniel comes in gets bigtime buckets at the end and they actually get it done. They move on to the big east championship game. Affidavit wards i talked to jay wright about the toughness that this team displayed against a team that is also going to the tournament. When you get to this point, you got to have mental toughness that. Game took a lot of mental toughness. I felt providence was great. Ben tell fouled it looked like it would be over they step it up and came harder at us. We took a punch there and came back. Great College Basketball game. Was that not a learning, growing, type of game . This the nc this is what the ncaa tournament. Youre playing a Tournament Team and thats what you have to do. Take a punch, punch right back. Exactly. You got to handle everything that comes at you. You know, we got foul trouble. Ben tell, both our big guys got in foul tree. Hart got in foul trouble. Culling off the bench injured. You got to survive. Like you said its a great learning experience for our gu guys. You said ben tell. I know he got in some foul trouble. Still for the most part great d besides a couple great defense by you guys. Talk about your defense and being able to hold two of their big studies to single digit points. We played them a number of times and he had 38 last night. He had 31 the last time we played. So that was the best job weve done on ben tell and dun inform. Glad it came here i hope they both go to the nba we wont have to play them again. Report roar hold up jay. You might see prof den in the ncaa tournament. You never know. You might have to face them for a fourth time. Now, villanova on to the big east championship game theyll face either xavier or seton hall that. Game at half time right now. If they face xavier, that game will be for a number one seed in the tournament and to play at the barclay center. So it could be huge. That game will be big tomorrow to be a number one seed. Dawn back to you. All right, sean, thank you. Some call it the Academy Awards of football its happening tonight in atlantic city. The 79th annual Maxwell Football Club awards gala underway at the tropicana resort and casino. It recognizes and honors those who play and coach football from the high school to professional level. This years honorees include cam newton and ron rivera of the carolina panthers. A lot of big names down there. There have been a lot of warnings about places to avoid if you dont want the zika vir virus. Well now hear where doctors say is safe from the virus carrying mosquitoes. And what would sane pattis be without authentic music. Our bob kelly tries his hand at an instrument that takes a lot of wind. Now with tomorrows traffic heres bob kelly. Good evening, everybody. The Delaware Avenue ramp to aramingo and i95 in shut down mode for the next six months. So watch for a loft have a volume in front of the casino. This weekend the regatta taking over the kelly drive, Martin Luther king drive closed to volk traffic and the big day sunday the st. Patricks day parade on the parkway. Hopefully well see you

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