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New Jersey’s Adventure Aquarium welcomed its first blue penguin chick named Tater Tot — and wants the public to vote on what to name its second chick.

A far-right extremist who was “obsessed” with white nationalist Nick Fuentes was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol and directing a mob toward the office of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, where another rioter stole a laptop.

It’s a Friday morning and it shows for TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie. Watch the funny moment she shared with NBC10’s Erin Coleman and Brenna Weick.

An investigation is underway after a young boy was found naked inside a dog cage in a Philadelphia home, police said.

NBC10’s Katy Zachry is at Villanova University’s campus Friday morning as the women’s basketball team prepares for a Sweet 16 showdown with the University of Miami. The March Madness spreads across the Delaware River as well as the Princeton University men’s team prepares to play Creighton with a shot at the Elite Eight....

NBC10’s Randy Gyllenhaal examines the push, by some, to build a subway line along the busy Roosevelt Boulevard. Some lawmakers see this as “the moment” to build the train line in the grassy median. It would come at a big cost, however.

Just days after three teenagers were shot as more than 60 bullets were fired in just seconds in the middle of the afternoon in West Philadelphia, police released surveillance video that they hope helps track down four masked gunmen.

Steven Lazar was finally freed after serving more than 10 years for a murder prosecutors say he didn’t commit. NBC10’s Claudia Vargas shows us how the Lazar’s research at a prison’s law library helped him win his case.

Antisemitic incidents in Pennsylvania and New Jersey reached a record high in 2022, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). 

The trophies, 1,000 points scored and all the basketball accolades only tell part of the story of Philadelphia’s Jacob Beccles. The former Constitution High School student is headed to Cornell University of the Ivy Leagues.

Philadelphia has one of the lowest minimum wages of any major U.S. city. Here’s why the city doesn’t have the authority to raise its minimum wage.

A developer proposed a $2.7 billion race car-centric project for Atlantic City’s Bader Field, one of the Jersey Shore’s largest, undeveloped plots of waterfront land. NBC10’s Ted Greenberg has the details on the significant step forward that the project took.

Despite recent backlash from other communities in Philadelphia, the proposed $1.3 billion dollar 76ers arena is gaining support from organizations like the African American Chamber of Commerce. NBC10’s Brian Sheehan has the details.