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6 days ago | 
fox8live.com | Lucy Bustamante
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - After U.S.-born Robert Prevost was elected as the new pope, the world began racing to learn more about the man who took the name Pope Leo XIV. Historians quickly uncovered Pope Leo’s New Orleans roots, specifically to a family of Louisiana Creoles from the Seventh Ward.
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6 days ago | 
wdam.com | Lucy Bustamante
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - After U.S.-born Robert Prevost was elected as the new pope, the world began racing to learn more about the man who took the name Pope Leo XIV. Historians quickly uncovered Pope Leo’s New Orleans roots, specifically to a family of Louisiana Creoles from the Seventh Ward.
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6 days ago | 
kplctv.com | Lucy Bustamante
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - After U.S.-born Robert Prevost was elected as the new pope, the world began racing to learn more about the man who took the name Pope Leo XIV. Historians quickly uncovered Pope Leo’s New Orleans roots, specifically to a family of Louisiana Creoles from the Seventh Ward.
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May 20, 2024 | 
dean.house.gov | Lucy Bustamante
By Lucy Bustamante
Air Force veteran Joe McGrath served on Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove for 34 years.
“I started as a reservist in 1973,” McGrath told NBC10. “The writing was on the wall that the base was going to close.”
Most of the base ceased operations in 2011.
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May 14, 2024 | 
nbcphiladelphia.com | Lucy Bustamante
Studies investigating forever chemicals, or PFAs, in the water coming from Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove are looking at the possible correlations those chemicals have to cancer. We have an exclusive look at the new technology being tested on the base that is leading the effort to get these forever chemicals out of the water. It's a moment of celebration for two local women who took their fight for clean water from Warminster to the White House this year.
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May 10, 2024 | 
nbcphiladelphia.com | Lucy Bustamante
Air Force veteran Joe McGrath served on Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove for 34 years. “I started as a reservist in 1973,” McGrath told NBC10. “The writing was on the wall that the base was going to close.”Most of the base ceased operations in 2011. That same year, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Environmental Protection Agency confirmed toxic chemicals were in the site’s groundwater and eventually in the drinking water supply for the base and surrounding neighborhoods.
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May 8, 2024 | 
nbcphiladelphia.com | Lucy Bustamante |Cherise Lynch
A Phillies fan is asking for the public's help. Mary Rossano said she lost her wedding band at Citizens Bank Park during Sunday's Mother's Appreciation Day game. While cheering for Bryce Harper's 3-run homer Rossano told NBC10 her wedding band flew off her finger. Rossano says she was sitting in section 139 with her daughter when the ring went missing. She did go to guest services for help, and other fans assisted in the search, but nothing helped.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
nbcphiladelphia.com | Lucy Bustamante |David Chang |Lucia Walinchus
Two whistleblowers who reported sexual harassment allegations against two execs in the VA's Office of Resolution Management, Diversity & Inclusion (ORMDI) spoke out in an exclusive interview with NBC10. The whistleblowers accused Archie Davis, the ORMDI Chief of Staff, and Gary Richardson, another ORMDI executive, of sexually harassing an employee. One of the whistleblowers also claimed she was punished by the VA for reporting the alleged harassment to Congress.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
nbcphiladelphia.com | Cherise Lynch |Lucy Bustamante
New Jersey could soon become the third state in the nation to legalize "magic mushrooms". State lawmakers have introduced a bill that would decriminalize the use of the drug and allow people to grow and sell it. Psilocybin is the chemical in the mushrooms that produces hallucinations but studies show it allows cognitive behavioral therapy to work better and faster.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
nbcboston.com | Glenn Jones |Lucy Bustamante |Kyle Jones
New data received by NBC News from the Department of Veterans Affairs shows that Black veterans were denied disability claims more than white veterans across the VA healthcare system in the last 20 years. The disparities were highlighted in a series of reports by NBC News Now and NBC local stations in a series called “American Vets: Benefits, Race and Inequality.“Two local veterans from the Boston area say generations of mistrust at the VA need to be repaired. “We served this country.
