Matt DeLucia

Philadelphia

Reporter at WCAU-TV (Philadelphia, PA)

@NBCPhiladelphia morning reporter and sleep deprived storyteller. South Jersey guy. @LaSalleUniv and @camdencatholic alum.

Articles

Residents, photojournalist reflect on the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia 40 years later

2 days ago | nbcphiladelphia.com | David Chang |Erin Coleman |Matt DeLucia |Yukare Nakayama

It's been 40 years since the 1985 MOVE bombing, an event that changed Philadelphia forever and remains a dark moment in the city's history. MOVE was a Philadelphia Black liberation group led by its founder John Africa. The group practiced a back-to-nature lifestyle that shunned modern conveniences, preached equal rights for animals and rejected government authority.
Student behind La Salle University's mascot gives commencement speech

3 days ago | nbcphiladelphia.com | Hayden Mitman |Matt DeLucia

As La Salle University's explorer mascot, Alexis Sanchez stays silent and lets her body's movements do the speaking for her. But, at the school's graduation ceremony on Saturday, as commencement speaker, Sanchez had something to say. "I knew that I'd make my mark my freshman year, coming into summer. I just didn't know how," Sanchez told NBC10's Matt DeLucia.
SEPTA cracking down on fare evaders with $300 fine, gates with 3D tech, more police

2 weeks ago | nbcphiladelphia.com | David Chang |Yukare Nakayama |Matt DeLucia

As SEPTA faces a funding crisis and a looming "death spiral," the transit agency began their efforts to stop fare evaders from costing them even more money. SEPTA began installing signs at stations warning customers that they could face a $300 fine for jumping turnstiles and failing to pay for their ride. They officially began the enforcement at the Huntingdon Station in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood on Friday, April 25, 2025.
Survivor of 2004 Bucks County crash visits friend's grave for the first time

3 weeks ago | nbcphiladelphia.com | Matt DeLucia |David Chang

Few things have been harder for Adam Serio than visiting Paist and Durham roads in Buckingham Township, Pennsylvania. It was that very spot 21 years ago where he and four others were involved in a car crash that changed their lives forever. "I haven't been on this road since April 21, 2004," Serio told NBC10. Serio attended Central Bucks East as a teenager and was a member of the school's lacrosse team. On April 21, 2004, Serio and four of his teammates were getting ready for a game.
Philadelphia reacts to the death of Pope Francis

3 weeks ago | nbcphiladelphia.com | Hayden Mitman |Matt DeLucia

Catholics throughout the region -- and the world -- were in mourning on Monday upon learning that Pope Francis had died just one day after celebrating Easter at the Vatican. Father Dennis Gill, pastor of the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, told NBC10's Matt DeLucia he learned of the pontiff's death from a text and phone call from Nelson J. Pérez, archbishop of the Philadelphia Archdiocese, early Monday morning.
Hit-and-run in Philadelphia leaves woman dead; police seek driver

3 weeks ago | nbcphiladelphia.com | Cherise Lynch |Matt DeLucia

Police are searching for the driver responsible for a hit-and-run crash in Philadelphia that killed a woman late Thursday night. According to police, the incident happened around 11:30 p.m. on April 17, 2025, at the intersection of Cottman Ave. and Brous Ave. Police believe a vehicle was traveling eastbound on Cottman Avenue when the woman was hit. At the scene, police said the woman was missing a sneaker, and they believe her shoe had come off during the impact.
‘Services would be cut': Postal workers in Philly, around region rally against agency changes

1 month ago | phillytrib.com | Matt DeLucia |Dan Stamm

Postal workers around the country and right here in the greater Philadelphia region rallied this weekend to speak out against proposed changes to the U.S. Postal Service that would change the historic agency and possibly even privatize it. Wearing “fight like hell” T-shirts and holding signs saying “keep the post office public” and “U.S. Mail Not for Sale,” postal workers rallied in Northeast Philadelphia’s Torresdale neighborhood Sunday, March 23, 2025.
Postal workers in Philly, around region rally against agency changes

1 month ago | nbcphiladelphia.com | Matt DeLucia |Dan Stamm

Postal workers around the country and right here in the greater Philadelphia region rallied this weekend to speak out against proposed changes to the U.S. Postal Service that would change the historic agency. Wearing "fight like hell" T-shirts and holding signs saying "keep the post office public" and "U.S. Mail Not for Sale," postal workers rallied in Northeast Philadelphia's Torresdale neighborhood Sunday, March 23, 2025.
Card skimming devices found at multiple stores in the Philadelphia region

1 month ago | nbcphiladelphia.com | Deanna Durante |Matt DeLucia |Cherise Lynch

You might want to check your bank accounts. Card-skimming devices have been found at several stores across the Philadelphia area. Mount Ephraim Police Department in Camden County, New Jersey, shared in a Facebook post that on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, employees at a 7-Eleven located at 521 W. Kings Highway found a skimming device. Police said the device had been attached to the credit card machine at the store's register and closely resembled the store's actual machine.
Man electrocuted while trying to steal copper wire in Philadelphia: Police

1 month ago | nbcphiladelphia.com | Matt DeLucia |Cherise Lynch

A man has suffered burns all over his body after police said he was electrocuted by a transformer box while trying to steal copper wire in Philadelphia's Bustleton neighborhood, police said. According to police, this all happened shortly after 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, 2025, next to a torn-down KFC by Grant Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard. Police said a man -- in his 40s or 50s -- cut the lock off a transformer box in an attempt to steal some copper wire inside.