A Reading, Pennsylvania Police officer is now facing charges after he allegedly attacked a woman during a traffic stop and then lied about the incident in his report. Officer Jesus Santiago-DeJesus is charged with official oppression and fabricating evidence.

Officer Santiago-DeJesus pulled over Marcelina Cintron-Garcia, 30, and her boyfriend, Joel Rodriguez, 24, in Readinpg back on April 5. The officer told the couple they had failed to use their turn signal, according to officials. Cintron-Garcia told NBC10 she then began to record the officer on her cellphone which triggered an angry reaction.

“He slapped my phone away,” she said.

After smashing her phone on the sidewalk, Officer Santiago-DeJesus then punched Cintron-Garcia and pushed her to the pavement, according to officials.

“It’s like he pushed me and threw me to the floor,” Cintron-Garcia said. “He was really, really hard with me.”

Cintron-Garcia suffered a gash to her head and had to be hospitalized. Despite this, she was still charged with aggravated and simple assault as well as traffic offenses while her boyfriend was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. The couple then filed a complaint with Reading city police who turned the investigation over to the Berks County District Attorney’s Office.

Investigators say they viewed surveillance video as well as cellphone recordings and determined the couple was innocent. They also say the couple actually did use their turn signal and are unsure why Officer Santiago-DeJesus pulled them over in the first place.

After further investigation, authorities dropped the charges against the couple. They also determined Officer Santiago-DeJesus destroyed and falsified evidence and acted excessively during his interaction with Cintron-Garcia.

“We firmly believe the force was unnecessary and excessive,” said Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams.

During a press conference Wednesday, Adams announced Officer Santiago-DeJesus was placed on administrative leave and will face charges.

“You really get no satisfaction in filing charges against a fellow law enforcement officer,” Adams said. “But we will not permit the integrity of the criminal justice system to be compromised.”

Authorities told NBC10 Officer Santiago-DeJesus had similar issues in the past and smashed the cellphone of another person a few months ago. He is set to face a judge Thursday. Cintron-Garcia and Rodriguez meanwhile are happy the charges against them were dropped and glad that they recorded the incident.

“The officers, they got their right to record when they stop you,” Rodriguez said. “As citizens, we’ve got the same right to record.”

For the second straight night the San Francisco Giants bullpen got the night off. Just as they struggled against Madison Bumgarner on Tuesday, the Padres could not get more than one run against Johnny Cueto who went the distance and pitched the entire game.

That only run for the Padres came in the bottom of the second inning when Alexei Ramirez got an RBI single, bringing in Brett Wallace to get the Padres on the board 1-0.

On the mound for the Friars tonight was left handed pitcher Drew Pomeranz. He cruised into the fourth innings without allowing any runs, but then came Hunter Pence. His two-run homer in the fourth broke a string of 18 straight scoreless innings for Pomeranz.

The Padres extend the Giants winning streak to seven games with this 2-1 loss. The final game of this series will be Wednesday night at Petco Park.

Donald Trump used the word "rape" in rehashing a controversial claim by an alleged Bill Clinton mistress in the 1990s that was never ultimately corroborated in court, NBC News reported.

His comments came in a wide-ranging interview on Wednesday with Fox News' Sean Hannity that was taped earlier Wednesday and aired that night.

Hannity questioned whether The New York Times, after publishing an extensive evaluation of Trump's professional and personal relationships with women, would take the same approach to Bill Clinton's affairs.

"For example, I looked at The New York Times. Are they going to interview Juanita Broaddrick? Are they going to interview Paula Jones? Are they going to interview Kathleen Willey?" Hannity asked Trump, listing women who have made allegations against Bill Clinton. "In one case, it's about exposure. In another case, it's about groping and fondling and touching against a woman's will."

Trump replied, "And rape."

"And rape," Hannity agreed.

Clinton spokesman Nick Merril said in a response: "Trump is doing what he does best, attacking when he feels wounded and dragging the American people through the mud for his own gain. If that's the kind of campaign he wants to run that's his choice. Hillary Clinton is running a campaign to be President for all of America."

The caretaker for a 92-year-old woman charged with the attempted murder of her best friend is out on bail. 

66-year old William Sutton is accused of throwing 93-year old Margaret Wood through a screen door.

The attack was caught on surveillance camera. 

Sutton was released from jail Tuesday, pending the outcome of his trial.

The victim's family and elderly friends in the Oceanside neighborhood where the women live, fear he may be coming back. 

93-year-old Margaret Wood and 92-year-old Marian Kubic are the best of friends. The once vibrant and fun loving women now cling to each other in hospice care. 

“She doesn't recognize you. She doesn't wake up. She won't wake up,” Margaret's granddaughter-in-law, Lisa Wood said.

Lisa recovered a video recorded April 16 on a security camera. 

She says the footage shows Marian's caretaker, William Sutton, pushing Margaret through Marian's screen door. 

She landed head-first, three steps below on the concrete front porch. Margaret cracked her skull and broke her nose.

Marian, who witnessed the attack, was not physically injured but it is taking an emotional toll. 

“She's been a vegetable pretty much in a wheelchair,” Marian's daughter Reggi Brown said.

Sutton pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and willful cruelty to an elderly adult last month but it was just Tuesday that he made bail. 

“To learn that he was out it's terrifying. I don't want him to know where granny is, where Marian is,” Lisa said. 

Lisa says Sutton's bond restrictions prohibit him from contacting Margaret and Marian, or going within 100 yards of their homes.

The restraining order feels like little protection though, from a man accused of crimes that had such devastating results. 

“I pray to God nobody else goes through what we are going through right now,” Brown said. 

We contacted Sutton by phone but he did not respond to our questions. 

Over the phone his sister Sherry told NBC 7, she has nothing to say. 

A message left with Sutton's attorney Wednesday night was not returned before the news broadcast

On a hospital bed,just days before he died, former Utah Republican Senator Bob Bennett apologized to Muslims in America for Donald Trump's rhetoric, NBC News reported.

"And he was very emotional," Bennett's son Jim said "And said, 'I want to go up to every single one of them and apologize, I want to go up to every single one of them and tell them how grateful I am that they are in this country and apologize on behalf of the Republican Party for Donald Trump.'"

Jim Bennett said that when he later spoke to his mother, Joyce Bennett, about the conversation, she told him that expressing a sense of inclusion for ostracized populations, especially Muslims, had become "something that he was doing quite a lot of in the last months of his life."

Bennett, a three-term Republican Senator who lost in Utah's 2010 Republican primary to two tea-party opponents, had become increasingly concerned with Trump's rhetoric in recent months.

A transgender woman suffered a facial fracture in an attack by five men as she walked from a subway in Brooklyn last Friday, police say.

The 32-year-old victim was walking along 9th Street near 7th Avenue in the Park Slope neighborhood at about 11:30 p.m. on May 13 when she was ambushed, investigators said. 

The victim told NBC 4 New York Wednesday she had just gotten off the train when she noticed a man walk up to her, and then she was suddenly surrounded. They yelled a derogatory slur, and she tried to walk away. 

"I was just trying to get away at that point, I just didn't want any altercation," she said. 

"Next thing you know, I got my hair pulled and was just getting hit in multiple directions, fists at the same time," she said. 

She was taken to New York Methodist Hospital. Bruises were still visible underneath her left eye Wednesday.

She said she's afraid of what her attackers could do next.

"These individuals seem like they would do it to the next person, would brutally beat up somebody," she said. 

The victim says she's in good spirits as she recovers.

"It can be traumatic but you can't let someone that's hateful keep you down," she said. 

NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the attack and are looking at surveillance cameras from nearby businesses. No arrests have been reported, but police think the suspects are in their late teens or early 20s. 

Despite the Airbus A320's recent involvement with several high-profile incidents in recent years, it is still one of the safest commercial jetliners in the world, NBC News reported.

One of the twin-engine planes takes off every 2.5 seconds somewhere on the planet. A workhorse jet, it is used by most U.S. airlines and more than 6,700 of them are in operation worldwide.

They include Egyptair Flight MS804 — which vanished from radar and crashed early Thursday while carrying a total of 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo. Airbus said the missing Airbus A320 was made in 2003 and delivered to Egyptair in 2008, adding that the aircraft had accumulated around 48,000 flight hours.

The incident came after an 18-month period in which there have been at least six fatal incidents involving the A320 or its variants.

D.C. police have charged a security guard at a Giant grocery store with simple assault after a transgender woman said the guard forced her out of the women's restroom.

Ebony Belcher, 32, said she went to the Giant in northeast D.C. with a friend to pick up a delivery from the Western Union.

While at the Giant, she asked a store employee to point her to the restroom and passed a female security officer standing in the hallway.

The officer came into the restroom and told her to get out, according to Belcher.

"She opened the door and came in and started calling me derogatory names," Belcher said.

She said the officer put her hand on her shoulder and arm, grabbed her and pushed her out of the store.

Belcher said the guard told her, "You guys cannot keep coming in here and using our women's restroom. They did not pass the law yet."

She said she called police and reported the incident after she left the store. According to a police report, officers arrested the guard at the Giant after the confrontation.

Belcher said she suffers from Parkinson's disease and almost fell while the officer was shoving her.

The guard, who has not been identified, is a special police officer at a Giant store near Third and H streets in northeast D.C.

Giant issued a statement, which read: "As this matter involves a third party that provides security services for Giant and there's an ongoing criminal investigation, all inquiries related to the incident at the H Street Giant should be directed to the local police for a comment at this time."

President Obama recently issued a directive to public schools that transgender students must be allowed to use the bathroom of their choice.

A controversial law in North Carolina has also brought the issue to the forefront. The law says transgender people must use public bathrooms, showers and changing rooms that correspond to the sex on their birth certificate. The Justice Department has sued North Carolina, saying the law violates civil rights laws.

A 3-year-old boy was found wandering a street in Santee Wednesday morning, officials confirmed.

A neighbor spotted the unsupervised toddler just before 8 a.m. wandering the 9100 block of Fanita Rancho Road near Todos Santos Drive and reported the incident to 911, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department (SDSO) said.

Investigators determined the boy had slipped out of his home, undetected, while a parent was home. Two families live at the house, including multiple children.

The SDSO said this was an isolated incident. Officials said a deputy did a thorough investigation and search of the home and determined the home is clean and the children inside are healthy and safe.

The SDSO said the tot's parents told authorities they would "improve child-proofing measures around the home" including adding a latch to the door to keep this from happening again.

The SDSO said the case appears to be an accident and, at this time, was not referred to Child Welfare Services.

NBC 7 spoke with the parents of the toddler who said the incident was a parent's worst nightmare. They hugged their son tight.

The boy's father said what happened to his family is a good reminder for other parents that children are very smart and can never be watched too closely.

The parents told NBC 7 the toddler was sleeping Wednesday morning in the same bedroom as his mother, who was also asleep. When the child woke up, instead of going to his mother, the tot walked out of the bedroom and then walked out of the house, wandering up the street, the parents said.

That's when a neighbor saw the child and called authorities.

The father, who had been away from the house, said he pulled up to his street to find his son with an SDSO deputy. He said he jumped out of his car and hugged his son, relieved the boy was not hurt in the incident.

"I was pretty much terrified when I got back," said the boy's father. "[I was] still shaking for a couple hours [afterwards]."

The father told NBC 7 he's grateful to his neighbor for calling 911.

"I was glad he was okay. I'm still sitting in here, holding him," he added. "[It's] easy to think about everything that could have happened."

He said he had added a security latch to the door of his home immediately after the incident -- a task he had been putting off but wished he had done before all of this happened.

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A driver was seriously hurt when a San Diego Fire-Rescue engine responding to an emergency call collided with a vehicle in City Heights on Wednesday, authorities said.

The maroon sedan was heading southbound at the time of the crash, exiting Interstate 15 at 40th Street and University Avenue at about 10:20 a.m.

The fire engine was traveling westbound on 40th on the way to a fuel spill with lights and sirens on, according to Battalion Chief David Picone.

Officials said the two vehicles collided in the middle of the intersection.

The fire crews immediately jumped into action, Picone said, "helping out the people in the car to get them their medical treatment."

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The driver of the car was transported to Mercy Hospital with serious injuries, according to initial reports.

A female passenger in the car suffered what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries. She was transported to a nearby hospital by ambulance.

No firefighters were hurt.

"The guys are kinda shaken up right now. They’re just hoping everyone is OK," said Picone.

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California Highway Patrol has closed the soutbound I-15 off-ramp to University Avenue, according to spokesperson Robert Catano.

A Sig Alert was issued for University Avenue between 39th and 40th.

Staff members at the Health Sciences High and Middle College on University Avenue heard the sirens and ran outside the school to see what had happened, according to the principal.

She told NBC 7 all of her students were inside at the time of the crash.

No other information was immediately available.

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This isn't the first time a fire truck or engine has been involved in a crash. This map highlights traffic collisions between 2005 and 2014.

Ed Rendell has apologized for "incredibly dumb and selfish" comments he made referring to "ugly women in America" while criticizing Donald Trump.

The former Pennsylvania governor and Philadelphia mayor felt the heat almost immediately after a quote attributed to him appeared in a Washington Post story about Donald Trump's appeal to voters.

"For every one he’ll lose 1½ , two Republican women. Trump’s comments like ‘You can’t be a 10 if you’re flat-chested,’ that’ll come back to haunt him," Rendell had said. "There are probably more ugly women in America than attractive women. People take that stuff personally.”

His opinion about the attractiveness of American women was met with swift backlash.

"I was totally taken off guard, because he’s more diplomatic and really has a very good vocabulary most of the time," said Gwendolyn Collins, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Democratic Women. "He might not have taken his medicine, or someone slipped him a mickey. It’s not like him to say something like that."

And on Twitter:

Rendell told the AP he was sorry about his "incredibly dumb" comments and that he meant to make light of his his own appearance and argue "there's more of us than there are of them."

Here's part of his apology: 

San Diego Police were investigating a stabbing on Fifth Avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter soon after nightclubs closed early Thursday.

The 33-year-old man was able to talk with officers who found him bleeding on Fifth Avenue near F Street at 2:40 a.m., police said.

The man was transported to a nearby hospital where he was rushed into surgery for a stab wound to the upper torso, SDPD Lt. Kevin Mayer said.

Mayer said the details surrounding the stabbing were unclear.

Officers found a damaged Mercedes Benz one block away from where the man was found. There was debris scattered on the sidewalk near Fifth Avenue and E Street.

Witnesses told police there was a fight in the area where the Mercedes Benz was parked.

Mayer said it’s unclear what prompted the fight or how many people were involved.

Developers have reopened the 150-unit Westminster Manor in Bankers Hill, following a $55.2 million acquisition and renovation of the senior affordable apartment property, according to the San Diego Housing Commission.

The project was completed by Westminster Manor LLC, a joint venture of Carlsbad-based developer Chelsea Investment Corp. and Westminster Manor of San Diego Inc. Officials said it was the first major overhaul in 44 years for the apartment property serving low-income seniors, built in 1972 at 1730 Third Ave.

A Housing Commission statement said the 16-story building now features improvements including a larger community room, a computer-equipped library, new windows and floors, and upgraded kitchens and showers, following a $13.2 million renovation that began in late 2014.

The Housing Commission authorized the issuance of $27.3 million in state multifamily housing revenue bonds to cover approximately 49 percent of total acquisition financing and renovation costs.

The Housing Commission partnered with Chelsea Investment, Westminster Manor of San Diego and Senior Housing Corp. for the purchase and renovation of the property. Residents were temporarily relocated to area hotels during construction.

One firefighter was injured when a North Comm fire engine crashed into a ditch near Bonsall early Thursday, California Highway Patrol officials said.

The fire engine traveled off Old Highway 395 just south of Camino del Rey at 7: 35 a.m., CHP officials said.

One firefighter suffered minor injuries.

A minivan was also involved in the accident, CHP said.

A Sig Alert was issued for Old Highway 395. CHP expected northbound and southbound lanes to be blocked until further notice.

Old Highway 395 is a popular route just west of Interstate 15, south of the State Route 76 junction.

U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will be rallying in two San Diego locations this weekend.

Sanders has added Vista on his list, which already included National City.

On Saturday, the Senator will speak at Kimball Park on National City Boulevard. The event is free for the public.

Doors open at 4:30 p.m. and the event starts at 7:30 p.m.

Sanders will also rally in Vista on Sunday at the Rancho Buena Vista High School Stadium on Longhorn Drive.

Doors open at 11:00 a.m. and the event will start at 2:00 p.m.

Sanders is expected to discuss issues about climate change, universal health care and tuition-free public colleges and universities.

Meanwhile, NBC 7 has confirmed Bill Clinton will also be in town this weekend. Details of his visit are not available. 

Several parents demanded answers Wednesday from Poway Unified School District trustees regarding the inadvertent release of student education records.

"Why can’t you talk to the public? This leadership is a joke," Jeff Riley asked the board in the special session. The U.S. Navy veteran was angry when he learned it was 10 days before the district notified parents of the breach in security.

"What was released and what wasn’t? We still don’t know that," Riley told NBC 7. "They’re not specifically saying what was put out there."

Parents of PUSD students received an email Monday alerting them that the records were released accidentally.

Associate Superintendent Malliga Tholandi said the records handed over under a California Public Records Request Act included directory information and district-based test scores. No social security numbers were included, she added.

Gabriela Dow, a Poway parent and a member of the Education Technology Advisory Committee, said she wrote the CPRA after months of being denied information by the superintendent and staff.

Dow told the board she has prepared a letter to the governor detailing the events leading up to her CPRA request.

She also said her laptop containing the student education records has been delivered to the District Attorney’s Office.

“One CD, one laptop doesn’t mean the information hasn’t already been shared in multiple places for years,” Dow said.

Several other parents demanded the district inform the parents with how they plan to make sure a similar release of data doesn't happen in the future.

“My expectation as a parent and someone who is a taxpayer in this community is that there would be a thorough audit on where this information has been released,” said Melissa Lazaro.

Following the closed session, the board said it will direct staff to move the handling of CPRA requests in house as of May 18.

The board also wants a detailed description of events that can be released to the community.

A spokesperson said that information "will be forthcoming ASAP." 

The next regular board meeting will be Tuesday, May 31 at 6:00 p.m.

The records were released under a California Public Records Act (CPRA) request. By state law, public agencies must provide records on request to anyone who wants to inspect the records during office hours. There are some exceptions to this rule like birth or adoption records or attorney-client discussions.

However, there is also a federal law that protects students’ education records from being released without a parent’s written permission.

There is another reason to move to San Diego besides the great weather and beautiful beaches.

San Diego was named one of the top 25 best cities to work in by Glassdoor on Wednesday.

The top 25 cities were chosen based on how easy it is to get a job, the cost of living and employee satisfaction and work-life balance according to Glassdoor.

America’s Finest City took the number 21 spot on the list.

Based on the study, San Diego has around 45,424 job openings and the average salary is $71,323. The average value of homes is $506,100.

Popular jobs included Marketing Assistant, Senior Research Associate and Senior Data Scientist.

San Diegans have spent nearly double the amount of time in traffic than three years ago and have commuted on average several more miles over the same time period, according to a newly released report.

Compounding the problem is the fact that residents are not taking advantage of public transit or bike commuting options.

The findings were released as part of the 2016 Quality of Life report from the Center for Sustainable Energy.

The report found that San Diegans were delayed about 15 hours by traffic last year, compared to 8.8 hours in 2013.

Prior to 2013, the average traffic delays were much higher, peaking in 2007 at about 17 hours, before gradually decreasing.

Stephen Heverly, an analyst with the center, attributes the decline between 2007 to 2013 to the economic recession and the ensuing higher unemployment rates.

Increasing housing prices were forcing residents to buy homes farther from work.

"People are really surprised," Heverly said. "I think generally one of the things San Diegans hate is to be compared to LA in any way shape or form, especially when it comes to driving."

But the report puts it plainly that local residents are driving farther than drivers in all other major counties in the state.

San Diego drivers commute an average of 11 miles on the freeway, compared, for instance, with drivers in LA who commute 9 miles.

The report also found that commuters weren’t taking advantage of alternative transportation options, such as the MTS trolley or bus. About 76 percent of local motorists reported driving to work alone.

Less than 1 percent rode a bike to work and only 2.7 percent used public transportation.

If the problem isn't addressed, Heverly said he only sees it worsening.

"I do think that we're going to get the LA traffic," he said.

An 87-year-old woman took matters into her own hands when her friend found a prowler inside her home.

Poway residents Mary Margaret Gross and her friend Darce Flowers spoke to NBC 7 exclusively on Wednesday.

Last Tuesday, Gross walked into her bedroom in her home on Aubrey Street and found a man digging through her drawers.

“I did reach for the phone, but I thought, 'If he heard me and had a knife, Oh God! What would he do?'” the 80-year-old Gross said.

So instead of calling 911, Gross says she repeatedly hit a button sending a call for help to her friend, Flowers, who lives next door.

Flowers answered the call and confronted the suspected prowler.

“I said you need to get out of here," said Flowers.

Gross told NBC 7, she recalled the prowler said he was looking for food.

“He was going toward the kitchen and I said, 'No, you need to get out of here,'" Flowers said.

Armed with just her tough talk, Flowers was able to scare the prowler out of the house without incident.

Gross told NBC 7 that Flowers is her hero.

"I don’t know what I’d do without her and now I’m doubly indebted to her,” she said.

One lesson she’s learned, is to make sure she locks her doors, Gross said. Although she is still not sure how the prowler got inside her home.

The women say he was arrested later the same day in Old Poway Park.

An Egyptair flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 people on board that went missing over the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday has crashed, French president François Hollande confirmed.

He said no hypothesis could be ruled out or preferred, including an accident or a terrorist act, The Associated Press reported. 

Egyptair said Flight MS804 left Charles de Gaulle Airport at 11:09 p.m. Paris time (5:09 p.m. ET). The jet was about 10 miles into Egyptian airspace at an altitude of nearly 37,000 feet when it vanished at around 2:45 a.m. local time (8:45 p.m. ET), according to officials and radar trackers.

Greece's defense minister Panos Kammenos said the jet made abrupt turns and suddenly lost altitude just before vanishing, the AP reported. 

Most of the flight's passengers were Egyptian or French. Three children, seven crew and three "security personnel" were also among those on board. No Americans were believed on the plane.

Egyptian search teams have spotted possible debris from the missing jet 230 miles south-southeast of the island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea, a Greek military official told the AP. It was not immediately clear what suggested the items might be from the missing jet.

The crash has put Egypt's aviation track safety record under the spotlight again. A Russian Metrojet passenger plane crashed after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh airport in October, killing all 224 on board. ISIS claimed responsibility for downing the plane. In March, an Egyptair plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus by a man wearing a fake explosive suicide belt.