Policing

A 47-year-old Claymont-area man has been charged for a series of sexual assaults and robberies involving female victims in suburban New Castle County.

Some parents of kids in city schools firmly in favor of the police presence.

Advocates argue that the new mail policy — aimed to keep drugs out of prisons — violates inmates' rights.

New rules will require more frequent visits to schools in areas that don't have their own police departments, and so they rely on state police for coverage.

Pennsylvania sentences more people to life in prison without the possibility of parole than any other state.

Life without parole applies automatically to first- and second-degree murder, and sometimes to third-degree murder.

Three of the poorest ZIP codes in the city are responsible for almost a third of the city’s homicides since January 2013.

All books will now have to go through the Department of Corrections.

State AG says it can help law enforcement get there before the next fatal overdose and help get drug users into treatment.

The officer is charged in the shooting death of 17-year-old Antwon Rose.

County officials launch camera registry to aid in police investigations.

Grewal said when law enforcement officers and citizens know their encounters are being recorded, they behave better.

“This program here will give those kids an opportunity to do the right thing.”

A former Philadelphia Police officer is now facing first degree murder charges for fatally shooting a suspect who fled from a traffic sto ...

A former Philadelphia police officer has been indicted in the deadly shooting a 30-year-old Germantown man in the back last year.