
Public Safety
Pennsylvania utility regulator sharpens focus on cybersecurity threats
Pennsylvania's utility regulator has created a new office to deal specifically with cybersecurity threats.
7 years ago
First responders near pipeline prep for an unlikely event: ‘One hell of a boom’
Recent pipeline explosions near Pittsburgh tested firefighters, police.
7 years ago
Mayor Kenney vows to clean up audit issues over DNC security funds
He's promising all the money will be accounted for.
7 years ago
House passes gun-restricting domestic violence bill. It’s an outlier.
The bill was initially expected to pass last June, before the legislature wrapped up for the summer.
7 years ago
Man charged with series of Delaware sexual assaults, robberies
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.
7 years ago
7-year-old boy dies in fall from moving subway car
Police say a 7-year-old boy who was selling candy on a Philadelphia train with his brother fell between two moving subway cars and died. ...
7 years ago
Police identify 54-year kayaker who died in Brandywine
Update: September 24, 2018 The kayaker who drowned has been identified by police as 54-year-old James Battan. ...
7 years ago
Now arriving at SEPTA stations, quick CPR classes
At its most essential: Call 911, and push hard and fast in the center of the chest.
7 years ago
One year after Hurricane Maria, Philly a model for recovery
In the wake of Hurricane Maria, Lydia Adorno and her family came from Manatí, a municipality in the northern coast of Puerto Rico. They now have a row home in NW Philly.
7 years ago
Listen 6:27Chester County DA: Man who shot at ex, killed parents is found dead
Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said during a media briefing early Thursday that 59-year-old Bruce Rogal was dead after a manhunt and a police chase.
7 years ago
Pa. state police upping presence in certain schools
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.
7 years ago
Petition wants to make visiting the dead at Woodlands Cemetery safer for the living
More than 1,000 people have signed a petition calling for street safety improvements along Woodland Avenue.
7 years ago
Florence death toll swells as rivers rise
"The risk to life is rising with the angry waters," North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper declared as the storm's death toll climbed to 15.
7 years ago
Avalon adds high-tech weather equipment for real-time storm information
Avalon has invested in tracking equipment that will allow it to make weather conditions easily available to residents of the borough at t ...
7 years ago
Key Delaware lawmakers oppose ‘shell game’ of moving prisoners out of state
Looking to reduce $400,000 a week in corrections overtime, Gov. John Carney is mulling the mass move of up to 600 inmates.
7 years ago