Public Safety

Authorities say a gunman opened fire on a large group in a Philadelphia park, fatally shooting the son of a high-ranking city police official.

The last several decades have brought more detailed plans and better technology, but the people responsible for TMI disaster prep say there will always be unknowns.

Pope Francis issued a new decree making it mandatory for Vatican officials to report allegations of sexual abuse to authorities or face possible jail time.

An engine malfunction on a ferry running from New Jersey to Delaware left more than 100 passengers stranded for several hours.

In Fukushima, farmers and residents put their stock in solar.

The Philadelphia school board voted to require metal detectors at all district high schools; protesters then took over the meeting

The premiere of “Healing Tones,” by composer Hannibal Lokumbe, will feature a member of the Pittsburgh synagogue where a mass shooting happened last year playing a shofar.

On the 40th anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, we look back at the disaster and discuss the effect it had on the nuclear power industry then and now.

The bills, which will likely face a court challenge, would ban the use of semi-automatic weapons, assault-style rifles and similar firearms.

More than two years after the death of correctional officer Lt. Steven Floyd, 714 security cameras are in place throughout the Vaughn Correctional Center.

We discuss Attorney General William Barr's summary letter of Special Counsel Mueller's report. Then, a recent decision opening gun manufacturers to liable.

The father of a Sandy Hook victim killed himself Monday, just days after two Stoneman Douglas students also took their lives.

Pa. officials have ordered the "emergency removal" of all children remaining in the oldest reform school in the country.

At stake is $13.5 billion emergency relief legislation to help southern farmers, rebuild hurricane-damaged military bases and repair water systems.

Even an unprecedented twister can be predicted. The issue is how people interpret these warnings.