Public Safety

“Something Happened in Our Town” helps parents talk to their kids about racial issues by addressing police-involved shootings.

A crash involving 20 to 40 vehicles during a whiteout snow squall snarled traffic on a busy eastern Pennsylvania highway Wednesday afternoon.

As a new state legislative session dawns, gun control advocates are renewing their call for change.

In 2018, Chester City was dubbed one the “murder capitals of America.” But crime is down, including the rate of homicides.

Record-shattering cold, heavy snow and howling winds are descending on a broad swath of the U.S., the National Weather Service says.

AAA examined 34 vehicle brands for model year 2018 and found a confusing morass of terms for driver assistance systems.

A month after an extensive NJ.com investigation, state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal says he wants to improve how police departments track use-of-force incidents.

N.J. authorities say a man is in custody following a standoff that began after law enforcement agencies responded to reports of shots fired in Salem City.

 A large tire fire in northeast Philadelphia sending dark smoke billowing into the air has closed the Betsy Ross Bridge between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Mayor Jim Kenney is devoting more than $4 million to fighting gun violence as a public health crisis.

We’re joined by The Philadelphia Inquirer’s transportation reporter JASON LAUGHLIN about why this road is so deadly and what efforts are underway to make it a safer.

Guests: Ari Berman, Allison Hoffman, Jason Laughlin ...

This map provides an interactive display of streams throughout Pa., N.J. and Del., showing which the states have declared unclean for swimming and fish consumption.

A man held two women hostage Monday morning in a barricaded room at the UPS Mail Innovations facility on Birch Creek Road in Logan Township.

The New Jersey Attorney General's Office did not investigate a rape allegation because the victim wasn't a state worker at the time of the attack.