Public Safety

A hurricane warning is in effect for a long stretch of the coast, from the South Santee River in South Carolina to Duck, N.C., which is part of the Outer Banks.

After weeks of relative silence, Pope Francis has agreed to meet a delegation of U.S. bishops and cardinals to discuss the Vatican response to the clergy abuse crisis.

The ceremony honored 23 New York City police officers and 37 New York Port Authority police officers who were among the 2,819 people who died that day.

In 2012, Pennsylvania passed a law requiring a minimum five-year sentence for anyone convicted of multiple straw purchase violations.

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

The offices of the Attorneys General have set up hotlines to identify potential victims of clergy sex abuse.

How many times per year does a gun go off in an American school? We should know. But we don't.

A U.S. judge in Seattle blocked the Trump administration Monday from allowing a Texas company to post online plans for making untraceable 3D guns.

As he fled, Williams, 28, said, he could see the back of the gunman's head as the attacker appeared to be walking backward as he fired.

he Education Department says it is weighing whether to allow states to use federal funds to purchase guns for schools

Those who've used the app so far, say it's far less traumatizing than reporting face-to-face.

A federal judge said Tuesday the issue should be decided by the president or Congress.

The bike lanes on Pine and Spruce streets are Philly’s versions of the watched pot that never boils.

The shooting at a school supply giveaway on Saturday was the second public event disrupted by violence this summer in New Jersey’s capital city.

For years now, bike-safety advocates have pressed Philadelphia’s elected officials to build more bike lanes and protect them with physical barrierrs