Public Safety

State-by-state analysis of spending on prison health care shows Pennsylvania near the bottom.

The Pa. State Police must serve municipalities that don't have full-time local services. And as more localities have opted out, state taxpayers have been footing the bill.

All nine Democrats on the committee recently sent Sessions a letter essentially informing him that they expected him not to broadly assert executive privilege.

Police missteps in handling drunk citizens can be costly — and catastrophic — for residents, the city of Philadelphia's bottom line, and the public's trust.

Eighteen inmates have been charged in connection with February's prison riot at Vaughn Correctional that resulted in the death of Lt. Steven Floyd.

Two downstate men have been charged with spray painting racist graffiti on two Cape Henlopen High School buses and other vehicles and locations in southern Delaware.

The Alpha Fire Company in State College is proposing a huge increase in its annual stipend for volunteer firefighters. The proposal underlines the difficulty in recruiting vol

Investigators find that Philip Ahr, who heads Radnor Township's board of commissioners, had shared and solicited graphic child pornography since 2013, the DA's office says.

Bump stocks are currently legal — even though automatic weapons are only legal with a special license.

As the opioid crisis affects the whole nation, a Philadelphia expert offers strategies to address what's being cast as a problem of supply, addiction, and treatment.

A woman who lost her daughter in the Connecticut elementary school massacre still steels herself to tell the story. She does so to help others prepare for the next tragedy.

Two pit bulls were put down after attacking a New Castle County police officer responding to a burglary call.

A Philadelphia attorney vacationing in Las Vegas found himself running for his life Sunday night, when a gunman began mowing down concert-goers in a mass shooting.

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup's Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. opinion.

The two-man unit scours all sources for information on unsolved murders in northern Delaware, from DNA evidence to social media.