Public Safety

“If you had to pick a monument that represented contemporary Philadelphia, what would you choose?”

Pennsylvania’s law against hate crimes protects people on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin. But it doesn’t include several other categories.

The gunman accused of shooting five coworkers in Maryland, killing three of them, then shooting a sixth person in Wilmington will be tried in Delaware first.

About 35 volunteers spent their Saturday working together to harness the power of technology to help people coming out of prison rebuild their lives.

Radee Prince faced trial this February in a Delaware court for allegedly beating the owner of a used-car lot in Wilmington — the same man he is accused of shooting Wednesday.

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.