Public Safety

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott called the incident “an unthinkable tragedy.”

Officials say Lin'ajah Brooker was playing with two other children when she slipped and fell into the fast-moving creek near 8th Street.

A state police bomb squad later cleared the library, but police said “additional reported threats” were still being investigated.

Rain becomes heavy at times during the middle of the day on Saturday. The heaviest rain looks to fall along the I-95 corridor and areas east of that.

The officers join Philly’s police department at a time when the Parker administration is rolling out safer streets initiatives.

City leaders hope that shutting stores down early could reduce crime and drug use in Kensington. Some businesses are skeptical the curfew would work.

Kimbrady Carriker is charged for the seemingly random shootings in Kingsessing in July 2023.

Officials say the flames have spread to multiple homes.

Neighbors have shared months of outside home surveillance video with detectives.

The man suspected of killing three people in Bucks County was arrested without incident by police in Trenton, N.J.

John Barnett made international headlines when he went public with his story, saying he wouldn't trust planes made in North Charleston, S.C., to be safe and airworthy.

With warm weather coming, it's time to dust off your bike and pump up those tires. We're talking about the joys of biking and the best places to do it in our region.

Responding officers were notified that two residents of the home had been pulled out of the fire by neighbors.

"Permit-to-purchase laws work,” said Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown. “States with permit laws have 25% lower gun homicide rates, 50% lower gun suicide rates.”

The Pa. legislature created a special prosecutor to go after crimes committed in the transit system, and Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker promised to beef up police patrols.