Public Safety

The Milford police chief has been nationally recognized for her implementation of a gun violence intervention model experts are calling a “game changer.”

Exposure to toxic blue-green algae can cause organ damage in humans and kill pets.

Delaware emergency management and education officials believe the new plans will help limit dangers posed to students.

Authorities have centered their efforts on an area near where the creek that flooded enters the Delaware River.

About 150 people filled the Crossing Church in Upper Makefield, Bucks County, for a community vigil with music and prayer.

Police say one of the SEPTA bus drivers rear-ended the other. Both buses were occupied at the time.

Pay attention to emergency alerts, don’t drive into floodwaters, and get to higher ground if possible.

Democratic senators in Pennsylvania are hoping that this will be the year that stronger gun laws make it to the governor’s desk.

The presence of school resource officers, sometimes called school police, comes with tradeoffs for Black students according to a new report.

The decision follows a string of shootings by landlord-tenant officers over the last several months.

An investigation of the Pa. university revealed widespread distrust in misconduct reporting systems and that the ethics office fell into chaos.

A community vigil, meanwhile, is scheduled to take place Thursday evening to mourn those lost in the flood.

Police say the victims were attending a vigil for a victim who was shot and killed in the same area on July 5.

Further details on what led up to the shooting have not been released.

The leak at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in West Reading was traced to a gas fitting that was installed in 1982 and was determined to have fractured.