Public Safety

The District Attorney and retired judge will face each other in a May 20 primary.

Underground cables overheated and caught fire, causing a manhole cover to explode, cutting power for two blocks.

Sudiksha Konanki is a Virginia resident and a student at the University of Pittsburgh. She was vacationing in Punta Cana with five others when she went missing last week.

The state Department of Environmental Protection found Energy Transfer broke state law with the leak.

Students at the Transitions School will learn job skills and earn work experience operating the cafe at the library system’s Westampton branch, officials said.

The bill was part of a state-sponsored test of using speed cameras to enforce school zone speed limits. Its future is now uncertain.

Air traffic control audio captured the pilot reporting that the aircraft “has an open door, we need to return for a landing.”

Preliminary investigations found the pilot’s black box recorder did not record audio from the Jan. 31 flight and likely hadn’t worked in years.

The lawsuit alleges French company Arkema negligently discharged PFAS into the Goose Creek watershed in West Chester.

Residents said environmental oversight is crucial as they continue to grapple with the impacts of the industrial disaster in their own backyards.

In a recording obtained by WHYY, a Camden County official said it was “by the grace of God” neighboring sewage treatment operations were spared.

The creek is not used for drinking water, and officials say no other source of drinking water has been affected.

SEPTA said it initially will run eight buses with the compartments to see what, if any, adjustments are needed and to get driver feedback.

The four-alarm fire at the aerospace product manufacturing facility triggered school closures, shelter-in-place orders and voluntary evacuations.

The call came in around 5 p.m. Friday for flames showing on the 1400 block of South Front Street.