security and public safety

PATRIOT DAY. The attack happened 22 years ago today. American flags, from sea to shining sea, are lowered today. A moment of silence, first at 8:46 a....

PHOENIXVILLE (AP) — Authorities say an escaped murderer who has eluded capture since breaking out of a southeastern Pennsylvania prison a week and a h...

SMETHPORT — A Kane woman was sentenced Thursday in McKean County Court to serve time in state prison for numerous firearm violations. Marily Woodford ...

WEST CHESTER (AP) — A prison tower guard has been fired after letting a murderer slip out on his watch in a brazen daytime escape last week, county of...

Allegations of faking a kidnapping in an effort to get drugs and money have landed a Bradford woman in McKean County Jail. Tuesday Hale, 57, of 20 Mai...

Bradford man jailed for alleged sexual assault Charges including statutory sexual assault have landed a Bradford man in McKean County Jail. Timothy Ki...

SMETHPORT — Charges involving the alleged straw purchase of 20 firearms from McKean County E-Sales have been filed against a Bolivar, N.Y., man and ar...

On Monday, beginning at 7 p.m. and continuing for three hours and 43 minutes — precisely — the Firemen’s Monument in the Oak Hill Cemetery will be ill...

WEST CHESTER (AP) — A murderer who made a brazen escape from a suburban Philadelphia jail yard was still on the lam Thursday as the search entered its...

A Bradford man is in McKean County Jail on charges alleging he had inappropriate sexual contact with a woman without her consent. Andrew Reap, 32, of ...

WEST CHESTER (AP) — A murderer made a brazen escape from a suburban Philadelphia jail yard by scaling a wall, climbing over razor wire and jumping fro...

WEST CHESTER (AP) — Authorities have moved and expanded the search area for a convicted murderer who escaped from a suburban Philadelphia prison last ...

SMETHPORT — A Smethport man is in McKean County Jail for mutiple felony counts alleging the repeated sexual assault of a child. Robert Allen Tanner, 5...

SMETHPORT — A Kane man was found guilty at jury trial Monday in McKean County Court of raping a child over a six-month period in 2022. Brian A. Gausma...

Police departments in Los Angeles, Denver, Milwaukee and Minneapolis provide expensive security details for mayors and other city officials even as th...

SMETHPORT — A Smethport man is in McKean County Jail, held without bail, for allegedly threatening to shoot a police officer who stopped him for DUI e...

A Bradford man is in McKean County Jail for allegedly fleeing from police who tried to pick him up on an outstanding warrant. Kenneth R.F. Bell, 27, o...

A Bradford man is in McKean County Jail on drug charges after being stopped by a state parole agent on Main Street at 9:29 p.m. Thursday. Larry Shroye...

KANE — A Kane man is in McKean County Jail on allegations of sexual assault on a child. Mark Wilson, 65, of Poplar Street, is charged with three count...

SMETHPORT — Bradford man Ryan Forsythe was sentenced Thursday in McKean County Court to spend more than 6 years in state prison for a firearm charge f...