security and public safety

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — It’s back! The Allegany Old Home Days carnival will be on this year. After two years of no Old Home Days celebration in 2020 and 2021...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Gov. Josh Shapiro called on state lawmakers Thursday to abolish the death penalty. Lawmakers should reject that request. The death p...

A Clinton County man who is facing felony weapons charges, resisting arrest, drug offenses, and several traffic violations has been sent to the McKean...

HARRISBURG — Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro said Thursday he will not allow Pennsylvania to execute any inmates while he is in office and called for the...

PART 3: Stories from Dr. Frederick Young continue. We’re fascinated, and we hope you are too! We left off talking about month-long vacations, includin...

KERSEY — Fox Township Ambulance Service and township firefighters recently purchased a new side-by-side rescue vehicle to be used in places that would...

GALETON — As part of an ongoing burglary investigation, Pennsylvania State Police from Coudersport executed a search warrant on Bingham Center Road in...

DOYLESTOWN (AP) — A man has been sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison in a 2021 shooting that wounded a suburban Philadelphia borough police chief. C...

PennLive UNIONTOWN (TNS) — A teacher in Western Pennsylvania is in hot water after police said they wrapped up a months-long investigation into report...

From my perspective — speaking only for myself, and not as a member of my race, gender or ethnic origin — Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah had i...

Sanctuary cities are easy to declare but harder to pay for. Take New York City. It has long attracted immigrants, both legal and illegal. But the late...

A Rochester, N.Y., man was sent to McKean County Jail Friday for allegedly intercepting a check from a local doctor’s office, “washing” it and cashing...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — A Montgomery County woman initially sentenced to 21 years in federal prison for her role in a companion’s overdose death was like...

SALAMANCA, N.Y. — Two Buffalo residents face several felony charges after a reported burglary of a cannabis dispensary and wild chase early Thursday o...

A 23 year-old Bradford man is in McKean County jail, unable to post bail, following arraignment Wednesday before Magisterial District Judge Richard Lu...

MCKEESPORT (AP) — A man having a “mental health crisis” shot and killed a police officer, wounded a second and fired at a third before being wounded i...

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Crews began releasing toxic chemicals into the air from five derailed tanker cars that were in danger of exploding Monday ...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — “California has the strictest gun laws in the U.S.” That’s what CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell reported as she walked with Gov. G...

The two most common themes of MAGA sorehead emails I received last year were the inevitability of an anti-Biden landslide in 2022, and the certainty o...

SCRANTON (TNS) — Scranton police have charged a Susquehanna County couple with child endangerment after they were accused of locking one of two teenag...