Crime & Safety
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Pennsylvania health officials warn of stronger substance sweeping the drug market
Poison control centers statewide are seeing more people suffer from overdose-like symptoms of popular drug products, and federal health officials are pressing for restrictions on how they are made.
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A Pennsylvania mom turns grief into a call to regulate social media and protect kids from online predators
“Right now we require standards for toys, car seats, food, but the platforms and devices that our children spend hours a day on have literally no standards.”
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State police, emergency management score additional funding in Pa.’s budget
State police will get an additional $69.3 million for operations, enough to fund four new cadet classes to increase its ranks. Staffing is critical for the 1,279 municipalities that don’t have police departments and rely solely on troopers for their law enforcement needs.
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Should ICE agents be allowed to mask? Not in Pa., state senators say
Pennsylvania Sens. Amanda Cappelletti and Nikil Saval, both Democrats, have introduced a bill that would prohibit ICE officials from masking while on the job in the commonwealth, saying the practice damages trust in law enforcement and enables police impersonation.
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York County cop endured more trauma than most police & now works to help officers get help
The need for counseling services for police is particularly in focus this year. Four police officers have been killed in the line of duty in York County – West York Officer Andrew Duarte, killed during a hostage situation at UPMC Memorial Hospital, and Northern York County Regional Police Detectives Mark Baker, Cody Becker and Isaiah…
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Mass murderer George Banks, spared from death penalty, dies in prison 43 years after Wilkes-Barre rampage
Banks, 83, died Sunday afternoon at Phoenix state prison in Pennsylvania, the state Department of Corrections said. Banks died of complications from renal neoplasm, or kidney cancer.
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Bucks County man charged with ethnic intimidation of Hanover church after Auschwitz float controversy
Joseph William Gilleo II, 28, of Morrisville in Bucks County, was charged with felony counts of ethnic intimidation and terroristic threats to cause serious public inconvenience, as well as misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and harassment.
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Pa. attorney general lists drug charges against 14 from Somerset, Cambria counties
Law enforcement seized significant quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl and other controlled substances and illegal firearms in the investigation, which took place this year, mainly in Somerset County, and included surveillance, controlled buys and search warrants.
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The amount of fentanyl seized in Pennsylvania this year set to surpass last year’s figures
Fentanyl has replaced heroin as the opioid most commonly found in Pennsylvania, state Attorney General Dave Sunday said.
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1962 Bristol church murder of Carol Ann Dougherty finally solved. DA reveals killer
At an afternoon news conference in Doylestown, DA Jennifer Schorn released a grand jury report alleging William Schrader raped and strangled Carol in the choir loft at St. Mark Roman Catholic Church on Oct. 22, 1962. She was 9 years old.
