CHESTER, Pa. (CBS) — The Chester Police Department is dealing with what it calls a critical shortage of officers. The department is down 25 officers, which is bad timing because crime tends to spike ...

CHESTER COUNTY, Pa. (CBS) -- A tactical team of Pennsylvania State Police and U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel closed in on escaped prisoner Danelo Cavalcante as he lay in a wooded area of ...

Anthony Freeman is a lifelong resident of Chester, Pa. He is suing the city’s police department for wrongful arrest and use of excessive force. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) Got a question about life in ...

The hearing centered on Philadelphia’s use of a Chester incinerator to convert a portion of Philly’s trash to energy. The Covanta incinerator, a waste-to-energy facility that burns trash from Delaware ...

During the 1990s, residents in Chester, Pennsylvania, a predominantly poor African-American community, organized a movement to stop the ongoing permitting of waste treatment facilities in their city.

CHESTER — As the city continues with its bankruptcy process meant to eventually financially stabilize it, the receiver gave an update, plus warned about adding industrial projects that could ...