Last month, three Ohio lawmakers sent a letter to the state corrections director saying the main jail is overcrowded.

Angela Mueller said her fight for answers about her son's escape from prison and subsequent death has been full of dead ends.

The county will spend $216,000 on a feasibility study of Dauphin County Prison, with most funding coming from a state grant.

Multiple law enforcement agencies carried out a drug bust in Butler on Thursday. The investigation was centered around a house in the 500 block of Federal Street, Pennsylvania State Police say.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested 36 undocumented immigrants in collaboration with the Butler County ...

The man accused of stabbing a Butler County deputy was arraigned on new charges Friday morning. Phillip Lovely, 41, was indicted Wednesday on charges of attempted aggravated murder, felonious assault, ...

Law enforcement detained eight people Thursday, Feb. 12, while executing a search warrant on a Federal Street residence in ...

Grand juries, which meet in secret, review criminal charges brought by police and prosecutors and investigate possible criminal behavior. The proceedings are usually one-sided because the ...

Caged in a cell, Jerad Traylor struggled to breathe and cried out for help, pleading that he felt like he was dying. And it turned out his feelings of despair were exactly right. Four days after his ...

VOTERS. CARLOS. WELL, JANELLE. MICHELLE. THAT’S RIGHT. POLLS OPEN AT 7 A.M. THIS MORNING. AND OF COURSE, THERE ARE SEVERAL KEY RACES ON THE BALLOT. AND WE ALSO WANTED TO BREAK DOWN SOME IMPORTANT ...