Pennsylvania State Police

EASTON, Pa. - An expired car registration has landed a man back in prison after 25 years on the lam, police said. Alfred Libiano, 64, of Easton, who walked away from work release at the Northampton County Prison on May 9, 1986, was arrested by Pennsylvania State Police during a traffic stop in Monroe County. - AP  

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - You're walking through the Sands casino, perhaps a little lighter in the wallet from a bad run at the tables, when you look down and see a crisp $100 bill lying on the carpet. If you think your luck just changed, you'd be wrong, because if you stuff that bill in your pocket, you may be arrested. There's no finders-keepers rule in Pennsylvania's casinos. "It's a little different in here," said Sgt. Robert Caprari, commander of the Pennsylvania State Police office at Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem.

FOR THE CAUSE: More than 30 members of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union demonstrated yesterday at noon in front of the State Office building at Broad and Spring Garden streets. Pennsylvania State Police arrested 11 demonstrators for disorderly conduct. In the photo below, union leader Cheri Honkala (right) sits in a police van with another demonstrator before they were taken to the Belmont Barracks, where they were processed and released.

One person was killed and another injured Tuesday evening in an accident on I-95 on the Scudder Falls Bridge crossing the Delaware River into New Jersey, Pennsylvania State Police said. The accident occurred shortly after 6 p.m. on the northbound lanes of the bridge, state police said. One person was pronounced dead at the scene, and a woman was taken to an area hospital. The extent of her injuries was not available. The accident, which was under investigation by the state police, tied up traffic on the bridge for several hours.

Pennsylvania State Police from the Embreeville barracks are continuing to investigate the death a man found yesterday in a burning car in Charlestown Township. Troopers responding to a reported vehicle fire at 5:18 p.m. Wednesday at 3285 Phoenixville Pike found a 2005 red Ford Focus "fully involved in fire," police said. Inside the vehicle they saw the body. The decedent has not been identified pending an autopsy, and the probe into the cause of death and the origin of the fire is continuing, police said.

One man was killed early Easter morning in a shooting on the Schuylkill Expressway near the Montgomery Drive exit that closed the highway for three hours. Police said they do not believe the shooting was random. Police have identified the victim as Kareem El, 29, hometown unknown. El was driving a silver 1997 Buick LeSabre eastbound on the highway about 2:50 a.m. when an unknown vehicle pulled up along its passenger side and fired numerous shots inside, according to Pennsylvania State Police.

A Philadelphia truck driver was being held in the Burlington County jail yesterday after leading police on a chase that began in Bristol Friday night, crossed a bridge to New Jersey, and ended when he allegedly struck a Pennsylvania State Police car. Nathaniel Larry Dotson, 51, is charged with eluding a police officer, resisting arrest, reckless and careless driving, failure to stop at a red light, leaving the scene of an accident, possession of...

The smashed-up car of a New Jersey man stands in front of the King of Prussia service plaza after police were led on a 100-mile chase late Sunday night. Pennsylvania State Police said Andrew A. Davis, 32, fled after the Neptune City Police Department was called to his house on a domestic abuse complaint. The chase ended when the car sideswiped a state police car in King of Prussia. The troopers inside were unharmed and Davis was treated for a bruise. Davis was charged with fleeing an officer and driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance, among other charges.

Ten people were killed and 172 were injured in crashes investigated by Pennsylvania State Police over the four-day New Year's Day holiday driving period. Between Friday and Monday, the agency investigated 552 crashes, Commissioner Frank Noonan said in a statement Tuesday. During the same period a year ago, 11 people were killed and 220 injured in 693 crashes investigated by the state police. This year, 79 of the crashes were alcohol-related and police said troopers made 285 arrests for driving under the influence - along with 3,408 speeding citations, according to state police.

A Philadelphia man working at a Department of Transportation office in Chester County has been arrested for allegedly providing driver's licenses to fugitives from justice, the Pennsylvania State Police said Wednesday. Khalif Abdullah Ali, 43, was a supervisor at the Malvern Driver License Center in 2010 and 2011 when he allegedly provided the phony licenses, state police said. Ali was charged with conspiracy to commit identity theft, tampering with public records or information, and related offenses.

A PARAMEDIC sparked a panic Tuesday morning when he reported that his co-worker kidnapped him as the pair drove an ambulance through several northwest Philadelphia neighborhoods. Police put out a bulletin on the ambulance, and Cheltenham Township police spotted it and stopped it at 2nd Street and Cheltenham Avenue. Turns out, the driver had just gotten fired, announced that he didn't have a way home and so would drive the ambulance home, taking his apparently unwilling passenger, another paramedic, along in order to return the ambulance, said Trooper Danea Durham, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania State Police, which assisted.

Two people were injured Tuesday afternoon when burglary suspects fleeing state troopers caused a three-vehicle accident in Delaware County, Pennsylvania State Police said. The accident occurred about 3:45 p.m. at Route 352 and Knowlton Road in Middletown Township, state police said. One suspect, Keith Kilpatrick, 23, ran from the scene but was quickly caught, state police said. The second suspect, Brittany Kerr, 22, suffered serious injuries and was taken to an area hospital. At least one other person in the other vehicles suffered minor injuries.

One man was killed early Easter morning in a shooting on the Schuylkill Expressway near the Montgomery Drive exit that closed the highway for three hours. Police said they do not believe the shooting was random. Police have identified the victim as Kareem El, 29, hometown unknown. El was driving a silver 1997 Buick LeSabre eastbound on the highway about 2:50 a.m. when an unknown vehicle pulled up along its passenger side and fired numerous shots inside, according to Pennsylvania State Police.

A Maryland man who led police on a chase Monday that spilled into Chester County - where a school district was locked down all day - is safely behind bars, Maryland authorities said Tuesday. Eric J. Peirson, 41, of North East, was captured about 4:30 p.m. Monday near his home, several hours after Pennsylvania State Police issued an all-clear to the Oxford Area School District. The district's schools had been locked down most of the day as a precaution after Peirson fled on foot from police outside Oxford Borough.

A Maryland man who led police on a chase Monday that spilled into Chester County - where a school district was locked down all day - is safely behind bars, Maryland authorities said today. Eric J. Peirson, 41, of North East, was apprehended about 4:30 p.m. Monday near his home. That was several hours after Pennsylvania State Police issued an all-clear to the Oxford Area School District, which had been locked down since 8:45 a.m. as a precaution after Peirson fled on foot from police outside Oxford Borough.

A Philadelphia man working at a Department of Transportation office in Chester County has been arrested for allegedly providing driver's licenses to fugitives from justice, the Pennsylvania State Police said Wednesday. Khalif Abdullah Ali, 43, was a supervisor at the Malvern Driver License Center in 2010 and 2011 when he allegedly provided the phony licenses, state police said. Ali was charged with conspiracy to commit identity theft, tampering with public records or information, and related offenses.

More than two years ago, a 14-year-old girl was raped in Chester County, a case that went unsolved until a recent DNA match, authorities said Wednesday. Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan and the Pennsylvania State Police filed rape, kidnapping, and related charges against Maynard G. Church, 38, formerly of Oxford. Hogan said the assault occurred Sept. 27, 2009, in East Nottingham Township, where the girl lived. He said the teen was walking along Little Elk Creek Road when a stranger approached her and tried to engage her in conversation.

An Upper Darby man shot himself in the head at a Delaware County shooting range on Valentine's Day, authorities said, the second suicide there in six months. According to the Delaware County Office of the Medical Examiner, Isaiah James Jones, 25, shot himself in the bathroom of the Targetmaster Indoor Gun Range in Chadds Ford around 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Pennsylvania State Police had not released any information on the incident as of last night. On Aug. 22, police said, a 22-year-old West Chester man killed himself at the gun range.

Pennsylvania State Police from the Embreeville barracks are continuing to investigate the death a man found yesterday in a burning car in Charlestown Township. Troopers responding to a reported vehicle fire at 5:18 p.m. Wednesday at 3285 Phoenixville Pike found a 2005 red Ford Focus "fully involved in fire," police said. Inside the vehicle they saw the body. The decedent has not been identified pending an autopsy, and the probe into the cause of death and the origin of the fire is continuing, police said.