Chester County

Halloween came early in West Chester as goblins, ghouls and ghosts celebrated the nearly 50-year fun and festive parade in the county seat.

At least a month before a convicted murderer escaped from a southeastern Pennsylvania prison, eluding a massive manhunt for two weeks before he was recaptured, a prison guard had warned that he was planning an escape, according to an email exchange made public this week.

Chester County District Attorney’s Office announced the arrest of a correctional officer on Tuesday, who they say smuggled and distributed illegal substances into the prison where he worked.

Authorities said an argument between the victim and the suspect began inside a bar in Phoenixville. They were both thrown out of the bar, because of the argument.

The Chester County District Attorney’s Office arrested basketball coach and trainer, Zachary Ray, 31, of Wynnewood, PA, in connection to the sexual abuse of three child victims he trained.

Mario Che-Tiul, 34, was taken into custody at a Chester County apartment after he and five other escaped a Missouri jail in June. The arrest comes a week after the frantic manhunt for Danelo Cavalcante came to and end.

Neighbors from communities across Chester County packed a meeting Wednesday held by the county's board of prisons, nearly a week after the frantic manhunt for escaped killer Danelo Cavalcante came to an end.

A raging blaze spread through a number of business and apartments last week, displacing at least 90 residents as it burned an entire city block in a Chester County town.

Officials from Chester County Prison shared photos of improvements that were made to areas where two inmates, including Danelo Cavalcante, managed to escape.

A big grand opening Saturday in Malvern, but it was not a typical ribbon cutting, as a Chester County teen is the brainchild behind a budding business and growing non-profit.

As a 4-alarm fire raged in the heart of Oxford, two police officers, Karilanna Eller and Scott Richards, responded to the fire alarm and quickly ran into harms way, looking for residents in the various upstairs apartments.

Police are saying they've ‘gotta catch ’em all' after two people stole hundreds in Pokémon cards from a Chester County toy store last weekend.

Aerial video captured by FOX 29 on the morning authorities captured an escaped killer showed tactical officers posing for a group photo with the handcuffed convict.

Recaptured murderer Danelo Cavalcante told investigators he planned to carjack a vehicle and flee the country as he felt the manhunt intensify around him, law enforcement sources said.