PORTLAND, Ore. — Multnomah County’s library system is entering a new chapter, marked by sweeping renovations, new branches, and a focus on safety. In an interview on KGW’s "Straight Talk," Library ...

A family in Middletown safely escaped a house fire early Thursday morning thanks to smoke detectors. Firefighters arrived to find heavy flames and had to switch to a defensive strategy to control the ...

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan (PIX11) — The FDNY’s campaign to help save lives is returning for the tenth year. The “Get Alarmed NYC” program offers free smoke detectors and installation by officials ...

Two men died after a fire broke out early Saturday morning in a home in Chelmsford. Fire officials said the home on Mobile Avenue had no working smoke detectors. "This is a very sad day for our ...

Researchers have designed a new type of gravitational wave detector that operates in the milli-Hertz range, a region untouched by current observatories. Built with optical resonators and atomic clocks ...

In their search for dark matter, scientists from the XENON Collaboration are using one of the world's most sensitive dark matter detectors, XENONnT at the Gran Sasso Laboratory of the National ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — As worries of weapons, drugs and illegal activity persist, leaders at Portland’s downtown Central Library are looking at whether weapons detectors are necessary. There are both ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center has installed new weapon detectors at nearly all of its public buildings following two incidents last year in which weapons were ...

WATERBURY - The device looks similar to a typical home smoke detector: it's white, round and mounted on ceilings. City school officials say the HALOs have been worth the investment. "It's been ...

One of Oregon’s largest school districts is adding weapons detectors and other security measures across its middle schools. Last year, Salem-Keizer Public Schools reduced the number of entrances and ...

The Salem-Keizer School District will install weapons detection systems in all 12 of its middle schools, a year after the district became the first in the state to place the technology in all of its ...