With just over four months remaining to complete a police reform initiative to submit to the state, Tioga County is preparing to conduct a survey focusing on law enforcement.
Hundreds of Tioga County adults and children are expected to attend an annual Christmas party organized by corrections officers and a community agency.
Law enforcement officials in the Southern Tier are worried a highly-publicized explosive incident may lead more people to experiment with a legal but potentially dangerous product.
Police have found the suspected site of a powerful explosion that was heard over a wide section of New York's Southern Tier and part of northern Pennsylvania.