{"id":317773,"date":"2026-10-30T18:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317773\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:10:09","slug":"suspicious-substance-found-at-government-building-in-west-chester-pennsylvania-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317773\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious substance found at government building in West Chester, Pennsylvania, under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation into a suspicious substance is underway Friday in West Chester, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The substance was found at the Chester County government building at Market Street and Potter Alley. Hazardous materials crews responded to the scene shortly after 10 a.m.  <\/p>\n<p>Chester County emergency officials said no one was taken to the hospital and the area has reopened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chester County officials are expected to share an update during a news conference at 2 p.m. Friday. You can watch live in the player on this story or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@cbsphiladelphia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CBS News Philadelphia&#8217;s YouTube page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Chester County District Attorney&#8217;s Office is handling the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story that will be updated.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation into a suspicious substance is underway Friday in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The substance was found at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1557,836,28,30,29,126893],"class_list":["post-317773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-chester-county","tag-election","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-suspicious-package"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}