Courts & Law

Wesley Allen Beeler presented unauthorized inauguration credentials Friday night, police said. Beeler admitted to having the handgun in his pickup truck, according to police.

Two of the so-called “forever chemicals” have entered groundwater on and surrounding the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst and at two other bases at Trenton and Earle.

Higgs had been sentenced to death for the 1996 killings of three women in Maryland, which has since abolished the death penalty.

The department’s homicide clearance rate dropped significantly last year. Police say shooters wearing face masks is a big reason why.

The security firm employee had been charged in connection with an alleged bribery scheme related to Mariner East pipeline construction in Chester County.

Joseph Bologna was arrested in June after a baton-beating video went viral.

The investigation will examine whether information was shared by the Justice Dept. to agencies, including the Capitol Police, about the potential for violence.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a review confirming Trump administration officials knew its policy would separate children from their families at the U.S. border.

Joshua Macias and Antonio LaMotta, who drove up from Virginia, will still stand trial on election-related offenses in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia police will be staffed in case of emergency Saturday through Inauguration Day. Commissioner Outlaw says other law enforcement are on call.

Kevin Seefried and his son Hunter face federal charges stemming from the storming of what President-elect Biden calls the “cradle of liberty.”

His alleged crime appears to be separate from a different high-profile incident, in which Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was struck and killed.

McSwain, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, was known for echoing the president’s priorities.

Getting hit by a rubber bullet helped Judith Max Palmer understand the wanton violence that Black communities experience too often at the hands of police.

The attorney general's office wrote in a Monday letter to Judge John Boccabella that no legal impediment prevents him from enforcing the minimum jail sentence of two months.