Courts & Law

The 40 civil cases, which included 16 of the 17 families of those killed in the 2018 mass shooting, accused the FBI of negligence.

The ruling Wednesday comes after a Cook County judge sentenced Smollett last week to immediately begin serving 150 days in jail for his conviction.

Pennsylvania’s highest court has affirmed the state’s new legislative district maps and rejected final legal challenges to them.

A Muslim athletic trainer claims she was fired by a private girls school in Bryn Mawr over years-old social media posts criticizing Israel.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said there was insufficient evidence to charge the officers in the deaths.

A U.S. magistrate judge issued a recommendation Friday that said denying the New York Times access to what police collected could be seen as government censorship.

Pennsylvania as a whole currently has 1,229 vacant police positions across the state.

Patrolman Brandon Cooper is now off the force and faces up to 26 years in prison if convicted on all charges, which include official misconduct and lewdness.

Building on SB 8 in Texas, some GOP lawmakers are trying a new strategy: pushing bills that would attempt to limit what residents can and can't do even beyond state lines.

Students who were deprived of special education services while incarcerated are eligible to receive up to $8,000 per year in “compensatory education” benefits.

DA Larry Krasner says hiring more prosecutors and more investigators is just the start to resolving a major criminal case backlog in the city.

Bryant was killed in April by Columbus police officer Nicholas Reardon as she swung a knife at another young woman. Bryant was Black and Reardon is white.

The injunction broadens District Judge Amy Clark Meachum’s earlier order blocking the state’s investigation of the parents of one transgender teenager.

Family members told a news conference in Jackson, Mississippi, that authorities have known for decades that Carolyn Bryant Donham played a key role in Till’s slaying.

Texas abortion providers say their best hope of stopping the nation’s most restrictive abortion law is all but over.