Courts & Law

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.

After seven years of waiting and months of oral arguments, the first phase of this historic trial ended Thursday.

Jussie Smollett has been sentenced to 150 days in jail for lying to police in a racist and homophobic attack that he staged himself.

Sunoco Pipeline LP, developer of the Mariner East pipeline network, plans to appeal the decision to the five-member PUC.

Once Delaware County assumes control over DELCORA’s assets, it will be up to the Public Utility Commission to decide if the deal should proceed.

The record-setting bust in southern Delaware resulted in 44 arrests and the seizure of more than 330,000 bags of heroin.

On his first anniversary as attorney general, Merrick Garland said he's committed to unraveling the conspiracy behind the storming of the U.S. Capitol.