Courts & Law

The jury has found former Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian not guilty on all charges resulting from his role in a deadly 2015 train derailment.

A federal judge in Philadelphia has approved new rules that seek to eliminate racial bias in the testing and payout of NFL concussion claims.

The court agreed with the Biden administration’s arguments that a federal appeals court was wrong to throw out the sentence of death a jury imposed.

In closing statements, prosecutors argued that Bostian “knew where he was” but accelerated his train anyway, while the defense urged understanding for a mistake.

The Delaware County Coalition to Abolish Death by Incarceration rallied to demand that the district attorney address his failures, or step down.

Officer James Pitts is accused of forcing a confession out of a man who couldn’t have been involved in the crime.

The deal reached Thursday would require members of the Sackler family who own the drugmaker to pay as much as $6 billion in cash.

The jury on Thursday found Brett Hankison not guilty of three counts of wanton endangerment for firing shots that ripped into a neighboring apartment.

As mask mandates and vaccine requirements are lifted due to falling COVID numbers, in-person visitation will start again March 7.

The Driving Equality Law was crafted after data confirmed these kinds of violations overwhelmingly affect Black drivers.

At issue is a fundamental question: Who has the power to determine how elections are run?

Plaintiffs will argue that the state has not done enough to properly integrate public schools.

Police shot and killed a 12-year-old boy in South Philadelphia on Tuesday night after their unmarked police vehicle was struck by gunfire.

The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office rested its case against the Amtrak engineer accused in 2015’s deadly derailment.

Officials say the 12-year-old was in possession of a stolen 9MM, semi-automatic handgun, recovered from the scene.