Courts & Law

Elected district attorneys who work closely with police decide whether officers should be charged and rarely refer cases to the state attorney general.

Activists opposed to the jury's acquittal gathered in several cities across the country, including Chicago, New York, and Oakland. Authorities in Portland declared a riot.

According to public documents and interviews with a dozen prisoners and employees in the Florida prison system, guards openly tout associations with white supremacist groups.

Go to jury duty and vote for judges. That’s the advice Andre D. Carroll offered his fellow Black Americans after a jury found Rittenhouse not guilty.

Kyle Rittenhouse has been acquitted of all charges after pleading self-defense in the deadly Kenosha shootings.

Philadelphia’s District Attorney filed charges against four teens, a day after a racist attack against Asian high school students on the Broad Street Line.

The 23-year-old Black massage therapist died days after an encounter with police in August 2019.

Two mistrial requests from the defense are hanging over the politically and racially fraught case.

Lt. Nathan Roohr cooperated with the FBI to secretly record his former boss, then-Bordentown Police Chief Frank Nucera Jr. for nine months in 2016.

The South 8th Street blast left two men dead and destroyed five rowhouses. Lawyers say the “painstakingly obvious problem” of unprotected gas pipelines remains unaddressed.

SEPTA announced it is also installing a police escort service for students at Olney Station, effective immediately.

Authorities obscured the last 4 seconds of Christian Hall’s life in publicly released videos. New footage shows the teenager had his hands up when Pa. State Police killed him.

The trials of Kyle Rittenhouse and the three men accused of killing of Ahmaud Arbery raise important questions about self-defense, vigilantism, racial bias and gun rights.

Judge Bruce Schroeder did not immediately rule on the request, which stemmed from the defense's assertion that it received an inferior copy of a potentially critical video.