
Courts & Law
A voter’s guide to 2021 court elections in Bucks, Montco, Delco, and Chester counties
An overview of the judicial candidates in Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware, and Chester counties for the May 18, 2021 primary.
4 years ago
Philly’s gun violence epidemic the top issue at Krasner, Vega debate
Philadelphia’s gun violence epidemic took center stage during a heated, wide-ranging debate between the two Democrats running to become the city’s next district attorney.
4 years ago
DA’s Conviction Integrity Unit gains exoneration in 2010 murder case
The Conviction Integrity Unit found police beat Obina Onyiah to coerce a confession in the slaying of a Lawncrest jewelry store owner William Glatz.
4 years ago
Chauvin’s lawyer seeks new trial, impeachment of verdict
Derek Chauvin was convicted last month of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the May 25 death of George Floyd.
4 years ago
Wilmington Police to launch department-wide bodycam program next month
Just days after a state task force urged use of body cameras for all Delaware police officers, Wilmington police will start training on the cams next week.
4 years ago
Philadelphia man charged with stealing 14 homes through deed theft
Such fraud is fueled by a white-hot real estate market, said Assistant District Attorney Kimberly Esack, with the office’s Economic Crimes unit.
4 years ago
UPenn hires lawyer who led 1985 MOVE commission to investigate handling of remains
Carl E. Singley works at Tucker Law Group, considered the region’s largest Black-owned firm.
4 years ago
Appeals court rejects environmentalists’ call to halt Pinelands pipeline
The court accepted that the pipeline poses no threat to the sickle-leaved golden aster, a rare plant, if construction avoided horizontal directional drilling,
4 years ago
The votes are a far cry from getting new laws enacted. But they signal consensus by legislators, citizens, and law enforcement that change is needed.
4 years ago
Philly teen arrested in connection to 4 murders, including fatal shooting on prison grounds
Police say Ameer Hurst, 16, shot and killed Rodney Hargrove, 20, last month less than an hour after Hargrove was released from Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility.
4 years ago
More charges, but no word on N.J. prison investigations
Ten officers and supervisors face criminal charges after a violent assault at New Jersey’s only women’s prison.
4 years ago
Wary Supreme Court weighs Pa. student’s Snapchat profanity case
The current dispute stems from Tinker v. Des Moines, the Vietnam-era case of a high school in Des Moines, Iowa.
4 years ago
SCOTUS hears arguments in eminent domain case involving PennEast pipeline project
The 116-mile pipeline would ship Marcellus Shale gas from Luzerne County in Northeast Pennsylvania across the Delaware River to Mercer County, New Jersey.
4 years ago
U.S. indicts 3 on hate crime charges in death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia
The Justice Department announced federal hate crime charges Wednesday in the death of a Georgia man who was killed while out for a run last year.
4 years ago
Federal lawsuit filed against New Castle County over police killing of Lymond Moses in Wilmington
Police say Lymond Moses drove at a high rate of speed ‘directly’ at officers, but a lawsuit says bodycam footage undermines that account and shows officers were in no danger.
4 years ago