Courts & Law

“Operation Priority Takedown” was initiated amid a historic surge in gun violence in Philadelphia.

The three-month project will require police officers to first ask people to stop engaging in prohibited behavior before they question or detain someone.

Police say the victim, who had just left work at a Center City restaurant, later died of her injuries.

A South Carolina man was convicted Tuesday of the 2019 abduction and murder of a 21-year-old college student from Robbinsville, New Jersey.

Robert Aaron Long, 22, still faces the death penalty in the four other deaths, which are being prosecuted in a different county.

District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer says a Lee Transport Systems employee making a delivery allegedly caused an environmental “catastrophe.”

Leachate is tested for dozens of potential pollutants. But until now, landfills haven't had to test it for radium, a radioactive material common in oil and gas waste.

Philadelphia’s district attorney wants the state’s highest court to alter the instructions jurors hear before rendering verdicts in cases where police use deadly force.

Police say the men were caught after an operation was carried out by a concerned citizens group affiliated with Colorado Ped Patrol, whose members pose as underage children.

Federal officials say they are putting all hands on deck to fight violent crime.

Troy Bailey was convicted of third-degree murder and other offenses in May for fatally shooting Michelle “Tamika” Washington.

Rhode Island legalized supervised injection sites. Will we follow suit? And, Marc Zumoff joins us to discuss his decision to retire and the NBA draft. Plus, zoo vaccinations?

The program dispatches mental health specialists and paramedics instead of police for certain nonviolent emergency calls has resulted in more people accepting assistance.

In May, the justices agreed to consider whether state laws that ban abortions before fetal viability are unconstitutional.

The complaint effectively asks a state judge to allow an ongoing lawsuit against opioid manufacturers to continue, which the settlement jeopardizes.