Courts & Law

Five onetime state inmates have killed six people since May. It’s unclear if there’s a pattern.

The Group Violence Intervention program, used with success in other cities, offers social services to certain street-crime offenders instead of arrest.

A Delaware County pipeline foe thought he’d get PUC information on the Mariner East risk, but now he’ll have to fight for it in court.

A new effort is brewing between city and state officials to reboot the law enforcement strategy known as “focused deterrence” to reduce gun violence in Philadelphia.

Cosby's lawyers have raised a long list of alleged trial errors as they try to get last year's verdict overturned.

Once-thorough descriptions of alleged PPD misconduct were reduced to a single sentence.

Pennsylvania's attorney general is trying to convince firearms dealers and police precincts around the commonwealth to do a more effective job tracking guns.

Model and TV personality Janice Dickinson called a settlement in her defamation lawsuit against the now imprisoned Bill Cosby a victory that brings a measure of justice.

Delaware’s Office of Animal Welfare warns pet owners of heat dangers, after dog died when left outside last week. A Milford woman has been charged.

After two weeks in ICE custody, Irish national Keith Byrne, who had been living in Montco for more than a decade, will be released on a judge’s orders.

The Delco DA’s Office says Nikolaos Tzima Hatziefstathiou, 25, faked the premises of articles, doctored government documents, and impersonated the press.

County governments in N.J. want to overturn a controversial state vote-by-mail law critics say confuses voters and unnecessarily costs taxpayer dollars.

The rules include requirements to clean up well sites shortly after drilling activities end and to make sure nearby abandoned wells aren’t contaminated by new drilling.

A Pennsylvania appeals court has thrown out rapper Meek Mill's decade-old conviction in a drug and gun case.

A 39-year-old woman died Sunday when she was ejected from a small boat in Atlantic County and struck by the propeller, authorities say.