Courts & Law

In their new book, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh, New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly detail what's already known about Kavanaugh.

A 6-year-old claims a stranger approached her and placed a paper bag over her head outside her Monmouth County home.

Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Sunday night

Under the bill, people convicted of first-degree murder — intentionally killing another person — would be eligible for parole after serving 35 years.

More than two years after a deadly riot at a Delaware prison, the final three inmates were sentenced in court.

Sniff and search is no longer the default for police in some of the 33 states that have legalized marijuana.

Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced the sealed Commonwealth Court lawsuit on Thursday.

The April DUI was the second one for which Representative John Galloway, a Bucks County Democrat, had been convicted. He had a blood alcohol level of around .16.

Jeffrey Blackwell was a former employee at the City Controller’s office.

Pennsylvania’s high court will consider whether it’s unconstitutional to sentence certain juveniles to 50 years behind bars.

Attorneys for some 2,000 local governments say they have agreed to a tentative settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over the toll of the nation's opioid crisis.

The Pa. Supreme Court will consider whether the state's death penalty statute amounts to cruel, arbitrary punishment that's too often reserved for black and poor defendants.

The use of civil asset forfeiture increased slightly in Philadelphia last year, despite the election of District Attorney Larry Krasner, a critic of the practice.

The first public hearing about the social media database this week was nearly eclipsed by all the other Philly police scandals this summer.

"The Sacklers refused to budge," the email concluded, "and have declined to offer any counterproposal."