Courts & Law

A resolution clearing the way was approved by Wilmington City Council. Questions about how to recruit a more diverse class delayed the step last fall.

Prior to her stint as commissioner, Christine Coulter was a three-star deputy commissioner heading organizational services and the highest-ranking woman in the department.

Former Officer Saqueta Williams appeared in “Free Meek” because she’s on the DA’s “Do Not Call” list.

The new partnership between the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL, and the NAACP comes just weeks after a fatal shooting at a Jewish deli in Jersey City.

A jury found White not guilty of manslaughter, but convicted him of evidence tampering for tossing his knife onto a rooftop and trashing bloody clothing.

Pennsylvania state parole officers were serving the man a warrant for his arrest for violations of his parole.

The brief filed Thursday with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court focuses on four key trial issues.

Philly’s new police commissioner is named Danielle Outlaw. As the first Black woman in the post, she's making history. But we knew there had to be something more to the name.

Prosecutors said they would drop a 1992 case over stolen jeans that had threatened to send David Sheppard back to prison after he served 25 years.

The Philadelphia Police Department used to routinely include mental health information in its public missing persons reports — until one reporter started asking why.

A PA Post review of county jails' commissaries finds that Muslim prisoners meet financial barriers to practicing their religion.

A Middletown man was arrested on charges of tossing an incendiary device outside the clinic near the University of Delaware in Newark.

Ryan Pownall is accused of fatally shooting Jones after a routine traffic stop in North Philly in 2017. His trial, which was scheduled to start Monday, has been postponed.

The Hollywood mogul has been charged with raping one woman and sexually assaulting another in separate incidents over a two-day period in 2013.

Agreement lifts permit freeze for Energy Transfer's Mariner East