Courts & Law

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

The governor wants to require that time-and-a-half be paid to anyone who makes $45,000 or less and works more than 40 hours in a week.

The shooting happened about 10:30 p.m. in the 5600 block of Frontenac St. in the Summerdale section.

Incoming Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw says she won’t tolerate violence “under the guise” of free speech.

A summer of protests called for changes to Philly police. Mayor Kenney did hear those calls and the selection of Danielle Outlaw as the police commissioner is a result.

Incoming PPD Commissioner Danielle Outlaw made quite an impression at City Hall.

Lawyers for the suspect in the synagogue shooting that killed 11 people in Pittsburgh have challenged the potential death sentence as unconstitutional.