Courts & Law

Officials from states with strong gun restrictions have called for stricter firearm control in places with weaker laws to thwart traffickers.

The latest lawsuit claims 11 violations of Pa.’s state constitution and election code.

After seven people left an Energy Transfer construction site, their car was pulled over. One occupant was pulled out of the back seat and cuffed.

Firefighters Christopher Leach, Ardythe Hope and Jerry Fickes died after the floor collapsed and they tumbled into the burning basement on Sept. 24, 2016.

Psychiatry, public health and law enforcement leaders — including Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner — are taking a “not if, but when” approach.

The civil complaint alleges that an officer hit the woman in the face, then conspired with two other officers to falsely arrest her.

Two New Jersey reporters found that blacks are still arrested at higher rates for cocaine than whites are for opioids.

The program connects high-risk victims with an advocate.

If it’s not a scheduled buyback event, Philly Police require ID.

ICE has twice denied requests to tour the Berks County Residential Center, where people are being kept for months while they await administrative hearings.

A day after the bloodshed, there are growing suspicions it was an anti-Semitic attack.

A Pennsylvania appeals court rejected Bill Cosby’s bid to overturn his sexual assault conviction Tuesday over the trial judge’s decision to let five other accusers testify.

More than $12 billion is at stake for the nation's health insurers Tuesday when the Supreme Court hears a case involving the Affordable Care Act.

A man is now free despite decades-old shoplifting charges that threatened to keep him in prison even after he received a rare commutation.

The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a Kentucky law requiring doctors to perform ultrasounds and show fetal images to patients before abortions.