Courts & Law

The Pennsylvania Department of Health has revoked Hahnemann University Hospital’s state license.

A federal judge put on hold a Trump administration rule requiring immigrants prove they will have health insurance or can pay for medical care before they can get visas.

Authors say the system is expensive, ineffective and harmful for Pennsylvania youth.

VisionQuest, the controversial facility for immigrant minors, has been given the greenlight to reopen after a judge rules zoning permits were wrongly denied.

"The last place I thought that I was going to get help was a courtroom," one woman said.

The only African American director in the agency alleges she has been treated differently than her peers and touched without her consent.

Law enforcement officials announced charges against 22 defendants, all of whom, they say, belong to a pair of Chester-based drug gangs.

Laboratory analysis shows heroin was found in a child's bag at a southern New Jersey trunk or treat event.

Dougherty and his co-defendants, including Councilmember Bobby Henon, will appear before a judge in September 2020.

Dion Wilson had been profane and angry at earlier meetings but that didn’t give Hanifa Shabazz to deny him the right to address members Sept. 19.

The swing vote for decades on the U.S. Supreme Court, Anthony Kennedy was awarded the Liberty Medal in Philadelphia. He called for tolerance and civic discourse.

Measure would benefit aging veterans who now lose $250 property-tax deduction when they move to a retirement community.

At issue is whether the state should have reduced funds to employers who hire people with intellectual disabilities.

Chief Judge Beryl Howell signed an opinion that rejected the Justice Department's argument that it must preserve the secrecy of grand jury and other material.

In 2015 Tamika Montgomery-Reeves became Delaware Chancery Court’s first black member. The governor just nominated her to break the race barrier on the Supreme Court.