Courts & Law

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.

Promotions are based on staffing needs and approval from the city’s Managing Director’s Office, said Capt. Sekou Kinebrew, a police spokesman, in an email.

The prisoner exchange was a rare diplomatic breakthrough between Tehran and Washington after months of tensions.

After 25 years in prison, David Sheppard received clemency for a second-degree murder charge. But he may have to go back to prison for allegedly stealing jeans in 1992.

A Monmouth County man was convicted Thursday of animal cruelty for leaving a caged dog in a New Jersey bay, prosecutors announced. 

Prosecutors believe the pending cases could gut Pennsylvania’s law, allowing sexually violent predators to evade detection and endangering public safety.

The attorney general said the directives will mean greater transparency in an era of increased scrutiny of the criminal justice system.

The N.J. Department of Corrections has come under fire from criminal justice and public health advocates who say its policy of targeted screening for the virus falls short.