Courts & Law

A jury found that Smukler helped arrange and cover up a $90,000 payoff to one of then U.S. Rep. Bob Brady’s opponents in the 2012 congressional election.

John Kapoor, the 76-year-old former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy after 15 days of jury deliberations.

The Allentown Morning Call reports Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom's parent company settled the suit for an undisclosed amount.

Police have finished testing a backlog of 1,500 rape kits for DNA evidence. Authorities have discovered that more than 60 of those samples match DNA in the police database.

In a legal filing, the agencies said their searches were "a crucial tool for detecting evidence relating to terrorism and other national security matters."

The merit selection concept has been around for years but this version added a provision in which judges are picked from three legislatively-drawn judicial districts.

University's former leader, Graham Spanier, had been scheduled to begin serving two months in jail Wednesday in connection with the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

An Ocean County man is facing numerous charges after a police officer was struck and injured by a car that authorities say was driven by the target of an investigation.

A look at the state of civil asset forfeiture laws in Philly, Pennsylvania, and nationwide.

A federal judge threw out former Penn State President Graham Spanier's misdemeanor child-endangerment conviction on Tuesday.

The lawsuit filed Monday in state court does not seek monetary damages from the Boy Scouts of America.

Some attorneys say storing guns brings too much risk or is just too big of a hassle.

Pollution controls were off-line for over three months following a Christmas Eve fire.

Dennis Deska is not considered competent enough to stand trial for aggravated assault, but he still went to jail — not a psychiatric hospital.

The first intelligence brief from India arrived April 4, more than two weeks before the bombings.