Courts & Law

A former employee of a chemical company spun off from the DuPont Co. has pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal trade secrets and sell them to Chinese investors.

By many metrics, Atlantic County is at the epicenter of the opioid epidemic in New Jersey. It saw its rate of overdose deaths double in 2016.

They're calling for officer who fired fatal shot to be criminally charged. The city's district attorney's office is investigating.

The Philadelphia Police Department updated its policy on when to arrest people accused of trespassing on private property.

Gov. Wolf touts the rules, which apply only to new wells.

Guests: Evan Thornburg, David Cole This week the Supreme Court decided in favor of the Colorado baker who refused ...

An Ocean County investment manager was sentenced Thursday to a lengthy prison term for stealing more than $400,000 from clients, state authorities announced.

Police are increasingly using the charge of drug delivery resulting in death to target street heroin dealers.

Elizabeth Geyer has been talking herself hoarse trying to change Pennsylvania’s criminal justice laws. She says a bill stalled i ...

Anthony Wright was granted a new trial in the 1991 slaying on the basis of new DNA evidence, and a jury acquitted him in 2016.

Mayor Jim Kenney declares U.S. ruling “total and complete victory” for Philadelphia.

Pennsylvania law makes it near-impossible to sue farms for nuisances like smells.

The case has moved to the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Prosecutors say officers involved in the violent arrest of a Philadelphia woman accused of underage drinking at a New Jersey beach over t ...