Courts & Law

Campus cops carry guns and cuffs, and they can arrest you. But they aren't held accountable the same way other police are.

A New Jersey man who defrauded Medicare by using the promise of ice cream to lure senior citizens into genetic testing was sentenced Friday to more than four years in prison.

The state House is torn over how to update the system Pennsylvania uses to get judges onto its three highest courts.

A former police cadet says she was constantly harassed at New Jersey State Police Academy.

Desiree Peterkin Bell pleads guilty to theft and will pay nearly $20,000 in restitution. She’ll serve 90 days on house arrest, but avoid prison.

Filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter Edward Zwick discusses his past projects and most recent film, Trial by Fire.

Pa. state House members appear to have decided on a way to overhaul judicial elections. For a few weeks, they have been debating competing bills.

The Justice Department says Daniel Everette Hale, of Nashville, Tenn., used his top-secret computer to print out dozens of documents related to counterterrorism operations.

The U.S. doesn't have an explicit law allowing the federal government to criminally charge extremists with domestic terrorism.

Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina said Wednesday that 39-year-old Mark D'Amico, of Florence, was indicted on six separate charges related to the scheme.

The federal civil rights complaint alleges that Temple police stopped a high school student at gunpoint for doing nothing other than driving while black.

U-Haul wasn’t charged in connection with the 2014 deadly food truck explosion in North Philadelphia, but it is on the hook for more money.

Natural gas driller EQT was fined $330,000 by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for erosion violations at two natural gas sites in Allegheny County.

Ten other states have criminalized sexual extortion within the past two years.

Thomas is now the longest-serving member of a court that has recently gotten more conservative, putting him in a unique and potentially powerful position.