Courts & Law

U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton signed an order Monday for Bill Baroni's release. He was serving an 18-month sentence.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health has confirmed it will put an independent monitor in place to oversee Hahnemann University Hospital’s closure.

Act 79 took effect in April – and already, some counties are noticing an impact on weapon storage capacity and/or manpower.

Facebook says it will make advertisements for jobs, loans and credit card offers searchable for all U.S. users following a settlement designed to eliminate discrimination.

Penn Medicine has agreed to pay $275,000 to the Department of Justice to settle allegations that Lancaster General Hospital submitted false claims to Medicaid

American research universities are being encouraged to develop protocols for monitoring students and visiting scholars from Chinese state-affiliated research institutions.

A federal lawsuit has been filed on behalf of workers recently laid off from their jobs at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in South Philadelphia.

An avowed white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters during a white nationalist rally has been sentenced to life in prison on hate crime charge

The fate of almost a million people brought to the country illegally as children, known as "Dreamers," is now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a case involving two former state officials convicted in New Jersey's "Bridgegate" scandal.

The decision does not impact Pennsylvania’s recently redistricted map, because the case was based on the state constitution.

The Pennsylvania chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is suing state police for, it says, illegally turning drivers over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

New Jersey authorities announced Thursday criminal charges against four more people for allegedly filing fraudulent federal Superstorm Sandy relief fund applications.

The court says the Trump administration's explanation for wanting to add the question was "more of a distraction" than an explanation.

In a 5-4 decision SCOTUS ruled that partisan redistricting is a political question and court can't judge if extreme gerrymandering violates the constitution.