Courts & Law

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.

The Philly rapper is still on probation — and his lawyers couldn’t get the proper signoffs for travel.

The administration had said it hoped to identify the children within six months, but it opposed a specific deadline in case finding the children took longer than expected.

Abel Perez, 27, and Pablo Alvarez, 26, both arrived from Cuba at the U.S. southern border in December 2017. Both applied for asylum, and have been held ever since.