Courts & Law

Bill Baroni started serving his 18-month sentence Tuesday in the Loretto Federal Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania.

The U.K. Metropolitan Police Service said Assange was arrested on a warrant from 2012 for failing to surrender to the court.

Former Penn State President Graham Spanier must report to jail by May 1.

Prosecutors say Hooked, Inc. circumvented the city’s towing system so it could pocket thousands by overbilling car insurance companies. It preyed on drivers who were confused.

 A jury was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of a Delaware man who admitted he broke a thumb off a $4.5 million Chinese terra cotta statue at a Philadelphia museum. 

The office of A.G. Gurbir Grewal released guidelines for handling bias crimes and calls on Facebook to monitor Ocean County group ‘inciting violence against Orthodox Jews.’

Emboldened by the new conservative majority on the Supreme Court, anti-abortion lawmakers and activists in numerous states are pushing near-total bans on the procedure.

Gun rights groups sued Tuesday to block Pittsburgh from enforcing firearms legislation passed after a mass shooting at a synagogue.

Bill’s Deli Market has been cited repeatedly for health and other violations. But Sunday’s violence led police to shut down the corner store temporarily.

Those arrested range in age from 19 to 56 and included 41 nationals of Mexico, 24 from Guatemala, 16 from Ecuador and 14 from Honduras.

A U.S. judge decided Monday to block the Trump administration's policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico as they wait for an immigration court to hear their cases.

The bill would place sanctions on Chinese drug manufacturers that knowingly supply fentanyl to traffickers.

Actress Felicity Huffman and a dozen other prominent parents have agreed to plead guilty in the sweeping college admissions cheating scam that has ensnared wealthy families.

Gun violence has dropped considerably in Wilmington, once dubbed “Murder Town USA” by Newsweek. But with six shot Sunday in one blaze of gunfire, many are concerned.

A former legislative aide who did prison time for drug and weapons offenses has taken over as secretary of the Pa. Board of Pardons to streamline the clemency process.