Courts & Law

DA Larry Krasner and other U.S. prosecutors hope to learn more about the decriminalization of illicit substances in favor of a public health approach.

Three years after Delaware’s Supreme Court ruled capital punishment unconstitutional, lawmakers want to reinstate it. Several police associations support the measure.

Federal prosecutors have announced charges against two Philadelphia prison guards in an alleged beating of an inmate last fall.

New measures by U.S. regulators could help thwart some of the billions of robocalls received in the U.S.

The lawsuit alleges eight companies engaged in consumer and environmental fraud.

Hundreds of police officers in New Jersey are trained to recognize signs of driving under the influence of drugs. But some question whether their assessments are scientific.

The judge who presided over Bill Cosby's criminal case said he let five other accusers testify at the sex-assault trial because their accounts had "chilling similarities."

Pennsylvania's state attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the company that makes OxyContin of fueling the opioid epidemic.

The Allegheny County Health Department announced Monday that it’s fined US Steel more than $300,000 for air pollution violations at the Clairton Coke Works.

A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that consumers can pursue an antitrust lawsuit that claims Apple has unfairly monopolized the market for the sale of iPhone apps.

The new law lifts the existing two-year statute of limitations and creates a two-year window for victims of past abuse to file new claims.

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.