Courts & Law

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.

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.