Courts & Law

The retired statutes are prime examples of the 'blue laws' that once aimed to restrict activities on Sundays.

After an 18-month investigation into Medicaid fraud in Pa., a grand jury panel suggests that state lawmakers make changes to disrupt "systemic" malfeasance.

Bill Cosby says his insurance company is settling another accuser's lawsuit without his permission, a week before his scheduled deposition.

Katelyn McClure pleaded guilty in state Superior Court to second-degree theft by deception. She will serve four years in state prison and help repay the $400,000.

State Sen. Sharif Street is again trying to give the state parole board the option of releasing hundreds of inmates serving life without parole.

The political debate over whether to extradite Assange is already taking shape, with Britain’s opposition Labour Party urging the government not to hand him over to the U.S.

A homeless man was sentenced to five years' probation Friday after admitting last month that he conspired with a couple to scam the public out of $400,000 in donations.

International Criminal Court judges rejected a request by the court's prosecutor to open an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan.

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.