Courts & Law

Pennsylvania's Clean Slate Law allows for the sealing of most simple assault convictions and first-degree misdemeanors.

More than three-quarters of a million old municipal warrants for minor offenses have been dismissed by New Jersey's Supreme Court.

Investigators concluded that the true number of migrant children separated from their parents is unknown and could be much higher than the 2,700 reported.

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Officials say pharmaceutical companies should have to pay for treatment, law enforcement, and recovery efforts caused by the opioid epidemic.

Almost 43,000 immigration court hearings have been canceled as a result of the partial government shutdown.

A federal judge in New York has ruled against the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

Philadelphia's Defender Association says cops pull over more African-American drivers in the 14th Police District than white ones. Is racial profiling to blame?

The second in a series of trials for 18 inmates charged in a deadly Delaware prison riot began Monday.

The remarks are an acknowledgment that Barr's handling of Mueller's investigation will take center stage at Tuesday's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

A federal judge has blocked a Trump rule that would greatly expand the number of employers that could decline to offer contraceptive coverage on moral or religious grounds.

Seven decades after being accused of raping a white woman, four African-American men were posthumously pardoned on Friday by the state of Florida.

While odds for a recovery from the surgery she had are good, they go way up if the subsequent pathology report shows no cancer in the lymph nodes.

Although Philadelphia is about 43 percent black, police stop black drivers nearly 66 percent of the time, according to an analysis of vehicle stop figures.