Courts & Law

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.

The federal civil rights complaint alleges that Temple police stopped a high school student at gunpoint for doing nothing other than driving while black.

U-Haul wasn’t charged in connection with the 2014 deadly food truck explosion in North Philadelphia, but it is on the hook for more money.

Natural gas driller EQT was fined $330,000 by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for erosion violations at two natural gas sites in Allegheny County.

Ten other states have criminalized sexual extortion within the past two years.

Thomas is now the longest-serving member of a court that has recently gotten more conservative, putting him in a unique and potentially powerful position.

For months, President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen tried — but failed — to position himself as a whistleblower in the vein of Watergate hero John Dean.

A jury found that Smukler helped arrange and cover up a $90,000 payoff to one of then U.S. Rep. Bob Brady’s opponents in the 2012 congressional election.

John Kapoor, the 76-year-old former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy after 15 days of jury deliberations.

The Allentown Morning Call reports Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom's parent company settled the suit for an undisclosed amount.

Police have finished testing a backlog of 1,500 rape kits for DNA evidence. Authorities have discovered that more than 60 of those samples match DNA in the police database.

In a legal filing, the agencies said their searches were "a crucial tool for detecting evidence relating to terrorism and other national security matters."

The merit selection concept has been around for years but this version added a provision in which judges are picked from three legislatively-drawn judicial districts.

University's former leader, Graham Spanier, had been scheduled to begin serving two months in jail Wednesday in connection with the Jerry Sandusky scandal.