Courts & Law

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.

Gun rights groups sued Tuesday to block Pittsburgh from enforcing firearms legislation passed after a mass shooting at a synagogue.

Bill’s Deli Market has been cited repeatedly for health and other violations. But Sunday’s violence led police to shut down the corner store temporarily.

Those arrested range in age from 19 to 56 and included 41 nationals of Mexico, 24 from Guatemala, 16 from Ecuador and 14 from Honduras.

A U.S. judge decided Monday to block the Trump administration's policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico as they wait for an immigration court to hear their cases.

The bill would place sanctions on Chinese drug manufacturers that knowingly supply fentanyl to traffickers.