Courts & Law

A former police officer has been sentenced to prison for his role in stealing $187,000 in federal Superstorm Sandy relief funds to repair a vacation home on the Jersey Shore.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not taking part in today's oral arguments before the court.

Ramsey, who was 9 years old at the time, sued CBS in 2016 after the network aired a two-day documentary including the theory he'd slain his 6-year-old sister.

Tom Hogan says the investigation will proceed even if there are talks with Sunoco.

A South Jersey couple and a homeless Philadelphia man fabricated the feel-good tale, prosecutors say, to trick the public into donating to a crowdfunding site.

Brennan says her allegations that she was sexually assaulted by a campaign staffer to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy were ignored. Then he was hired to work for the state.

Natural gas companies must pay millions of dollars in outstanding impact fees to the state, following a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling.

Jose "Ivan" Noe Nuñez Martinez and his husband have been savoring what can feel like borrowed time, after he was arrested in Philadelphia last year.

New Jersey’s attorney general says PennEast Pipeline Co. can’t legally sue the state for access to more than 40 parcels of protected land.

Recently disclosed accusations date back six or seven decades, with the oldest from the 1910s in Louisiana.

The federal government shutdown — caused in part by disagreements over immigration policy — is halting down immigration court hearings across Pennsylvania.

Attorney General Grubir Grewal says forcing local prosecutors off cases and sending in state officials would slow investigations and anger the public.

Thousands of state and local governments are demanding that companies like Purdue Pharma, Walmart and Rite-Aid compensate them for the costs of the opioid crisis.

The federal judge in Texas who ruled the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional earlier this month said that the law can remain in effect while under appeal.

The strategy to use former drug dealers, gang members and others with violent pasts to help broker peace in troubled neighborhoods is now set to expand in Philly.