Courts & Law

Kane was convicted in 2016 for leaking information about a grand jury investigation to a Philadelphia newspaper and lying about it.

A movement to minimize impacts from motor vehicles on properties in flooded areas continues to expand at the Jersey Shore.

Cesar Altieri Sayoc, 56, was arrested in late October and was scheduled to go on trial in July.

Krasner says this latest effort to change the criminal justice system will end what he calls “mass supervision” — the “evil twin” of mass incarceration.

N.J. authorities urged opioid users to ditch their drugs if they see certain packages after a major bust at a North Jersey facility producing heroin laced with fentanyl.

U.S. Border Patrol is releasing asylum-seeking migrants who were recently apprehended without detaining them because officials say detention facilities are full to capacity.

Tamara Lanier says "Papa Renty" is the patriarch of her family and that Harvard is using those photos without permission and profiting from photos taken by a racist professor.

Family members of a slain 14-year-old girl named Grace Packer said Thursday they remain haunted by her torture and excruciating death.

A witness in the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer said he saw the officer panicking, saying, "I don't know why I shot him."

Michael Cohen, meet the Triggerfish.

The answer raises further questions about the effect of politics on the criminal justice system and whether a tool designed to give hope is working.

The U.S. Supreme Court, ruled Tuesday that the government may detain, without a hearing, legal immigrants long after they have served the sentences for crimes they committed.

A referee who was heavily criticized for telling a N.J. high school wrestler to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit his match has taken a step toward filing a defamation lawsuit.

The state chapter of the ACLU is taking legal action over what it says is are unacceptably long wait times for mentally ill inmates in county prisons to get care.

The records show the inquiry into Cohen had been going on since July 2017 — far longer than previously known — and that a big part of its focus was Cohen's taxi businesses.