Courts & Law

A judge has set sentencing for March 29.

Erie Bishop Lawrence Persico has been outspoken about the sexual abuse scandals that have stained the Catholic Church. Even he is taking a wait-and-see approach.

U.S. District Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro ruled that Vasquez will serve the illegal re-entry and sexual assault sentencings consecutively.

The truck driver who hit and killed Emily Fredricks, a 24-year-old pastry chef riding to work on a Spruce Street bike lane in 2017, could face prison time.

The controversy has raised the question of what takes precedent: the safety and security of prisons or the protection of attorney-client privilege?

Thousands of accusations of sexual abuse and harassment of migrant children in government-funded shelters were made over the past four years.

Only a fraction of drivers in crashes that kill pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists ever face serious criminal charges.

The aide to former Gov. Chris Christie was resentenced in federal court after a federal appeals court last year threw out two of the seven charges against him.

At an annual budget hearing in Harrisburg, Corrections Secretary John Wetzel reaffirmed the policy is staying put.

Police found a Pennsylvania woman and her teenage daughter in an apartment with the bodies of five relatives they had killed, including three children.

Paul Manafort's attorneys argued to a federal court on Monday that their client is not a hardened criminal and shouldn't be sentenced too harshly.

We discuss the Jeffrey Epstein and other recent cases of powerful people who, until now, have escaped justice for sex abuse crimes.

The jury convicted Cardinal George Pell of abusing two 13-year-old boys whom he had caught swigging sacramental wine in Melbourne's St. Patrick's Cathedral in late 1996

R&B singer R. Kelly's attorney entered a not guilty plea on behalf of his client Monday as the singer faces multiple charges of sexual abuse in Chicago.

Pennsylvania's Human Relations Act grants certain groups of people extra legal protection against discrimination. One group it misses? LGBTQ+ people.