Courts & Law

After learning one of their attorneys was working with a suspended license, the Defender Association of Philadelphia has tightened the rules.

A man accused of killing his girlfriend Friday in Newark was found in a New York City hospital after being hit by a train.

Abington police have withdrawn charges against a ministry student they accused of crashing a stolen Maserati, cursing at witnesses, and then fleeing the scene.

The capital city joins a small group of Pennsylvania municipalities that have tested or permanently integrated the equipment. ...

A lawyer for a man who sued a Pennsylvania county jail for posting his mug shot online says nearly 70,000 former inmates could have claim ...

Of the more than 930 people who died of an overdose in Philadelphia last year, a third had been through jail.

A federal judge in New Jersey refused to hit the pause button on the state’s criminal justice overhaul Thursday, saying that revert ...

Some antiquated regulations will come off the city books if an eight-bill package gets through Philadelphia City Council.   A ...

The mother of a man who police shot to death during a routine 2015 traffic stop in Mayfair has withdrawn her federal civil-righ ...

A cultlike figure whose spiritual and financial hold over a formerly Amish couple enabled him to have sexual relationships with six of th ...

An attorney from the Defender Association of Philadelphia has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the association, claiming his bosses ...

Standing on the turf of Upper Dublin High School’s football field, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro drew the connection b ...

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez may be grappling with a tough choice in the coming days: return to Washington, D.C., for a major vote or sit at th ...

Defense attorneys for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez will be allowed to present evidence of actions he took that are similar to those he faces at ...

A Delaware report shows low income residents have limited access to legal representation in civil cases in the state. On Monday, t ...