Courts & Law

A prosecutor urged jurors Tuesday to focus on a white police officer's frame of mind when he shot and killed an unarmed black teenager near Pittsburgh last summer.

Former East Pittsburgh police officer Michael Rosfeld fatally shot Antwon Rose last summer, sparking local protests.

New Jersey's "ghost gun" law bans manufacturers from selling partially assembled guns that can be built into fully functional, untraceable firearms.

The commonwealth's Board of Pardons has voted unanimously to get rid of all application fees, starting March 18.

Bill Baroni, a convicted appointee of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has joined Bridget Kelly's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The state Attorney General’s Office says it will prosecute only three inmates, at two trials, in the death of a correctional officer.

The Hague-based court, the first global tribunal for war crimes, said it would continue to operate "undeterred" by the U.S. action.

The ACLU says the York County Prison’s plan for keeping out drugs is a “cheap copy” of a maneuver for which the state prison system was already sued.

Unofficial cooperation has granted immigration authorities access to databases and, in some cases, people are tipping them off when a person of interest is being released.

Andrew Weissmann, the architect of the case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, will study and teach at NYU and work on a variety of public service projects.

A woman in California who says Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder caused her to develop mesothelioma was awarded $29 million by a jury Wednesday.

Singer, 58, is at the center of one of biggest college admissions scandals on record, accused of conspiring with wealthy parents to pay bribes to get into prestigious schools.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson effectively added about 3 and a half more years in prison to the sentence Manafort received last week from a different judge in Virginia.

The most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse was sentenced in an Australian court to 6 years in prison for molesting two choirboys more than 20 years ago.

An estimated 155,000 or more sex assault evidence kits still await testing, and thousands of results have yet to be linked to suspects.