Courts & Law

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.

Andrew and Elad Dvash-Banks have twin sons, born four minutes apart. The U.S. State Department has maintained that one is a U.S. citizen and one is not.

Kelly is being allowed to go free as he awaits trial after posting $100,000, or 10 percent of the bond.

Citing Manafort's lies to the FBI, several government agencies and his own lawyer, prosecutors said that "upon release from jail, Manafort presents a grave risk of recidivism.

When it comes to adoption, Americans might assume that each child is treated equally. But research shows that darker-skinned children are repeatedly discriminated against.

The woman who sued natural gas driller Range Resources over alleged air and water contamination at her Mt. Pleasant, Pa. home, testified before an investigative grand jury.

The DOC has confirmed it will stop photocopying inmates’ legal mail and go back to giving them original copies.