Courts & Law

Veteran civil rights lawyer Larry Krasner is promising drug treatment over incarceration and second chances for nonviolent offenders, among other reforms.

An investigation is ongoing.

City police statistics show nearly 1,100 cases of rape were reported in 2017, a 6 percent decline over the previous year.

Commonwealth Court Judge Kevin Brobson issued a 130-page report Friday to the state Supreme Court.

With their two young children, refugees Moustafa and Amal are making a new life for themselves far from Syria's civil war. Their first year in the U.S. hasn't been easy.

Philadelphia police officials cite issues associated with opioid abuse as part of the reason the murder rate is climbing.

Cops stopped a driver whose car was wanted in connection with an unsolved murder. But the driver wasn't the murder suspect and was unarmed when a plainclothes cop shot him.

Defense attorneys will no longer be able to mount the so-called "gay panic defense" in Illinois, the second state after California to prohibit the tactic.

The Point Pleasant Beach council recently passed an ordinance to ban marijuana dispensaries because, Mayor Stephen Reid said, they would not be a good fit for his community.

Many people — especially critics — want to know how many criminal defendants who are released under the new rules skip court later or commit another crime while they're free.

The public can report consumer abuse by filing an online complaint or calling 1-800-242-5846.

Pioneered in Boston in the 1990s, focused deterrence identifies people — often gang members or those involved in the drug trade — most likely to commit violent crimes.

Police have arrested a North Cape May woman for allegedly stealing toys from a collection bin. 

The case could have major implications for the government's strategy for prosecuting more than 150 others charged for their actions that day.