Courts & Law

A coalition of environmental advocacy organizations has asked a federal judge to block the commencement of seismic airgun blasting.

The number of inmates in Pennsylvania has hit the lowest point in a decade, but prison officials say the time isn’t right to close a prison.

Netanyahu will still have a chance to hold off any indictment during a court hearing. And in the meantime, he remains in office and seeks reelection in April.

Numbers from the state Department of Corrections provide context for the breadth of the problem across Pennsylvania. Figures for the most recent year were released in February

The Real Justice PAC, which is now allied with Shaun King, paid for three embedded staffers for Larry Krasner’s campaign for Philadelphia District Attorney.

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.