Courts & Law

About 400 offenders originally sentenced to life without parole as juveniles have been released nationwide, and hundreds of others have been resentenced to shorter terms.

A judge on Friday sentenced former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke to less than seven years in prison for Laquan McDonald's 2014 death.

An Iranian-American woman arrested five days ago during a visit to the U.S. is testifying behind closed doors to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., a U.S. federal judge said.

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Thousands of women will join marches Saturday to support an array of social justice issues. In Atlantic City, they'll be honoring civil rights trailblazer Fannie Lou Hamer.

Six former officials of the former Wilmington Trust bank, including former CEO Robert Harra, are now headed to prison for financial crimes.

Jurors in Philadelphia have convicted a man in the murder of a 22-year-old Temple University student. The panel convicted 30-year- ...

A judge on Thursday acquitted three Chicago police officers of trying to cover up the 2014 police shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald to try to protect another officer.

Pennsylvania's Clean Slate Law allows for the sealing of most simple assault convictions and first-degree misdemeanors.

More than three-quarters of a million old municipal warrants for minor offenses have been dismissed by New Jersey's Supreme Court.

Investigators concluded that the true number of migrant children separated from their parents is unknown and could be much higher than the 2,700 reported.

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Officials say pharmaceutical companies should have to pay for treatment, law enforcement, and recovery efforts caused by the opioid epidemic.

Almost 43,000 immigration court hearings have been canceled as a result of the partial government shutdown.