Courts & Law

The city of Philadelphia has awarded $750,000 to a West Philadelphia man who claimed in a lawsuit he was forced by police to admit a doub ...

Pennsylvania and Philadelphia prosecutors have charged four people with interfering in a special city election in state House’s 197 ...

Dismissed move mogul Harvey Weinstein is going to Chancery Court in an effort to gain access to corporate email and other records.

The prosecutor who put Kevin Brinkley in prison apologizes to the former "juvenile lifer." Brinkley family says it will fight for exoneration.

Top Philadelphia officials told a federal judge Thursday that if U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions gets his way and withholds public sa ...

A new report on death penalty cases in Pennsylvania shows a strong tie between how a case proceeds through the justice system and who a defendant relies on for legal counsel.

Sen. Bob Menendez got a hand from colleagues on both sides of the political aisle in his corruption trial Thursday.

A white Philadelphia prisons official has sued the city for discrimination, saying city officials passed him over in favor of a less-experienced black woman.

New Castle County Police have arrested 11 members of the Exit 4/Mag Boys Gang after a four month investigation into heroin and marijuana sales in Edgemoor.

Two associates of U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, D-Philadelphia, have been charged after an investigation into a Brady opponent bowing out of the 2012 primary race.

Philadelphia's onetime top prosecutor accepted posh dinners and Caribbean getaways in return for favors. A federal judge has sentenced him to 5 years for corruption.

How a savvy purchase of a cloud storage company helped the company behind Taser snag big contract for Philly police body cameras.

Sessions said he would urge federal prosecutors to use whatever laws they can think of to “dismantle” the transnational criminal organization with an estimated 40,000 members.

The gunman accused of shooting five coworkers in Maryland, killing three of them, then shooting a sixth person in Wilmington will be tried in Delaware first.

A coalition of Philadelphia activists who want to end the city's longstanding cash bail system aren't waiting for the system to change.