Courts & Law

The charges are against members of the Rise Above Movement.

Joel Davis thought he was taking a dose of heroin inside his Newark home on Feb. 15, 2017. What he didn’t know was that the drug had be ...

More than one in ten of the 1,300 students enrolled at the 185-year-old Quaker institution have student visas.

Philadelphia has been awarded an additional $4 Million by the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge with the goal of decr ...

A Philadelphia woman called an Uber car one fall afternoon, and the trip quickly took an ugly turn.

A second member of the MOVE 9 has been released from prison on parole.

Pawlowski was denied bail. After sentencing, he was handcuffed and taken from the courtroom.

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor says she has been diagnosed with "the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer's disease," in an open letter.

Men standing trial in connection with the deadly Delaware prison riot in February 2017 contend the court system is stacked against them b ...

A total of only three ICE detainees remain across the five prisons that once held hundreds of immigrants.

Saudi Arabian officials confirmed the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who had been missing for 18 days, in a statement issued Saturday morning local time.

The death of a Penn State student after a night of drinking in a fraternity house is bringing a new anti-hazing law to Pennsylvania.

The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation of child sexual abuse inside the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania.

Joey Merlino, a former Philadelphia mob boss, was sentenced Wednesday in Manhattan to two years in federal prison for operating an illega ...

The U.S. government has quietly reached a new agreement to keep open a 2,400-bed detention facility used to detain immigrant mothers and children.