Courts & Law

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.

The PPD agrees that anti-racist training could help officers de-escalate conflicts but can’t commit to providing that training.

The Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association and other gun advocates took fault with the stipulations and filed a lawsuit.

Pennsylvania leaders are teaming up in an effort to reduce the number of people with mental illness in county jails across the commonweal ...

A New Jersey couple faced a judge Friday to learn their fate after admitting to stealing from more than 20 Sandy victims.

"We are confident that the association between race and the death penalty is not attributed to random chance," the justices wrote in a majority opinion.

The trial is expected to begin Oct. 22 and continue for about a month.

Former Philadelphia police officer Ryan Pownall, the first cop to be charged with murder in nearly two decades,  was released Thursday a ...

Inmate No. NN7687 was not slapped with a chicken patty during a food fight.