Courts & Law

New Jersey’s top law enforcement officer is warning municipal prosecutors that they cannot unilaterally decriminalize marijuana possession in their city or town.

Commissioner Richard Ross says the language in the note left taped over a work station's trash can was 'deeply concerning.'

Once a rising star in Pennsylvania politics, McCord launched an unsuccessful bid for governor in 2014. But the FBI secretly recorded him trying to bully campaign donors.

Police will distribute decks of playing cards that have pictures and stories of unsolved murders in hopes that inmates will join their effort to solve the crimes.

A U.S. judge in Seattle blocked the Trump administration Monday from allowing a Texas company to post online plans for making untraceable 3D guns.

A "mass shooting" has taken place at a shopping center in downtown Jacksonville, Fla., according to the sheriff's office, resulting in "multiple fatalities."

Federal authorities’ shift away from separating immigrant families caught in the U.S. illegally now means that many parents and chi ...

Updated 5:46 p.m. — The Vatican’s retired ambassador to the United States accused senior Vatican o ...

A new community court in Wilmington will rely less on fines and prison time for low-level misdemeanors, as it focuses on helping defendants solve problems through treatment

Magisterial District Judge Carmine Prestia has dismissed all involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges in the February 2017 death of Timothy Piazza.

Allen Weisselberg is believed to be one of two Trump executives mentioned in the suit who reimbursed Cohen and covered up the payments by saying they were legal expenses.

A lacerating grand jury report on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Pa. is especially difficult reading for a church where five of the accused priests served as pastor

New Jersey authorities announced Thursday criminal charges against four more people for allegedly filing fraudulent federal Superstorm Sandy relief fund applications.

New Jersey’s Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has ordered all state and local police forces to share information on buyers and seller ...