Courts & Law

Pennsylvania's state prison system is tightening security and revamping procedures after 18 staff members were treated at hospitals for exposure to a yet-unidentified substanc

Martinez has been detained in York since his January arrest in Philadelphia as he was interviewing for a green card with his husband, U.S. citizen Paul Frame.

A lawsuit has been filed against the City of Wilmington after a teacher and her young Muslim students were asked to leave a public pool b ...

A Philadelphia woman was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years in federal prison.

A federal judge said Tuesday the issue should be decided by the president or Congress.

The remaining two men sought in connection with the ambush shooting of two New Jersey police detectives earlier this month have been arrested.

The court said Tuesday Mill's attorneys must go through the regular process of appealing Judge Genece Brinkley's decision, despite their argument she'd been biased.

In a split-screen whiplash, a regular Tuesday turned into a blockbuster with two top people close to President Trump now facing prison.

The jury says it's reached a verdict on eight counts but is undecided on the remaining 10.

Inmates at prisons across the U.S. are expected to stage a two-week strike beginning Tuesday to demand better living conditions and prison reform.

Michael Cohen will plead guilty to charges including campaign finance fraud, bank fraud and tax evasion.

Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine held a two-hour meeting with Kavanaugh in her office that she called "very informative."

Pennsylvania DHS already declined to renew the center's federal license, but a federal judge ordered it reinstated.

Updated: 3:59 p.m. Lehigh County prosecutors have charged a catholic priest from the Allentown Diocese with assa ...

The attorney general's office has been scrambling to keep up, pulling in specially trained investigators from other departments to handle the deluge.