Courts & Law

The Justice Department charged Butina on Monday with conspiring to defraud the United States and acting as an unregistered foreign agent. She faces up to 15 years in prison.

The officials had been waiting to see whether federal prosecutors would bring criminal charges but decided to move forward.

A contractor convicted of scamming dozens of New Jersey homeowners out of nearly $2 million following Superstorm Sandy has been sentenced ...

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer secretly recorded Trump discussing a potential payment for a former Playboy model's account of having an affair with him.

The so called "refugee convention" was hammered out after World War II and originally applied only to refugees from that conflict.

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An annual summer inspection of games at New Jersey’s boardwalks has found that some are allegedly unfair to patrons. The sta ...

Footage of the 28-minute encounter with police shows a Vineland officer pointing what appears to be a semiautomatic rifle at Rashaun Washington and imploring him to relax.

More than 84,000 undocumented migrants are enrolled in electronic monitoring — usually either an ankle bracelet or a smartphone check-in that uses voice recognition.

Residents of Vineland, New Jersey are demanding answers from authorities after police shot and killed an unarmed black man over the weeke ...

New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland sued the federal government over the Republican-led tax overhaul Tuesday.

Four years after Eric Garner was put in a chokehold by a police officer and died, NYPD says it will pursue disciplinary actions against officers involved in the case.

A Shore woman banned from owning animals has been charged with neglecting eight dogs, authorities said. Laura J. Giacini, 53, of T ...

The government charges that she was acting as a foreign agent without registering.

Maria Butina was arrested Sunday on a charge of conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of the Russian government.