Courts & Law

Time is running out for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA recipients hoping to stay in the U.S. legally — at least for another two years.

A suburban Philadelphia company that trims trees around power lines throughout the United States will pay a record fine after pleading gu ...

The ongoing battle for control over TransPerfect continues in federal court.

Andre Martin has been in prison for 41 years since a jury convicted him of murdering a Philadelphia police officer with a bullet to the head.

Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, and Florida ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen each face about a dozen counts of federal bribery, conspiracy, and fraud charges.

After learning one of their attorneys was working with a suspended license, the Defender Association of Philadelphia has tightened the rules.

A man accused of killing his girlfriend Friday in Newark was found in a New York City hospital after being hit by a train.

Abington police have withdrawn charges against a ministry student they accused of crashing a stolen Maserati, cursing at witnesses, and then fleeing the scene.

The capital city joins a small group of Pennsylvania municipalities that have tested or permanently integrated the equipment. ...

A lawyer for a man who sued a Pennsylvania county jail for posting his mug shot online says nearly 70,000 former inmates could have claim ...

Of the more than 930 people who died of an overdose in Philadelphia last year, a third had been through jail.

A federal judge in New Jersey refused to hit the pause button on the state’s criminal justice overhaul Thursday, saying that revert ...

Some antiquated regulations will come off the city books if an eight-bill package gets through Philadelphia City Council.   A ...

The mother of a man who police shot to death during a routine 2015 traffic stop in Mayfair has withdrawn her federal civil-righ ...

A cultlike figure whose spiritual and financial hold over a formerly Amish couple enabled him to have sexual relationships with six of th ...