Courts & Law

The criminal retrial of Bill Cosby is slated to start Monday with a jury of seven men and five women.

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is under pressure to act after five inmates at Graterford Prison have committed suicide in the last three months.

The 12 people who will decide whether Bill Cosby should be convicted of sexual assault have been selected.

Authorities have investigated the death of Martin Luther King Jr. five times since his murder in April 1968.

Former Philadelphia sheriff avoids conviction on five federal corruption charges stemming from the award of contracts to businesses owned by a friend.

The nursing home in Chester County that burned last year, killing four residents, may not have had an operating sprinkler system, attorneys for victims say.

The census has not asked all U.S. households about citizenship since 1950.

The U.S. Supreme Court has again stepped into the bitter public turmoil over police shootings of civilians.

Bill Cosby’s legal defense team had two major wins on Tuesday when the judge in the case cleared the way for new evidence favorable to the 80-year-old comedian.

Four former executives are accused of hiding millions in bad loans on the bank's books from the Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the public.

More than half of the potential jurors in Bill Cosby's criminal retrial say they've already formed an opinion about whether he's guilty of sexual assault.

This time, there’s a new jury, new defense attorneys, and new era of accountability for sexual assault, guaranteeing the trial won’t just be a rerun of the first.

American Samoa, a U.S. territory since 1900, is a cluster of islands 2,600 miles southwest of Hawaii perpetually stuck in a legal loophole.

“Fiscal responsibility is a justice issue, and it is an urgent justice issue,” Larry Krasner said at a press conference recently.

A disbarred lawyer convicted of stealing about $1.5 million overall from five clients, including the trust fund of a young boy whose father died in a workplace accident, is no