Courts & Law

Sessions is rescinding an Obama-era policy that paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in states across the country.

One of the state’s most crime-ridden communities recorded a double-digit drop in murders in 2017.

A former Dover Air Force Base airman been sentenced to 30 months in prison for sexually abusing a teenage runaway.

The state of Delaware threaten to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for allegedly failing to protect its residents from poor air quality, unless it takes action.

Veteran civil rights lawyer Larry Krasner is promising drug treatment over incarceration and second chances for nonviolent offenders, among other reforms.

An investigation is ongoing.

He said recent events have "illuminated the depth of the problem of sexual harassment in the workplace."

City police statistics show nearly 1,100 cases of rape were reported in 2017, a 6 percent decline over the previous year.

Commonwealth Court Judge Kevin Brobson issued a 130-page report Friday to the state Supreme Court.

With their two young children, refugees Moustafa and Amal are making a new life for themselves far from Syria's civil war. Their first year in the U.S. hasn't been easy.

Philadelphia police officials cite issues associated with opioid abuse as part of the reason the murder rate is climbing.

Cops stopped a driver whose car was wanted in connection with an unsolved murder. But the driver wasn't the murder suspect and was unarmed when a plainclothes cop shot him.

Defense attorneys will no longer be able to mount the so-called "gay panic defense" in Illinois, the second state after California to prohibit the tactic.

The Point Pleasant Beach council recently passed an ordinance to ban marijuana dispensaries because, Mayor Stephen Reid said, they would not be a good fit for his community.

Many people — especially critics — want to know how many criminal defendants who are released under the new rules skip court later or commit another crime while they're free.