Courts & Law

Authorities say a man fatally beat his female roommate in the motel room they shared in a New Jersey shore community. Ocean County ...

Rick Gates, the business partner of Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is expected to plead guilty to the charges brought against the two men this week.

The agency took the requisite formal step of publishing the rules on Thursday, opening the door for lawsuits from a number of state attorneys general and advocacy groups.

Manafort and Gates already faced money laundering and other charges in federal court in Washington, D.C. They have pleaded not guilty.

A prominent Florida eye doctor once accused of bribing Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey received a 17-year sentence Thursday for stealing $73 million from Medicare.

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The policy shift is expected to affect defendants in thousands of cases, easing systemic bias against the poor and people of color.

Now serving his fourth term, Pawlowski is charged with 54 counts of corruption, including bribery, conspiracy, fraud, extortion, and lying to the FBI. He's pleaded not guilty.

Attorney claims his client has a constitutional right to be offered money bail instead of home detention.

The motion to debate the bill, introduced by a Democrat, required a two-thirds vote and failed. Thirty-six lawmakers supported it, while 71 voted no.

The county is the latest local government in the Philadelphia area to sue drug makers for flooding the market with legal, but highly addictive painkillers in recent years.

The 2rd district now appears to have nearly 10 percent fewer black voters than the corresponding district did in the previous map.

John Green will be taking the stand to testify in his defense. Also planning to testify is his successor who has been granted immunity in the case.