Courts & Law

Two current inmates are suing Philadelphia's Federal Detention Center to overturn a policy that blocks some of their loved ones from visiting them as they await trial.

State Sen. Joe Pennacchio, a Republican from Morris County, said 27 people in New Jersey have been exonerated since 1989 after an average of 10 years behind bars.

The first Monday in October, the start of the U.S. Supreme Court’s new term, prompts an almost annual question:  Why don’t ...

Commonwealth Court Judge Dan Pelligrini heard arguments Wednesday over whether to stay a lawsuit over the state’s congressional distric ...

As the Trump administration moves to end DACA, health care providers rally behind the roughly 20,000 recipients they say fill important needs in the medical industry.

A 24-year-old man arrested for shoplifting last month died while being held at the Dover Police Department.

"Enough fentanyl to kill half the population of Montgomery County" was confiscated during a drug bust at a Cheltenham shopping center, county officials said Tuesday.

A Pennsylvania man faces multiple drug charges after a Delaware police say they found more than 11,000 bags of heroin in his car during a traffic stop.

Mohammed Jabbateh came to the U.S. on a visitor's visa in 1998, shortly after the end of Liberia's first civil war.

Jury selection has begun for a trial to determine if four former Wilmington Trust executives are guilty of conspiracy and false statements.

A Delaware state senator who carried a loaded handgun into a Maryland airport has reached a deal with prosecutors allowing him to avoid a criminal conviction and prison time.

Delaware's time as the only state to offer sports betting could be winding down.

The former candidate whom prosecutors say U.S. Rep. Bob Brady paid to drop out of a 2012 primary challenge is scheduled to plead guilty in federal court Monday.

A Philly attorney said he got an ad sales pitch from the Philadelphia Inquirer suggesting he could get clients fleeing another law firm profiled in an earlier story.

Two Pennsylvania families have settled a lawsuit against a major natural gas producer, ending an almost decade-long fight over alleged water contamination in Dimock.