Courts & Law

The tumult continues at the sport's governing body as the sentencing hearing continues for former team doctor Larry Nassar, who has admitted to the sexual assault of minors.

The defense of Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski in his bribery trial started in dramatic fashion.

The justices, ruling just days after hearing oral arguments in the case, also state in their order that a new map will be in place by Feb. 19.

A Jersey Shore man is facing charges after authorities allege he sexually assaulted an Ocean County girl after meeting on Facebook. 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony Wzorek told jurors in Allentown that Pawlowski rigged city contracts in favor of law firms and businesses that gave him money for campaigns.

When Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg began her legal crusade, women were treated differently than men by law.

Almost a year after Trump tried to bar travelers from entering the US, the Supreme Court announced that will consider a legal challenge to the third version of that ban.

The government has told a federal judge in New Jersey it will seek a retrial of Sen. Bob Menendez, whose 11-week corruption trial ended in a hung jury in November.

The N.J. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that attorneys cannot ask about the immigration status of a defendant in order to attack his or her credibility.

A lawyer for imprisoned former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah on Thursday zeroed in on what he called the improper dismissal of a holdout juror.

Christopher David Hill, 45, was part of a team serving an arrest warrant on a woman when gunfire erupted, authorities said.

Prosecutors preparing for Bill Cosby's retrial on sexual assault charges want to call 19 other accusers to try to show a pattern of "prior bad acts" over five decades.

Lawyers for the disgraced lawmaker will go before the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals to argue Fattah should have been acquitted on several counts and given a new trial.

The ruling caps a six-year legal fight over whether ministers were the targets of discrimination.

A new study shows that Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know law does not burden public agencies. Still, advocates for the public's right to know say there is room for improvement.