Courts & Law

The Philadelphia Police Department and SEPTA have assigned extra officers to Center City and transportation hubs.

Delaware State Police identified the teenager who was fatally wounded in a shootout with police over the weekend as Juliun Pitcher of Smyrna. 

The federal anti-racketeering law has been used since the late 1970s to bring down mob bosses. Could it be used to prosecute Harvey Weinstein?

State authorities have charged 104 people for allegedly engaging in Sandy fraud since March 2014.

The federal trial over Pennsylvania’s congressional district map wrapped up in a Philadelphia courtroom ...

Thousands of residents — predominately black — are still being questioned and patted down without any legal basis.

A grand jury has indicted former Wilmington Fire Chief Anthony Goode on charges of racketeering, theft and unlawful use of a credit card.

In the capital Canberra, applause welled up from the House gallery after the chamber on Thursday followed Australia's Senate in approving the Marriage Amendment Bill of 2017.

Using homelessness as a barometer, a Villanova criminologist looked at the experiences of more than 10,000 state inmates for nearly a decade after they were released.

A group of bakers is challenging a one-of-a-kind New Jersey rule that bans the sale of homemade baked goods.

If SCOTUS decides to take society backward by siding with Masterpiece Cakeshop, we will immediately see a rush of attacks on existing LGBT protections.

A former Delaware correctional officer was sentenced to three years behind bars for smuggling drugs and cell phones into Vaughn Correctional Center.

The settlement follows a federal appeals court decision affirming that citizens have a First Amendment right to record on-duty police officers.