Courts & Law

Sessions on Friday launched a review of a little-known but widely used practice of immigration judges closing cases without decisions.

The mass firing is part of fulfilling campaign promises for a shake-up of the office, says a representative of District Attorney Larry Krasner.

According to sources close to the talks, the controversial proposal aimed at addressing the city’s deadly opioid crisis must first overcome resistance from some key players.

Report says Pennsylvania State Police standards for internal investigations of trooper-involved shootings are inconsistent and cause public distrust.

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.