Courts & Law

Data shows fewer than 50 people were released in the last 14 years under the current compassionate release law.

Bethel is currently head of security for the school district and formerly served as the city's deputy police commissioner.

It's a decision that voting rights advocates say could further erode protections under the landmark 1965 law.

The decision by District Judge Sarah B. Wallace is the third ruling in a little over a week against lawsuits seeking to knock Trump off the ballot.

The testimony about Justice Kevin Dougherty came during the federal embezzlement trial of his brother John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty.

The goal of the effort is to streamline the reporting of nuisance complaints in Philadelphia.

We'll talk about how President Lincoln succeeded in a very divided America, and how it's relevant today. Plus, new formal ethics for the Supreme Court...does it go far enough?

Philadelphia police have said Gibson will also be formally charged for killing four other people there in 2021, including his mother.

City Council members hosted a hearing to talk about problems in Philly's 911 system including a 50-plus dispatcher deficit and not enough police to handle calls.

Prohibiting the use of the thin blue line flag restricts the free speech of public employees under the First Amendment, U.S. District Judge Karen Marston decided.

Cavalcante was charged Monday with felony counts of burglary, criminal trespass, theft, and possession of a firearm as well as a number of misdemeanor charges.

Defense attorneys presented no evidence of their own and did not call any witnesses.

Until her retirement in 2019, Barry was a senior judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a level below the Supreme Court.

The code leaves compliance to the justices themselves and does not create any other means of enforcement.

Trump Jr. spent more than an hour Monday testifying almost as a character witness for Donald Trump's company, waxing exuberantly about the former president.