Courts & Law

The court laid down guidelines for the lower courts to use in assessing the facts in similar cases.

Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade testified at a hearing last month that they had engaged in a romantic relationship.

District Judge Cannon said that though the Trump team had raised “various arguments warranting serious consideration,” a dismissal of charges was not merited.

Trump’s lawyers are seeking an 90-day delay or the dismissal of charges against Trump, alleging violations of what’s known as the discovery process.

The trauma-informed online database aims to lessen the added burden for sexual assault survivors to monitor their cases.

Asir Boone, 17, is wanted for attempted murder. He should be considered armed and dangerous, officials said.

The order leaves intact many other charges in the indictment. The judge wrote that prosecutors could seek a new indictment on the charges he dismissed.

The House votes Wednesday on a bill to force the China-based parent company ByteDance to either divest or be banned in U.S. app stores.

Police say they are still working to see if the bus stop shooting is connected to the killing of an Imhotep Charter High School student, 17-year-old Dayemen Taylor.

The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia is weighing whether to grant requests by gun rights advocates to bar Delaware laws they argue are unconstitutional.

Two people have been arrested and charged in last week’s mass shooting that hurt eight Northeast High School students at a SEPTA bus stop.

Menendez and his wife Nadine entered the pleas on Monday to a rewritten indictment containing new charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice.

Northeast High School students have returned to class after the mass shooting injured 8 students.

The number of incidents recorded is the highest the state has seen since record keeping began about 30 years ago.

The Pa. legislature created a special prosecutor to go after crimes committed in the transit system, and Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker promised to beef up police patrols.