New rules will require more frequent visits to schools in areas that don't have their own police departments, and so they rely on state police for coverage.

Pennsylvania sentences more people to life in prison without the possibility of parole than any other state.

The grand jury report named 301 predator priests, but noted it had information on more than 400, and more than 1,000 victims in the state.

Life without parole applies automatically to first- and second-degree murder, and sometimes to third-degree murder.

The wide-ranging package known as the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 rolls up 70 bills that will be backed by about $5 billion in funding.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos called out the nation’s universities Monday in a talk about campus free speech and the First Amendment.

One of the first things on the agenda when lawmakers return to Harrisburg this month will be a bill that makes it easier for people who w ...

All books will now have to go through the Department of Corrections.

While scathing, last month’s grand jury report about clergy sex abuse in Pennsylvania was released with ...

Pennsylvania law currently requires victims to sue before they turn 30.

Lawmakers are also urged to provide a two-year window for past victims to file civil charges retroactively.

All 25 Pennsylvania state prisons are operating under a new normal after a 12-day lockdown.

In the latest court documents, about a dozen clergy members, whose names have been withheld from the grand jury report, claim their due process rights have been violated.

If you’re grocery shopping in Philadelphia over the next year you might run into a cherubic cartoon character named A.J.

The state put a moratorium on its reimbursement program for school construction in 2015.