Criminal Justice

Holmes was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing three female officers. The judge is handing off the case to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Crime in Pa. has been on the decline for two decades, and changing attitudes towards incarceration have dramatically lowered the state prison population.

The chamber narrowly passed a measure that would require judges to issue consecutive sentences for multiple crimes involving guns.

The out-of-state men say they have grounds to sue because the abuse occurred when the Boy Scouts of America was headquartered in New Jersey.

When men are released from prison in Wilmington, a mobile van will be waiting to get them the services they need, from an ID card to mental health treatment.

A North Carolina man has been charged with trying to bring an assault weapon, body armor and hollow-point bullets into a U.S. Coast Guard Training Center in New Jersey.

A jury found White not guilty of manslaughter, but convicted him of evidence tampering for tossing his knife onto a rooftop and trashing bloody clothing.

The brief filed Thursday with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court focuses on four key trial issues.

Prosecutors said they would drop a 1992 case over stolen jeans that had threatened to send David Sheppard back to prison after he served 25 years.

A PA Post review of county jails' commissaries finds that Muslim prisoners meet financial barriers to practicing their religion.

Ryan Pownall is accused of fatally shooting Jones after a routine traffic stop in North Philly in 2017. His trial, which was scheduled to start Monday, has been postponed.

Family and supporters of missing 5-year-old Dulce Alavez worry interest in the case is waning in the place most likely to yield clues: the girl’s hometown.

Incoming PPD Commissioner Danielle Outlaw made quite an impression at City Hall.

Dean Pagan has become a poster child for toxic conditions in Philly schools. But can his family sue the district for damages?

Lawyers for the suspect in the synagogue shooting that killed 11 people in Pittsburgh have challenged the potential death sentence as unconstitutional.