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Gov. Chris Christie has pardoned a Greenwood Lake, New York, woman who was convicted of two felonies in New Jersey. Gail Naples gr ...

Every state in the U.S. was required to submit a proposal to the federal government by last week on how it will comply with the new feder ...

A lawyer for a man who sued a Pennsylvania county jail for posting his mug shot online says nearly 70,000 former inmates could have claim ...

A federal judge in New Jersey refused to hit the pause button on the state’s criminal justice overhaul Thursday, saying that revert ...

Renewable energy got a boost on Thursday when PECO donated $100,000 for a solar-job training program in Philadelphia, and a state lawmake ...

Some antiquated regulations will come off the city books if an eight-bill package gets through Philadelphia City Council.   A ...

An attorney from the Defender Association of Philadelphia has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the association, claiming his bosses ...

Defense attorneys for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez will be allowed to present evidence of actions he took that are similar to those he faces at ...

If all went according to plan, Raines and fellow anti-war activists would pull off a burglary that would go down in history as exposing J ...

A Delaware report shows low income residents have limited access to legal representation in civil cases in the state. On Monday, t ...

A judge has scheduled a new date for Bill Cosby’s retrial on charges he drugged and molested a woman more than a decade ago. ...

Federal prosecutors are seeking to postpone the trial of a former Dover Air Force Base airman charged with sexually abusing a teenage run ...

The county caseworkers who investigate child abuse in Pennsylvania are underpaid, inadequately trained, plagued by high turnover and face ...

The man who federal authorities say agreed to drop his 2012 Democratic primary challenge of U.S. Rep. Bob Brady in return for $90,000 in ...

A judge has dismissed criminal charges against the engineer in an Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia that killed eight people. The ...