Law

Since the law went into effect in December 2019, more than 1,000 suits have been filed in the state, with about two-thirds naming religious entities as defendants.

Pennsylvania’s school mask mandate was set to expire on Saturday. Now, the state Supreme Court said the mandate can stay in place while a lawsuit plays out.

The preliminary injunction applies to a coalition of suing states that includes Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota.

Opening arguments in the highly anticipated trial of Ghislaine Maxwell begin on Monday in a Manhattan federal court.

Keir Bradford-Grey, former chief of the Philadelphia Defenders Association, explains why the defendants’ claims of self-defense did not hold up in court.

Rev. Mark Kelly Tyler, co-director for the racial justice organization Power Live Free said the case was about much more than what happened to Ahmaud Arbery.

A jury has ordered 17 white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay $26 million in damages over violence that erupted during the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville.

Dumas will become the sole person of color on the 10-member court. That makes her just the second out of 31 judges on all three Pennsylvania appellate courts.

Mark D'Amico, his ex-girlfriend Katelyn McClure, and Johnny Bobbitt Jr. had made up a story that led to hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, prosecutors say.

Is there a difference? Millions of people participate in direct-sales companies, recruiting friends and families to sell products, with the ultimate promise of hope.

It is the largest year-over-year increase since 1991, according to the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled in Miller v. Alabama that mandatory sentencing of life without parole for juvenile offenders was “cruel and unusual” punishment.

Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorneys have asked the judge to declare a mistrial, saying the defense received an inferior copy of a key video from prosecutors.

The verdict comes more than 6 years after the FBI began wiretapping phones belonging to Henon and Dougherty, and five years after the federal investigation exploded into view.

A jury found City Councilmember Bobby Henon and union boss John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty guilty on most counts in the federal corruption case against them.