Policing

Former Philadelphia police officer Ryan Pownall, the first cop to be charged with murder in nearly two decades,  was released Thursday a ...

Police commissioner Richard Ross called the shooting "an all-out, absolute tragedy."

The encounter raised questions about police use of force and racial bias in law enforcement, because the driver of the car was black.

A bill that would end Pennsylvania's frequent use of mandatory life-without-parole sentences has hit a wall in the state Senate.

The Philadelphia Police Department is firing two city police officers for illegally detaining a man earlier this year and falsifying paperwork, the PPD announced Thursday.

A 47-year-old Claymont-area man has been charged for a series of sexual assaults and robberies involving female victims in suburban New Castle County.

Some parents of kids in city schools firmly in favor of the police presence.

Advocates argue that the new mail policy — aimed to keep drugs out of prisons — violates inmates' rights.

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.

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

Three of the poorest ZIP codes in the city are responsible for almost a third of the city’s homicides since January 2013.

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

State AG says it can help law enforcement get there before the next fatal overdose and help get drug users into treatment.

The officer is charged in the shooting death of 17-year-old Antwon Rose.