criminal law

JAMES CITY — An Elk County man has been jailed on felony charges after he was allegedly found to be connected with a fatal drug overdose that occurred...

A Port Allegany man died Monday after being found unresponsive in his cell at State Correctional Institution at Huntington, where he was serving at le...

Pennsylvania’s Open Records Law is a crucial and crucially flawed instrument to inform citizens and hold governments accountable. It’s a vast improvem...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Two television events in the last 10 days — a raucous Donald Trump rally billed as a CNN town hall and a far more sedate interview ...

Ja Morant was suspended by the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday after he appeared to be holding a gun in another social media video that was streamed live ...

Pennsylvania’s 2018 Clean Slate law has helped over a million people get a fresh start by sealing their criminal records a decade after a low-level of...

Five candidates are vying for their party’s nomination for two vacancies on the Pennsylvania Superior Court. Republican candidates are Maria Battista ...

Con(gress)man George Santos spent much of the day yesterday in a federal building, but it wasn’t the Capitol where he casts votes and likes to make fl...

West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins has agreed to a three-game suspension, a $1 million salary reduction and sensitivity training for using a h...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Ex-Las Vegas Raiders player Henry Ruggs pleaded guilty Wednesday to driving his sports car drunk at speeds up to 156 mph on a city st...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Former Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza was not present when an alleged gang rape of a minor occurred at an October 2021 party in San...

CAGE KICKERS! In celebration of Correctional Professionals Week, we at The Era would like to join District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer in sa...

Oops: A massive new study proves the normalization of cannabis use is an ongoing social disaster. You’ve got to be under the influence — of toxic ideo...

PORT ALLEGANY — The weather could not have been any better for three state judicial Democratic candidates who made a stop at Eddie’s on Main in Port A...

NEW YORK — A Manhattan jury is slated to start deliberating E. Jean Carroll’s civil rape and defamation case against Donald Trump this week — more tha...

PITTSBURGH — One after another, more than 100 potential jurors sat front and center in an ornate courtroom on the eighth floor of the federal courthou...

More than 1,200 criminal counts of child pornography, and charges of rape, were bound to court Wednesday at a preliminary hearing for a Duke Center ma...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania is one step closer to expanding its Clean Slate law to allow for certain low-level felonies to be sealed from public v...

SMETHPORT — Should the cell phones seized at the Congress Street residence of murder suspect Frederick “Ricky” Camejo Jr., be entered into evidence — ...

Portville man jailed for alleged catalytic converter thefts SMETHPORT — A Portville, N.Y., man is in McKean County Jail for the alleged theft of catal...