criminal law

A Western Pennsylvania middle school teacher and youth baseball coach is now facing additional charges relating to the sexual assault of children, acc...

PORTVILLE, N.Y. — A 20-year-old Little Genesee man faces felony charges of vehicular homicide and assault and driving while intoxicated in the wake of...

For many decades, possessing even a small amount of marijuana could mean big legal trouble. Regardless of whether someone caught with a personal-use a...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The criminal case against the man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie involves so much potential evidence that prosecuto...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvanians with minor, nonviolent marijuana criminal convictions could be pardoned beginning Thursday in a period until the end of th...

Pennsylvania cannot keep a cache of weapons seized from the parents of a gunman who killed one state trooper and permanently disabled another eight ye...

A Bradford man known by the online moniker “Sold Out” has been jailed for 91 felony counts relating to a check-cashing scam at Northwest Bank in Bradf...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Matt Araiza, the “Punt God” who led San Diego State to a record-setting season before being drafted by the Buffalo Bills, and two of ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A former Army Ranger fromGlenshawwas found guilty Tuesday inWashington, D.C., of assaulting police during theJan. 6 riot. U.S. Dist...

DUI AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT CHARGES BOUND TO COURT FOR BRADFORD RESIDENT WARREN — William J. Brooks, 61, Bradford, was held for court during preliminar...

The Mercer County man accused of threatening to murder FBI agents on Gab last week emerged from his house with an assault weapon in his hands when the...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s soft approach to confronting criminal groups is not working. In fact, it seems to be backfiring. Last ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — A judge refused to grant bail Thursday to the man accused of trying to kill Salman Rushdie as the acclaimed author prepared to give a...

Those kids who were abused by the Luzerne County juvenile court system had some cash value, after all — just not as envisioned by criminal judges Mich...

Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than ...

Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than ...

Does Attorney General Merrick Garland know that he is investigating the man most likely to be the opponent of the president he serves? Does he realize...

3 PSP TRAFFIC STOPS LEAD TO CHARGES OF DRUG/PARAPHERNALIA POSSESSION LEWIS RUN — The Lewis Run based troopers of the Pennsylvania State Police conduct...

BERWICK (AP) — Pennsylvania state police say a man who was upset about an argument with his mother drove through a crowd at a fundraiser for victims o...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Advocates for victims of childhood sexual abuse are excoriating a licensed sex therapist with the Commonwealth who is advocating th...