criminal law

Think about it this way: If Justice Samuel Alito gets his way and the Trumpist Supreme Court majority voids Roe v. Wade, many states will be forced to...

Singapore’s execution last month of a mentally disabled Malaysian man for drug smuggling sparked international protests and outrage. Executing a man w...

NATIONAL CORRECTIONS WEEK: That’s right, the first week of May is set aside each year to honor Corrections Officers and personnel, and the honorable j...

PHILADELPHIA — A fired Philadelphia police officer has been charged with murder in the shooting of a fleeing 12-year-old boy, who prosecutors said Mon...

SOMERSET (AP) — A suspended western Pennsylvania prosecutor has been ordered confined on house arrest as he awaits trial in separate sexual assault an...

NORRISTOWN (AP) — A former Pennsylvania attorney general who served jail time for leaking grand jury material and lying about it was taken into custod...

SOMERSET (AP) — A suspended western Pennsylvania prosecutor facing charges in a sexual assault case has now been charged in an unrelated assault almos...

DETROIT (TNS) — Patrick Lyoya should not be dead today. But he is because both he and the police officer who shot him made poor choices when they enco...

ERIE — Two Erie residents were convicted in separate cases in federal court on Tuesday. In one case, the charges stemmed from fraudulent tax filing as...

The superintendent of the Oswayo Valley School District in Potter County faces charges of driving under the influence of alcohol and attempting to elu...

Fourteen Pennsylvania counties are currently part of the Law Enforcement Treatment Initiative (LETI), a program launched by Attorney General Josh Shap...

An Eldred man is in McKean County Jail without bail after being on the run from the Bradford City Police for about 60 days for allegedly robbing the C...

COUDERSPORT — Coudersport based state police were called to 278 Ives Hollow Road in Galeton on April 1 for a report of theft. Cory Shifflett, 50, repo...

It didn’t take long for the tragic mass shooting in Sacramento, Calif., to become yet another flashpoint in the national debate over gun control. The ...

A few months ago, I ran into a recently retired judge, a former prosecutor and friendly acquaintance, at the grocery store. I asked him what he though...

CHESTER (TNS) — A 4-year-old girl was killed by her 2-year-old brother in an accidental shooting outside a Chester gas station Tuesday, police said. T...

On March 10, prosecutors allege, a 26-year-old woman named Lauren Pazienza, of Port Jefferson, New York, quickly shoved Barbara Maier Gustern, 87, to ...

At a time when Americans are increasingly opposed to the death penalty and states are increasingly ending the practice, some others are returning to f...

LEWIS RUN — During a routine traffic stop by Pennsylvania State Police, Lewis Run on Route 155 near Roosevelt Avenue in Liberty Township, March 22, Ja...

SMETHPORT — An Eldred man was convicted after a two-day jury trial in McKean County Court of charges relating to the assault of a woman in January of ...