criminal law

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — A 15-year-old boy arrested byPhiladelphia Policethis weekend is a suspect in three shootings over the past three weeks, authoriti...

A couple of things unrelated to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine recently caught my eye, reminding me that while this conflict will event...

All charges against Bradford man Gregory Fenstermaker were bound to court at a preliminary hearing last week. Fenstermaker, 55, will face 50 counts of...

Chicago has more important things to worry about, and we have more important things to write about, than the well-connected “Empire” actor Jussie Smol...

A Cyclone woman is in McKean County Jail after her dog raided a stash of heroin and got sick. Crysta S. Kramer, 36, is charged with endangering the we...

Happy Sunshine Week! Wait. What? Last month, Punxsutawney Phil emerged and declared six more weeks of winter, so we’re not talking about the weather. ...

A criminal case charging a Bradford man with hundreds of counts relating to child porn was dismissed at a hearing in February, but refiled Wednesday b...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The Borough of Yeadon’s former police chief has filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit, saying the borough council fired him becaus...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to imprison journalists who dare to report truthfully about Russia’s merciless invasion of Ukraine. Hi...

Pennsylvania undoubtedly has forfeited hundreds of millions of dollars in state tax revenue by declining to join 18 other states that have legalized a...

The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office indicated it might seek removal of a judge expected to preside over a criminal case in which he has ties to...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A jury cleared an Amtrak engineer Friday of all charges stemming from a derailment that left eight people dead and hundreds injure...

On Dec. 12, 2021, Peter Bernardo Spencer, a Jamaican immigrant who lived in Pittsburgh, died under mysterious circumstances in Rockland Township, Vena...

Jury selection and trial for Capitol riot defendant Pauline Bauer has been set to begin July 5 in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Bauer, 5...

As expected, three Commonwealth Court judges recently overturned a sensible Philadelphia ordinance requiring people in that gun-violence-plagued city ...

A Bradford man has been charged in two cases with assaulting a woman, allegedly stabbing her through the foot as well as hitting and kicking her. Timo...

Drug charges bound to court Tuesday SMETHPORT — Several drug-related charges against a Smethport woman were bound to McKean County Court at a hearing ...

Democrats elsewhere may be fleeing the defund the police movement, but it lives on in Seattle. Business owners told the City Council last week what th...

ST LOUIS, Mo. — Purina and the nonprofit RedRover have awarded five Purple Leash Project grants to help local domestic violence shelters make pet-frie...

REMEMBERING: In the early hours of the morning, 23 years ago Sunday, Kane Borough Patrolman Steve Jerman made the ultimate sacrifice as he laid down h...