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SMETHPORT — McKean County Juvenile Probation Officer Honor Rounsville was recently named the Pennsylvania Juvenile Probation Officer of the Year. The ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — In late September, Judge James Ho of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, fired an unexpected (and arguably overdue) shot at c...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania’s rules on handling undated mail-in ballots is once again a matter before the court. The state and national Republican...

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 ...

HARRISBURG — The judge in a case brought by Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration against three counties that aren’t reporting mail-in ballots lacking handwr...

“O, what portents are these?” demands a deceptively observant character in “Henry IV.” Former President Donald Trump must be wondering much the same, ...

The left simply lost the intellectual and political fight over the direction of the Supreme Court but can’t bear to it admit it. Progressives tell the...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — It doesn’t seem like it now, with the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade reversal roiling the nation. But we may someday look back ...

NORRISTOWN — Pennsylvania’s former top law enforcement officer, who served jail time for leaking secret investigative files and lying about it, admitt...

There was something ridiculous about the half-a-dozen protestors in “Handmaid’s Tale” costumes showing up at Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s...

CHICAGO (TNS) — In one of the most dramatic moments of the Senate confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sen. Marsha Bl...

Maybe I’ve been fooled, but my inclination is to say confirm her. Confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as a Supreme Court justice because, during Senate hear...

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...

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. ...

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...

NEW YORK — A judge has rejected an effort by New York’s attorney general to put the National Rifle Association out of business, but will allow her law...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — After 40 witnesses took the stand over the course of more than three months, testimony in the landmark trial over how Pennsylvani...