Drug penalties are increasing across the country, and Pennsylvania is no exception. Under current law, it is illegal to possess drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, opioids and ...
A Philadelphia jury will resume deliberations Monday in the trespass trial of 12 Occupy Philadelphia demonstrators charged in a 2011 foreclosure sit-in at a Wells Fargo Bank ...
A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge overturned the conviction Friday of a drug dealer arrested by members of a city narcotics unit, the first such reversal since six ...
Juvenile-justice reformers rejoiced last summer when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juveniles, calling them cruel and unusual ...
Pennsylvania state police have temporarily suspended the use of breath test machines in drunken driving cases because of a judge’s concern about accuracy. A judge in ...