Family Court

A Family Court supervisor was fired after a video surfaced showing him tearing down “Black Lives Matter” signs in South Philadelphia and telling a woman black lives didn’t matter to him.

A family court supervisor was fired after a video was posted showing him tearing down “Black Lives Matter” signs from a fence in South Philadelphia. NBC10’s Aaron Baskerville gets reactions from demonstrators who say they won’t let the man’s actions stop their mission.

The estranged wife of Dubai’s ruler applied for protective orders in a British court Tuesday using laws intended to safeguard victims of forced marriages and domestic abuse, while the sheikh’s lawyers requested that their two children be quickly returned to Dubai. Princess Haya, 45, asked for a forced marriage protection order and a non-molestation order during a British High Court...

Rhode Island’s governor has signed legislation to allow domestic violence protective orders to include pets.

Federal money for submarine manufacturing in Philadelphia, aircraft construction in Pittsburgh and other military construction projects in Pennsylvania could be at risk of being diverted by the Trump administration to help finance a U.S.-Mexico border wall, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey’s office said Thursday.

A Miami judge granted a Cuban father custody of a baby girl at the center of a dispute with U.S. relatives of the infant’s mother, who died during childbirth.

The family of a student who died after being attacked by classmates in Delaware is suing her attackers and the school district.

The family of Amy Joyner-Francis, a student who died after a fight in a Delaware school restroom, is suing the school district and the attackers.

Delaware’s Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the conviction of a 17-year-old girl in a school bathroom attack that left a 16-year-old classmate dead.

North Tonawanda, a city just north of Buffalo, is getting attention for a new law that lets authorities send parents of bullies to jail for up to 15 days and fine them up to $250. The City Council voted unanimously Oct. 3 to amend an existing law to add bullying, harassment and underage drinking to the existing curfew violations parents...

A 17-year-old Delaware girl convicted in a school bathroom attack that left a 16-year-old classmate dead was sentenced Monday to six months in a juvenile facility.

An independent review ordered by Delaware’s governor after a deadly inmate riot describes the state’s maximum-security prison as dangerously overcrowded, critically understaffed, and poorly run and managed. According to the preliminary report, prison workers consider communication to be the top problem at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center. The report released Friday portrays stressed-out correctional officers as not knowing what is...

A Delaware judge says he will rule Thursday on whether three teen-age girls are culpable in a school bathroom fight that left a 16-year-old girl dead.

The trial of three girls charged in a deadly school bathroom fight in Delaware began Monday with a prosecutor playing a cellphone video of the altercation.

A Delaware teenager was beaten to death in a high school bathroom nearly a year ago. A bench trial for the three suspects accused in the death of 16-year-old Amy Joyner-Francis began on Monday.

A New York judge has ordered a drug-addicted mother of four who has worked as a prostitute not to get pregnant again until she has gained custody of her infant son. Family Court Judge Patricia Gallaher wrote that the order is meant to improve the woman’s chances of being rehabilitated and reunited with the boy “without a newer baby making...

A 14-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to murder in connection to the brutal beating of a homeless man outside a Philadelphia gas station. Fifty-one-year-old Robert Barnes died in November, seven months after the assault left him in a coma.