FEDERAL COURT

A New Jersey man has admitted coordinating a neo-Nazi group’s plot to vandalize two Midwestern synagogues and cause other damage across the country

The former mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison on charges that he shook down businesses for bribes and campaign contributions

A federal judge in Philadelphia has joined others around the country in ordering the U.S. Postal Service to halt recent service cuts

A federal judge on Sunday postponed a Trump administration order that would have banned the popular video sharing app TikTok from U.S. smartphone app stores around midnight.

Philly treasurer Christian Dunbar was accused of stealing customer money while he worked at Wells Fargo

A federal appeals court says Florida cannot bar felons who served their time from registering to vote simply because they have failed to pay all fines and fees stemming from their cases

The family of rapper Kodak Black is planning to sue a federal Department of Justice agency after the treatment their son said he and other inmates received in a Florida federal prison. In a lengthy Instagram post, the Florida native alleged that a Bureau of Prisons supervisor played a role in him being laced, bruised and brutally beaten. He also…

The Boston Marathon bomber’s lawyers urged a federal court to overturn their client’s death sentence, arguing Thursday that intense media coverage and signs of juror bias led to an unfair trial. The three-judge panel didn’t render a decision after hearing from both sides for about an hour each.  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted of all 30 charges against him,...

A federal judge has ruled the U.S. government was correct when it determined a New Jersey-born woman who joined the Islamic State group was not an American citizen despite where she was born.

Mark D’Amico, the man accused in a GoFundMe scheme that bilked donors out of $400,000, appeared in federal court in Camden, New Jersey, Thursday to face new federal charges.

Supporters and critics of Safehouse, a planned supervised drug injection sites, are voicing their opinions about the proposed site as a hearing takes place in federal court in Philadelphia.

Prosecutors building the attempted murder case against a Philadelphia man who authorities say shot six city officers and held two other officers hostage in a mass shooting and standoff last week have a mountain of evidence to comb through.

Residents of Nicetown-Tioga are still coping in the aftermath of an hourslong standoff in which six Philadelphia police officers were shot. NBC10’s Denise Nakano spoke to families living in the that area who are still working through the trauma of that day.

President Donald Trump lost a major Twitter fight Tuesday when a federal appeals court said that his daily musings and pronouncements were overwhelmingly official in nature and that he violated the First Amendment whenever he blocked a critic to silence a viewpoint. The effect of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision is likely to reverberate throughout politics after...

President Donald Trump lost a major Twitter fight Tuesday when a federal appeals court said that his daily musings and pronouncements were overwhelmingly official in nature and that he violated the First Amendment whenever he blocked a critic to silence a viewpoint. The effect of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision is likely to reverberate throughout politics after...

A federal magistrate has ordered a 23-year-old man charged with lying to federal agents about being a missing child from Illinois continue to be held without bond. Authorities on Friday charged Brian Michael Rini of Medina, Ohio, a day after DNA testing ruled him out as being Timmothy Pitzen, who disappeared in 2011 at age 6. Magistrate Karen Litkovitz had...

The godmother of the child of a 23-year-old mother from Massachusetts whose body was found dead in the trunk of a vehicle last month says she thinks the suspect deserves the death penalty. Louis D. Coleman III, 32, of Providence, Rhode Island briefly appeared in federal court in Boston Monday to face charges in the kidnapping and death of 23-year-old...

IBEW Local 98 leader John Dougherty is set to appear in federal court Friday. ‘Johnny Doc’ has stayed out of the pubic eye since news of the indictment boke this week.

The wife of actor Geoffrey Rush cried as she told a Sydney court on Wednesday how he had wept and curled up in the fetal position following newspaper allegations he had behaved inappropriately toward a female co-star. Rush himself also admitted to the court he may have described the co-star, Eryn Jean Norvill, as “yummy,” but denied this was accompanied...

Both Hunter and his wife Margaret were indicted for misuse of campaign funds Tuesday afternoon. NBC 7’s Rory Devine reports from the courthouse.