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A man accused of firing a gun into the crowded bleachers of a New Jersey high school football game, killing a 10-year-old boy, will be held in jail until his trial.

A judge dashed the hopes of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky for a shorter prison term Friday, resentencing him to the same 30 to 60 years imposed against him in 2012 for sexually abusing children. Judge Maureen Skerda gave Sandusky what prosecutors and his own attorney described as effectively a life term during a hearing ordered this...

Actress and activist Jane Fonda spent a night in a local jail after her fourth arrest in as many weeks while participating in a climate change demonstration on Capitol Hill. The 81-year-old Oscar winner was among more than 40 people arrested Friday while sitting in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building. A spokesman for Fire Drill Fridays, Ira...

Jane Fonda was arrested for the second time this month on Friday.  Fonda was trying to bring attention to the “Green New Deal” and raise awareness about climate change.

A judge who once faced criminal charges for helping her then-boyfriend avoid arrest is now facing possible removal from the bench

Police arrested two men accused of shooting and killing a woman inside a parked SUV in Willingboro, New Jersey, last week.

A Georgia triplet accused of fatally stabbing one of his brothers says the stabbing was a mistake and he only meant to hug his brother. News outlets report 36-year-old Kenneth Jernigan made his first court appearance Thursday after telling police he accidentally killed his brother, Kevin Jernigan. Jernigan was charged last week with murder and possession of a knife during...

Frustrated by the Pennsylvania Legislature, four men are taking advantage of a shifting legal landscape to file suit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton over decades-old allegations of clergy sexual abuse.

Bill Cosby’s lawyers will fight to overturn his sexual assault conviction Monday as the 82-year-old comedian serves a three- to 10-year prison term in Pennsylvania.

An eastern Pennsylvania judge has ruled that state police troopers who said they smelled marijuana in a car weren’t allowed to search it once they were shown a passenger’s medical marijuana card.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said the fallout from a clergy sex abuse scandal that broke one year ago in the Keystone State is still happening. His office, he told NBC10 in an interview, gets many calls related to the case.

A decision on whether Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill will be retried in a drug and gun case has been delayed until later this month, prolonging the celebrity’s 12-year legal battle many of his supporters hoped would end Tuesday.

Rapper Meek Mill returned to a Philadelphia courtroom Tuesday morning. The Philadelphia native was granted a new trial by the Superior Court of Pennsylvania in July. While Philadelphia prosecutors can choose to retry the case or dismiss it, no decision was made Tuesday.

A man has been charged in the deaths of his au pair girlfriend and her employer at his suburban home in northern New Jersey.

The smell in Kearny is so bad it is actually making breathing difficult for some neighbors, and health officials have been forced to close a neighboring soccer field four times within the last 10 days

A New Jersey judge on Wednesday sided with Gov. Phil Murphy and tossed out a lawsuit brought by an influential political power broker that sought to block a task force investigating business tax credits.

The estate of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has settled a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the families of two men he was acquitted of killing. Court records show that a Superior Court judge Tuesday issued an order of dismissal of the suit brought by the families of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado.

New Jersey’s high court took action Wednesday against two judges who have faced criticism over their comments in cases involving sexual assault

A court will hear rapper Meek Mill’s plea to overturn a decade-old conviction. Meek Mill and his team have been pushing for criminal justice reform of probation and parole laws.