Feeds
The in-vitro treatments. The suburban house. The lavish trips and dinners out.
An indicted Catholic church official is showing signs he won't take the fall alone for the priest abuse scandal in Philadelphia, with his lawyer saying Wednesday that a successor threw him "under the bus."
Joe Paterno would no doubt have made a dramatic courtroom witness. But legal experts said his death will have little or no effect on the criminal or civil cases to come out of the Penn State child sex-abuse scandal.
A federal judicial panel in Miami is considering whether to consolidate lawsuits filed around the country by more than 300 former NFL players seeking damages for concussions they suffered.
A federal judge has found that a Philadelphia-area woman stole more than $1 million before she called in a hoax carjacking and fled to Disney World with her child.
The National Football League hopes to consolidate in Philadelphia a string of lawsuits filed across the country by former players who say they've suffered concussion-related brain injuries.
A few years after leaving Franklin and Marshall College's leafy campus in Lancaster, alumna Kristen Stephen and Morgan Marks reconnected last month at an apartment on a gritty North Philadelphia street.
A suburban Philadelphia mother should expect significant prison time for swindling her boss and a relative of as much as $1 million before staging a hoax kidnapping and taking her 9-year-old daughter to Disney World, a federal judge said Thursday.
Prosecutors said Thursday that they have refiled charges dismissed by a judge this week against a suspect in the case of mentally disabled adults found locked in a basement as part of what authorities say was a Social Security fraud scheme.
As he defends a sports figure charged with sexually abusing 10 young boys, and manages a case that led to the firing of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, defense lawyer Joseph Amendola has defied conventional wisdom and come out swinging.
A retired Roman Catholic cardinal with dementia no longer recognizes his longtime aide, and his memory is so poor that his testimony should be excluded from the underling's clergy-abuse trial, defense lawyers said Thursday.
A woman who was struck by a school bus when she was in high school and lost her left leg was awarded $14 million by a Pennsylvania jury on Monday, although the award is likely to be reduced under state law.
A retired Roman Catholic cardinal who suffers from cancer and dementia testified behind closed doors for about three hours Monday as lawyers prepare for a groundbreaking priest abuse trial.
The pursuit of profits blinded executives of a medical devices company to the "the sanctity of human life," a federal judge said Monday in sentencing them to prison for unapproved testing of bone cement that left three people dead.
Jerry Sandusky's brief call to a TV sportscaster may have done more to raise concern over child-sex crimes than three decades of church-abuse cases.
A woman initially hired to clean instruments at a Philadelphia abortion clinic has pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree murder in the deaths of a newborn baby and a woman who died after an anesthesia overdose.
In the latest court battle over the steamy 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that CBS should not be fined $550,000 for Janet Jackson's infamous "wardrobe malfunction."
A former Pennsylvania senator convicted of defrauding the state Senate and two nonprofits of more than $2 million has written what prosecutors call "an explosive trove" of prison emails suggesting he will seek revenge, become a lobbyist and resume a lavish lifestyle.
Prosecutors seeking to convict four Roman Catholic priests and a teacher in a pedophilia case want to use evidence of other sexual assault complaints and priest transfers in the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
Another defendant is expected to plead guilty to third-degree murder Thursday for his work at a shuttered Philadelphia abortion clinic where seven babies were allegedly born alive, then killed with scissors, and a patient died from an overdose of painkillers.
The absentee father of a disabled Philadelphia teenager who starved to death in a squalid apartment was sentenced Thursday to 2 1/2 to five years in prison.
A high school honors student pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he helped the American terrorist dubbed "Jihad Jane" raise money and recruits for a Muslim holy war.
Derrick Cotterel was a farmworker who came to the United States from Jamaica, picking citrus in Florida and apples in West Virginia for 10 years, before a pay dispute with a landscaping employer led to his arrest last year on robbery charges.
Two Ukrainian brothers were convicted Wednesday of smuggling desperate villagers into the United States to work in bondage, working long hours at little or no pay cleaning retail stores and office buildings.
A large for-profit education company has asked a judge to throw out a Department of Justice lawsuit that claims it used improper sales tactics to lure unqualified students and the billions of dollars in financial aid they bring.
Log In | Register
