Jerry Sandusky says he's innocent, seeks to move case to federal court
Lawyers for former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky are asking to cancel a hearing related to an accuser recanting his claims.
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Lawyers for former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky are asking to cancel a hearing related to an accuser recanting his claims.
New Jersey's acting attorney general won't ask the state Supreme Court to review the dismissal of racketeering charges against Democratic power broker George E. Norcross III and those charged alongside him.
Prosecutors have dropped the most serious assault charge against Penn State hockey star Gavin McKenna.
Former Phillies center fielder Lenny Dykstra faces charges after police say a state trooper found drugs and paraphernalia in his possession.
A man who scaled a security fence in the middle of the night and set fire to the Pennsylvania governor's mansion has pleaded guilty to attempted murder and other charges.
Documents say Malika Brittingham made a false report of an active shooter at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst due to feeling ostracized from her coworkers.
Actor Gary Busey has pleaded guilty to a sexual offense stemming from an appearance at a 2022 horror convention in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
A barrier described as an "anti-climb fence" to bolster security is in the works for the Pennsylvania governor's official residence.
Prosecutors say former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez should be imprisoned for 15 years after the Democrat became the first to be convicted of abusing a Senate committee leadership position and the first public official to be convicted of serving as a foreign agent.
Former Philadelphia Eagles running back Wendell Smallwood Jr. pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges.
A Pennsylvania woman has been convicted of killing her two young children, who were found hanging in the basement of their home five years ago.
Police say a man will face misdemeanor charges after he stormed into the press area at Donald Trump's rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, before being surrounded by authorities as the former president spoke at the campaign stop.
The superseding indictment against Trump is based on a narrower set of allegations after the Supreme Court ruled Trump had some immunity from prosecution.
The judge also threw out major felony charges against two former Louisville police officers accused of falsifying a warrant.
A man faces federal charges that he voted in both Florida and in Pennsylvania in the 2020 presidential election and twice in Pennsylvania during the November 2022 election.
Justin Mohn, the man accused of beheading his father in their Bucks County home earlier this year and posting a video of the severed head online, is competent to stand trial, Judge Stephen Corr ruled.
A lawyer for New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez said prosecutors showed jurors "zero evidence of him saying or suggesting that he was doing something for a bribe."
A lawyer for New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez sought to pin the blame on his wife, Nadine Menendez.
The case against former President Donald Trump stems from a "hush money" payment of $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
30-year-old Dempsey Walters faces prison time after pleading guilty to assaulting two teenagers over a doorbell prank Friday.
Delaware State Police Corporal Dempsey Walters has been indicted by a grand jury after being accused of beating a teen who tried to ding dong ditch.
Michael Burham escaped from Warren County jail in northwestern Pennsylvania last year and was on the run for more than a week before a pet dog led to his recapture.
Donald Trump's lawyers are telling a federal appeals court that he was acting within his role as president when he pressed claims about "alleged fraud and irregularity" in the 2020 election.
Rite Aid allegedly used its surveillance system to incorrectly identify potential shoplifters, especially Black, Latino, Asian or female shoppers.
The dimes were picked up from the U.S. Mint Philadelphia and were bound for Miami when the driver pulled into a parking lot to sleep on April 13.
