Criminal Laws

In 2011, an appeals court chided a Northampton County judge for giving an HIV-positive child rapist from Bath a virtual life sentence for possessing child pornography, saying it was excessive and an abuse of discretion. But ordered to sentence Shaun...

PHILADELPHIA  — A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a...

PHILADELPHIA — Kermit Gosnell, the abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic, agreed Tuesday to give up his right to an appeal and now faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence. The...

(Reuters) — A Philadelphia doctor avoided the possbility of the death penalty for murdering babies during late-term abortions by agreeing not to appeal his convictions, and he was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison, the city prosecutor said....

Nearly seven years after she admitted that she plotted to have her boss killed in his Glen Burnie office to cover up thefts from his dental practice, Shontay Joyner Hickman had her life sentence reduced Thursday to 40 years in prison for testifying...

President Obama has much to discuss with Mexico's new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, when they meet in Mexico City this week. No issue, however, is more urgent than the search for peace, justice and dignity for and between our peoples. For seven years,...

After more than 15 years on the lam, former fugitive Giovanni Spiller was convicted late Tuesday of a 1996 slaying that left the victim's family shattered and exposed weaknesses in America's system for apprehending international fugitives. FBI agents...

Former Osceola County School Board Chairwoman Cindy Hartig won't face criminal charges for allegedly accessing a colleague's email. The State Attorney's Office said Tuesday that it had declined to take up the case, and it was closed last month....

A Waynesboro, Pa., man pleaded guilty Friday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court to three counts of first-degree murder in the 2012 shootings of his estranged wife, her boyfriend and the boyfriend’s mother, and was sentenced to three consecutive...

Re "Another kind of gun control," Opinion, May 5 David M. Kennedy's Op-Ed article saying that efforts to curtail gun violence should be focused on "hot" groups and areas, instead of on doomed legislation, was a refreshing moment of clarity in this...

 A former Aberdeen man has been indicted on two counts of murder in Chicago.  Daniel E. Neasom, 29, is next scheduled in court Monday for an arraignment, where he's expected to enter pleas. He's being held at the Cook County Jail in Illinois, and bail...

Two men and a boy from Elgin are accused of stabbing and beating three people during a brawl early Friday in the northwest suburb, police said. Adan Sandoval, 21, of the 400 block of South Edison Avenue, was charged with armed violence, a Class X...