PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- On Monday, the defense rested its case in the federal bribery trial of Philadelphia City Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson and his wife Dawn Chavous. Closing arguments are ...

News Getting Cases Moving Again: 4 Months in, Lawyers Praise Philadelphia's Relaunch of Civil Jury Trials Philadelphia courts scheduled 600 civil jury trial dates for 2021 and 10% of them have ...

PHILADELPHIA — The federal fraud trial of a Philadelphia City Council member and his wife in what prosecutors alleged was a “widespread corruption conspiracy” has ended in a mistrial ...

Philadelphia City Hall is reflected in the windows of the Office of the District Attorney. (Emma Lee/WHYY) ... The trial system is ramping up to cut down on the backlog. Last week 1,130 cases were ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Renewed calls for justice are echoing across the United States this Saturday. In Philadelphia, those calls come as a steady, dramatically elevated police presence monitors ...

The trial against Mark Dial, the former Philadelphia police officer who shot and killed Eddie Irizarry during a traffic stop in 2023, is expected to get underway, with jury selection starting ...

Officials say a union representing thousands of city workers in Philadelphia and the city have reached a deal to end a more than weeklong strike that halted residential curbside trash pickup and affec ...