Larry Krasner

Walter Ogrod was convicted of killing 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn in 1988. But the evidence showed there was no way he could’ve done it.

A man accused of shooting six Philadelphia police officers during a standoff that lasted more than seven hours has surrendered to police.

The next police commissioner of Philadelphia will be Portland, Oregon, Police Chief Danielle Outlaw. Outlaw, 44, has served as the top-ranking police official for the West Coast city for a little over two years, since October 2017. She was the first black woman to hold the position, according to her biography on the Portland city website. She will also be...

The man suspected of shooting six Philadelphia police officers during an hourslong standoff in a residential neighborhood of the city has an extensive criminal history dating back almost two decades and including illegal gun possession and assault.

Willie Veasy, behind bars for 27 years for a 1992 murder in North Philadelphia, has been ordered free and his conviction vacated.

During the 22 years he spent in prison after being convicted of killing a Boston police detective, Sean Ellis believed there was something suspicious about the officers who led the murder investigation. He just couldn’t prove it. It would take years of digging and scores of public information requests from his attorneys to uncover evidence that several officers investigating the...

Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to possessing a firearm without a license in a move that spared him a retrial and additional prison time.
The plea ended a decadelong legal battle that garnered national attention and became a symbol for criminal justice reform.

Rapper Meek Mill pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge Tuesday in a deal that resolves a 2007 arrest that has kept him on probation or in prison for most of his adult life. The negotiated plea comes after an appeals court threw out his conviction last month over doubts about the arresting officer’s credibility. The 32-year-old rapper, born Robert...

The man suspected of shooting six Philadelphia police officers during an hourslong standoff in a residential neighborhood of the city has an extensive criminal history dating back almost two decades and including illegal gun possession and assault.

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.

The key witness against John Miller confessed multiple times to being the real shooter and even sent a letter to Miller’s mother apologizing for lying on the stand.

Lawyers for Meek Mill asked an appeals court Tuesday to overturn a 2008 drug and gun conviction that has kept the rapper on probation for a decade and made him a celebrity crusader for criminal justice reform. Defense lawyers believe the city judge who has overseen his case and sent him to prison in 2017 over minor parole violation has...

Dozens of people flocked to a Center City Philadelphia Planned Parenthood office in response to a Pennsylvania lawmaker berating pro-life women and teen girls who were demonstrating and praying outside the clinic on video.

Gun-control legislation introduced in wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre is moving through the City Council, but Second Amendment advocates are promising a swift legal challenge if the city’s latest effort to regulate firearms becomes law.

Philadelphia, the city with the highest opioid death rate of any large city in the United States, could soon become the location of the nation’s first supervised drug injection site.

A former Philadelphia Police Department detective pleaded not guilty Tuesday to allegations that he sexually assaulted male witnesses and suspects over more than a decade.

Marvin Roberts has pleaded guilty and has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney will invite Occupy ICE activists inside City Hall Friday to discuss the future of the City’s PARS program after announcing that he won’t renew the information-sharing program with federal immigration enforcement.

A Philadelphia judge has denied Meek Mill’s petition for a new trial in his decade-old drug and gun convictions despite support for the request by the district attorney’s office.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner reflects on his first 100 days in office and addresses critics who don’t believe he can keep the city safe.