Jacob Leland was jailed for sexually assaulting one of his students in 2012.

Reading police have charged a 24-year-old man with attempted homicide and conspiracy in the shooting of his one-time friend outside a city tavern last week.

Mayor Eddie Moran Moran pointed to public safety gains, faster city response and local development partnerships as signs of ...

WILLIAMSPORT — A Lycoming County man is facing life in prison without parole after being found guilty Thursday night of first-degree murder. A county court jury found Benjamin Villanueva III, 33, ...

Defense argues prosecutors failed to prove underlying "crime of violence" needed for federal murder through use of firearm ...

A Florida man was convicted of first-degree murder and related charges Thursday in the deadly shooting of a man at a Berks County truck stop two years ago.

Deng Majek has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 29 years for the murder of Rhiannon Whyte. Majek had ...

Police arrested the suspect after discovering three bodies at a Northampton Township, Bucks County home following a welfare ...

A cold case team set up to probe unsolved cases in the Erie region are using DNA funding from a federal grant on two Erie ...

READING, Pa. - A man has been convicted of aggravated assault, but not murder, in the death of a child in Reading. Authorities say Elijah Matias was watching a three-year-old child who died in January ...

A Lycoming County man has been found not guilty of murder in the death of a 3-year-old Reading boy while under the man’s care ...

As violent crime and gun violence rates have declined across the Commonwealth, law enforcement agencies are improving their homicide clearance rates — getting more violent offenders off the streets — ...