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Robert Yost and his employee, Jacob Reese, face criminal charges related to poisoning migratory birds with a banned pesticide.
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New data shows that people isolated in Allegheny County Jail's "segregated housing unit" usually stay for 11 days.
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Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala appears to have walked back his policy forbidding plea deals for the clients of a lawyer who called his office racist.
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Legal experts say that in addition to threatening defendants' rights, Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. arguably violated his duty to represent county residents by telling local prosecutors to withhold plea offers from an attorney who called his office racist.
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Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. defended his decision to deny plea deals to clients of a lawyer who called his office systemically racist.
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Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala drew swift condemnation Wednesday in the wake of a report that he had ordered local prosecutors to deny plea deals to a Black criminal defense attorney who accused the DA’s office of systemic racism.
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Criminal justice and police accountability activists scored wins up and down the ballot in Tuesday’s election.
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Officials at the Allegheny County Jail have agreed to test all newly incarcerated people for COVID-19 upon arrival, according to court documents filed…
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Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Anthony Mariani was sued in federal court Tuesday for allegedly barring volunteer court observers from virtually…
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A federal grand jury has indicted the former administrator of a local nursing home, alleging that the administrator directed employees to over-report…