With two vacancies, the 3rd Circuit, a highly influential and powerful court, is evenly split between Democrat- and Republican-appointed judges.

Drop-in services in Philadelphia have been shut down, though overnight drop-in services at the Southside Community Center in Pittsburgh remain open — at least for now. A federal court in Rhode ...

PHILADELPHIA — "Walking past sculptor Louise Nevelson's Bicentennial Dawn is like strolling through the city of your dreams. It's sheer poetry," The Inquirer society columnist Ruth Seltzer wrote on ...

A federal appeals court in Philadelphia this week upheld a decision by District Judge Stephanie L. Haines, who ruled that a corrections officer at SCI Houtzdale was protected from an inmate lawsuit by ...