A former assistant state attorney general who at one time was the top drug prosecutor in Maine was sentenced today to a 16-year federal prison term in a child pornography…
In a highly unusual move, the chief federal district judge in Rhode Island has sent some two dozen cases to colleagues in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. She and another judge…
A Massachusetts lawyer who was earlier suspended from practice has been sentenced to a 12-year federal prison term for his role in a $10.6 million mortgage fraud.
A federal appeals court has upheld a law authorizing police officers in Narragansett, R.I., to post bright orange stickers on homes that have hosted unruly gatherings.
Real estate lawyer and former state lawmaker Christopher Maselli is current on mortgage payments for some $1.7 million in financing for four homes he started purchasing during the real estate…
A Boston University physics graduate student has announced that he will appeal a reduced $67,500 award for downloading copyrighted music, calling the amount “equally as insane” as the $675,000 jury…
A federal judge in Boston today struck down the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act, saying that the 1996 statute’s prohibition against same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
A Rhode Island lawmaker who has a private practice as a real estate attorney has been federally indicted on seven counts of bank fraud concerning $1.5 million in personal loans…
Updated: A 28-year-old computer mastermind who last year pleaded guilty in a case involving the theft of millions of credit and debit card numbers from retailers and a major credit…
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