A veteran police chief of the Massachusetts town where an 8-year-old boy fatally shot himself while holding a machine gun at a weapons expo was indicted today along with three…
Massachusetts inmate Nick George Montos committed his first offense as a teenager and the last at the age of 78. The oldest prisoner in the state, he died Sunday at…
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has waived the usual requirement that all takers of the state bar examination must be graduates of an ABA-accredited law school for a licensed…
A Miami jury has convicted a retired FBI agent accused of cooperating with Boston’s Winter Hill Gang and providing information to gangsters that led to a South Florida murder in…
Experimental bone cancer treatment cured a 40-year-old Massachusetts woman, as an autopsy determined after she died of side effects from the treatment.
An apparently bogus blueblood who made international headlines this summer after he allegedly kidnapped his 7-year-old daughter is putting a high-profile criminal defense attorney in charge of a variety of…
When attorney Mark Peroff moved to the Manhattan office of Hiscock & Barclay, a 200-lawyer firm headquartered in upstate New York, he persuaded clients to follow him by offering a…
A homeless man who, along with another man, allegedly stole a $1 bill and a bag of empty cans from a 10-year-old Massachusetts girl has been sentenced to 9 months…
The family of a 38-year-old woman who was crushed to death in 2006 when a portion of the so-called “Big Dig” tunnel ceiling collapsed in Boston will get $28 million…
It isn’t just college students in the Boston area who are competing for free furniture in a thriving market for secondhand treasures, scouring Internet listings and keeping an eagle eye…
It’s hard to get good help anymore, not only in ordinary business ventures but in criminal enterprises, too. And, as a result of that generational change, attributed at least in…
A malpractice suit claims Washington, D.C.-based law firm Phillips & Cohen failed to pursue a whistle-blower case against a contractor for a Massachusetts highway project.
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