William Kilroy met Sandra Birchmore shortly after she took her mother off life support, and right before her beloved grandmother died. It was a difficult time for her, said Kilroy, who dated her for about a year and a half…
By Shaila Dewan, New York Times Service Sixteen years ago, Marci Webber killed her 4-year-old daughter, Maggie, in the midst of a psychotic episode, then cut her own wrists. When Webber’s eldest daughter, then 18, found them in the bathroom, Webber…
Editor’s note: This article includes descriptions of violence, suicide, and the sexual abuse of children. Testimony resumed for the defense in the trial of Matthew Farwell on Thursday morning, after the prosecution rested its case Wednesday. Farwell, a former Stoughton…
Critical testimony in the Matthew Farwell federal murder trial came to a screeching halt in Courtroom #10 when a phone suddenly kept ringing. “Turn that off. Now! That sound,” U.S. Chief District Judge Denise J. Casper scolded. The phone belonged…
A man was awarded $3 million after being wrongfully convicted for a 1994 murder and spending decades in prison because of police misconduct. James Lucien sued former Boston police detective John Brazil after serving 26 years in prison for a murder he did…
Federal judges in Massachusetts have granted bond to many of people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in southeastern Massachusetts during a three-day sweep in September, according to attorneys and court records. ICE targeted the southeast corner of the…
LOWELL — A New Hampshire fugitive considered “armed and dangerous” whose disappearance prompted a manhunt and temporary shelter-in-place order in Salem, New Hampshire, was captured in Lowell on Wednesday. Daquhan Cromer, 29, of Lawrence, had been on the run for months after…
SALEM, Mass. — An Ohio man is facing charges after police say he pulled out a stun gun during a dispute near the Bewitched statue in downtown Salem. According to police, on Tuesday night around 8:41, officers spotted two groups involved in…
LYNN, MASS. (WHDH) - A 26-year-old man appeared in court Tuesday in connection with the kidnapping of a six-year-old child in Lynn Monday evening, The Essex County District Attorney’s Office said. Marvin Kentrez Pryien, of Lynn, was arraigned in Lynn District…
William Farwell took the stand, and prosecutors asked if he could identify the defendant. The tall man leaned forward so the microphone at the witness stand could pick him up, he looked at the defendant just a few yards away…
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