Lower Superior Court Judge Kenneth Fishman has cleared Ki Yong O, an Andover, Massachusetts resident, of motor vehicle homicide charges because taking the prescription drug may have caused him to engage in sleep-driving when he struck and killed a 43-year-old Methuen men last year. In June 2006, O struck and…
Three men in Massachusetts who have been convicted of federal drug charges in connection to cocaine sales that they made in and around the Bromley-Health Housing Development have been sentenced to long prison terms and will be banned from the Boston area once they are released. Amos Carassquillo, 19, Nathan…
The second trial of Former Harvard grad student Alexander Pring-Wilson began with opening statements on Wednesday. Pring-Wilson, now 29, was convicted of manslaughter three years ago for the 2003 stabbing death of 18-year-old Michael Colono. A judge, however, ordered a retrial after the Massachusetts Judicial Supreme Court ruled in a…
Massachusetts police chiefs says the cities of Lowell and Lawrence are among the cities in the state that experienced a slight decrease in crime. Woburn and Arlington saw the biggest increase in total crimes committed from January to June 2007. The group, made up of Massachusetts police chiefs, says most…
The man charged with beating 78-year-old Robert J. Moore Sr. to death with a bat-like object reportedly has been suffering from mental health problems, says a missing report that his wife filed with police in Norwood last August. 41-year-old William B. Dunn was working as a contractor and installing a…
Ex-Prison Break Star Lane Garrison will serve 3 years and 4 months in a California prison in the DUI car accident death of a California teenager. Garrison, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence, a misdemeanor of providing alcohol to a minor, and one count…
Anna Tang, a 20-year-old Wellesley College student is being held without bail following her arraignment today at Massachusetts’s Cambridge District Court in the stabbing of her ex-boyfriend, a 19-year-old student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tang is charged with home invasion and armed assault with intent to murder. The…
The life sentence of a dying convicted killer has been vacated in Massachusetts because the judge that oversaw the case had closed the courtroom to the public during jury selection for the trial. US District Court Judge Nancy Gertner issued her decision after recently finding out that the Dwayne Owens’…
Jane Berghold, the 76-year-old breast cancer patient who crashed her car into a Brockton Hospital earlier this week, has been charged with motor vehicle homicide. Dr. Mark Vasa, the head of radiation therapy, and Susan Plante, a hospital worker, died in the crash. Two other people were injured. The Plymouth…
The FBI has issued its annual Uniform Crime Report. For the state of Massachusetts, the FBI reported that the following cities had the highest number of reported violent crimes: Boston: 7,533 violent crimes Worcester: 1,496 violent crimes Springfield: 2,260 violent crimes New Bedford: 1,143 violent crimes Not every Massachusetts city…