A jury has found polygamist and FLDS leader Warren Steen Jeffs guilty of two counts of being an accomplice to rape for his role in arranging a marriage between a then 14-year-old girl and her 19-year old first cousin. The verdict was announced in a Utah courtroom on Tuesday after…
There are now 11 formal criminal charges against former football hero O.J. Simpson in the alleged armed robbery crime at a hotel room in the Palace Station Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas last Thursday. 10 of the charges are for felony crimes and include kidnapping with use of a…
Former football star O.J. Simpson was arrested on Sunday. He was charged with six felonies related to an armed robbery at the Palace Station Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas. Simpson was charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, one count…
Warren Steed Jeffs, the leader and prophet of the country’s biggest polygamist sect, is about to stand trial for accomplice to rape. Jeffs’s accuser, a woman under police protection, was 14 years old when Jeffs forced her to take part in a “spiritual marriage” with her 19-year-old first cousin-despite her…
In Suffolk Superior Court, the second murder trial of John Gomes, 30, began with opening statements. Gomes is charged with the first-degree murder of Ildobrando Correia, a Dorchester youth soccer coach that was shot to death at the age of 45 in August 2002. Correia was in his car, having…
A 39-year-old Massachusetts man is accused of shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend and seriously injuring her two daughters at the home that the four of them shared in Norton. Robert McDermott’s body was found on Monday at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority railroad tracks in Walpole where he shot and…
Atlanta Falcons star quarterback Michael Vick has struck a deal with federal prosecutors that had him pleading guilty to dogfighting charges. On Monday, Vick pled guilty to felony charges of conspiring to sponsor a dog in an animal fighting venture and conspiring to travel in interstate commerce in aid of…
The Barnstable County grand jury is refusing to indict Ann Gryboski, a 51-year-old Cape Cod doctor, in the shooting death of her husband Patrick Lancaster. The jury cited evidence of domestic violence (both psychological and physical) after hearing testimony from 27 witnesses. Prosecutors have decided to drop the case. Gryboski…
A federal district judge has ordered the federal government to pay $101.8 million for the framing of four men for a 1965 gangland murder that they did not commit. Two of the men who were wrongfully convicted, Louis Greco and Henry Tameleo, died while in prison. The other two men,…
A Roxbury man was acquitted on Monday in the 1991 murders of his girlfriend and her friend. Reggie Knight was acquitted by a Suffolk Superior Court jury for the stabbing deaths of Michelle Paul, 24, and Henry Cowart, 50. The murders took place outside a housing development in Mission Hill…