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…
The defense attorney for Magician David Copperfield say that a Grand Jury leak in the celebrity’s rape investigation case has undermined the investigation and unfairly defamed his client’s reputation. A 21-year-old Washington State woman is claiming that the 51-year-old magician raped her over a 2-day-period at his 150-acre resort in…
A Massachusetts man was arrested in connection to yesterday’s deadly home invasion in Winchester that left one man dead and the other seriously injured in what is being called a “targeted” gun attack and robbery. Wally Jacques Simon, a 30-year-old Medford man, was arrested soon after in Boston. At his…
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…
Massachusetts Senator Richard Moore has resumed efforts to hold drivers that fall asleep at the wheel accountable for their actions. He recently re-submitted a bill that would make sleeping while driving a more serious criminal offense. Senator More first submitted “Rob’s Law” three years ago. The legislation followed the death…