WRENTHAM, Mass. (AP) — A second Rhode Island man charged with assault and battery and disorderly conduct in connection with the death of a fan at a New England Patriots game pleaded not guilty Friday. In a brief court appearance, Justin Mitchell, 39 was arraigned in Wrentham District Court ...
BOSTON (AP) — A union representing striking teachers will be fined an additional $50,000 a day if the strike continues next week, a Massachusetts judge ruled Friday, according to The Boston Globe. Public schools in Newton have been closed for six days since the strike began last week. The ...
DENVER (AP) — An American founder of a Haitian orphanage forced four boys who lived in the institution to engage in sexual acts more than a decade ago, a prosecutor said Friday. Michael Geilenfeld, 71, is a "dangerous, manipulative and cunning child sexual predator" who for decades has ...
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — An historic Connecticut church's soaring steeple and roof collapsed on Thursday, leaving a gaping hole in the top of the building and the front reduced to a heap of rubble. No deaths or injuries were reported in the collapse at the First Congregational Church in ...
BOSTON (AP) — A Boston man pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of offering to pay a contract killer $8,000 to kill his estranged wife and her boyfriend, though he was actually dealing with an undercover federal agent. Authorities were tipped off by an informant in November 2022 that Mohammed ...
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts is planning to shutter MCI-Concord, the state's oldest prison for men, as it continues to see a drop in the prison population statewide. Closing the medium security facility, which opened in 1878, will save the state about $16 million a year according to a $58 ...
