Sudbury man charged in slaying of parents may have video trial
A Sudbury man, accused of murdering his parents at a Virgin Islands resort in 2015, remains at Bridgewater State Hospital, his lawyer said Monday.The U.S. Virgin Islands do not have the facilities and...
View ArticleLegislature stalls on Framingham Town Meeting measure
FRAMINGHAM — A measure that would block Town Meeting from taking up articles that disparage municipal employees is temporarily on hold after the Legislature refused to act on it last year.The House...
View ArticleMarlborough: Florida man arrested after fight following hockey game
MARLBOROUGH – A conflict during a hockey game at the New England Sports Center Sunday night led to an off-ice fight later that left one player with serious injuries and another facing assault charges,...
View ArticleProsecutor: Exec of Framingham drug company ignored safety
BOSTON — The former president of a compounding pharmacy blamed for a deadly meningitis outbreak in 2012 put "profits over patients" and ignored repeated warning signs that drugs manufactured by his...
View ArticleOfficial: Rioting prisoners were 'getting ready for war'
Rioting inmates armed themselves and "were getting ready for war" during a disturbance at a maximum security prison in Massachusetts, the state's top public safety official said Tuesday.The incident at...
View ArticleAshland man held without bail after crash
A Framingham District Court judge on Tuesday ordered an Ashland man held without bail after the man’s second crash in two months in which police allege he was impaired.Judge David Cunis revoked Collin...
View ArticleCDC officials 'very scared' by meningitis deaths
As a fungal meningitis outbreak began to unfold across the country in 2012, patients were dying at an alarming rate said Dr. Benjamin Park, a division chief at the U.S. Center for Disease Control and...
View ArticleAshland man drives drunk for 2nd time in 2 months, say police
A Framingham District Court judge on Tuesday ordered an Ashland man held without bail after the man’s second crash in two months in which police allege he was impaired.Judge David Cunis revoked Collin...
View ArticleDecomposed body found in upscale Brookline home
Sister lived with body for more than a year in home that showed signs of hoarding disorder.
View ArticleHudson: Selectmen OK budget requests
HUDSON – Selectmen approved the proposed fiscal 2018 spending plans of a handful of departments and committees during a second round of budget hearings Monday.The largest item board members signed off...
View ArticleFramingham Police: Man stole video game system
FRAMINGHAM – A Framingham man got caught in the act of stealing an expensive video game system on Wednesday from a Rte. 30 store, police said.Police arrested Tyler N. Bartlett, 22, after he stole a...
View ArticleHopkinton Police: Holliston man driving on three wheels arrested
A Holliston man pulled over for driving on three tires and without a bumper on Tuesday told Hopkinton Police he was just on his way home, authorities said.Hopkinton Police arrested Zachary P. Condon,...
View ArticleNECC trial: Outdated drugs used to make medications, FDA says
Federal Drug Administration Special Agent Frank Lombardo identified more than a dozen bottles of expired drugs, some decades old, that were seized in 2012 from the New England Compounding Center in...
View ArticleEscaped federal prisoner captured in Somerville
SOMERVILLE – In his last moments of freedom, James Morales desperately climbed a fence to escape a state police trooper and a return to prison.He made it over one fence but Trooper James Merrick...
View ArticlePolice seek son in Blackstone man's death
BLACKSTONE - An 83-year-old man was found slain in his home and his 48-year-old son, who once served prison time for threatening President Bill Clinton, is being sought in connection with the...
View ArticlePolice search for son in murder of Blackstone man
BLACKSTONE - An 83-year-old man was found slain in his home and his 48-year-old son, who once served prison time for threatening President Bill Clinton, is being sought in connection with the...
View ArticleCause of downtown Framingham fire still not known
FRAMINGHAM – Investigators still do not know what caused a fire that heavily damaged nine Concord Street businesses three weeks ago.Those businesses remain closed after the Dec. 27 fire.The fire, which...
View ArticleNECC TRIAL: Feds build case against exec of Framingham drug company
BOSTON - Federal prosecutors presented new evidence Wednesday that links Barry Cadden to fake prescription lists for medications made at the now-defunct New England Compounding Center in...
View ArticleJudge to weigh OUI evidence
CONCORD — A legal challenge that could derail scores of drunk driving cases will get underway next week in Concord, where lawyers will argue the breath testing equipment used by police across...
View ArticleBlackstone: Son sought after father was killed is captured
BLACKSTONE - A man who served prison time in the 1990s for threatening to kill President Bill Clinton and who was wanted over the death of his 83-year-old father at their home has been arrested,...
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