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A Massachusetts man who was just 14 when he raped and killed his teacher over a decade ago is planning to change his plea in an assault that allegedly happened while he was in custody months later. Philip Chism was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole for the October 2013 killing of math teacher Colleen Ritzer…

A New Hampshire man who pleaded guilty to a charge tied to a plot to extort Harvard University for bitcoin by making bomb threats was sentenced Thursday. William Giordani, 55, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was arrested last year on charges including making an extortionate bomb threat. That charge was dropped, and in January he pleaded guilty in fed...

A Massachusetts man who was 19 years old when he drowned his father in a Duxbury pond has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Jack Callahan, now 22, told police in 2021 that he tried to exorcise a “demon” from his father, 57-year-old Scott Callahan, by baptizing him at Island Creek Pond. The Plymouth County District Attorney&#82...

A man was fatally shot in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Wednesday night and his suspected killer was arrested, authorities said. Jason Rivera was charged with murder and is being held without bail, the Essex District Attorney’s Office and Lawrence police said in a statement Thursday. The shooting took place on or near Margin Street on Wednesday ev...

Many of us need to take medication everyday, and for some people, it’s a lengthy daily regimen of prescriptions to manage our health. It can be an overwhelming workload, though, for doctors and pharmacists to track all of their patients’ prescriptions, according to Dr. Lisa Rotenstein. She is a primary care provider, who previously work...

A former Massachusetts firefighter who ran a dog training and boarding facility in South Boston where he allegedly abused animals will be on probation for two years after pleading in the case, prosecutors said Thursday. Tyler Falconer, who used to own Falco K9, on Wednesday pleaded to a continuance without a finding on two count of animal cruelty b...

Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden paid a $5,000 civil fine for violating conflict of interest laws during the 2022 Democratic primary election, according to the State Ethics Commission. The violation concerns the Democratic primary for the Suffolk County District Attorney race, which Hayden won over then-Boston city councilor Ricardo Ar...

Fellow U.S. Army reservists who witnessed the mental and physical decline of a colleague who would commit Maine’s deadliest mass shooting told a commission investigating the killings Thursday that they tried to intervene before the tragedy. Six weeks before Robert Card killed 18 people at a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston, his best friend and fel...

A cold front moved through Wednesday night and brought some wicked wind and really cold temperatures Thursday morning.  Lows bottomed out in the teens and 20s across northern New England. Boston slipped down to 34 with patchy frost.  Thursday afternoon will only reach the 50s across the Northeast, with afternoon sea breeze temps at t...

A 29-year-old was arrested on Wednesday after police clocked him driving his BMW over 100 mph on Interstate 93 in Windham, New Hampshire. Troopers were conducting a high-visibility traffic enforcement initiative on I-93 to detect and deter speeding and aggressive drivers when a state police aircraft spotted a BMW 228i traveling at 108 mph. Police o...

The Boston bouncer who stabbed a 23-year-old Marine veteran to death in March of 2022 pleaded guilty to manslaughter during a hearing Thursday morning in Suffolk Superior Court. Alvaro Omar Larrama, who was a bouncer at the former Sons of Boston bar on Union Street near Faneuil Hall, was charged in the killing of Daniel Martinez. Martinez was from ...

Police in Brookline, Massachusetts, issued an advisory Thursday morning to notify the public that a credit card skimmer had been found at a gas station in town. Brookline police didn’t specify which business the skimmer was found at, saying only that it was found the other day inside a gas pump. Police used the opportunity to remind people th...

The judge and lawyers in the Karen Read case on Thursday settled many — but not all — of the issues that were left to decide before the trial, one of Massachusetts’ most closely watched legal sagas, begins next week.