Two guards at a federal prison in Massachusetts have pleaded not guilty to charges resulting from what authorities called an assault on a “vulnerable inmate.” Seth Bourget, 39, of Woodstock, Connecticut, was arraigned Thursday in federal court in Boston on deprivation of rights charges. Bourget kneed an inmate in the head while the inmate was handcuffed and restrained in a…

A New Hampshire man is facing charges after police say he assaulted two corrections officers over the weekend at the Hillsborough County House of Corrections. Matthew Dionne, 34, was arraigned Tuesday in Hillsborough County Superior Court for the alleged Jan. 11 assault. He was charged with two counts of assaults by prisoners. An officer who was delivering meals was allegedly…

A correction officer was assaulted Friday afternoon at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts, authorities said.

A New York man has been sentenced to two months in prison for beating a woman on a cruise ship off the coast of Massachusetts so severely she required stitches, federal prosecutors say. Adam Damian Panetta, 45, of Farmingville, New York, was also sentenced Wednesday to two years of probation and fined $1,000. He pleaded guilty in September to assault…

A Massachusetts firefighter convicted of sexually abusing a teenage girl for nearly three years has been sentenced. Andrew LeColst, of Middleton, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to three counts of aggravated child rape and one count of indecent assault and battery. LeColst was sentenced to two to five years in state prison followed by five years of supervised probation. The victim…

A Massachusetts Uber driver is accused of assaulting a woman after driving her from Burlington to Leominster over the weekend. Josue Henriquez, 28, of Acushnet, drove two people from a party back to a home in Leominster, according to police in that city. After he went inside for a drink, a woman in the home called 911 to report that…

A Hudson, New Hampshire woman charged with four counts of assaulting a police officer and one count of domestic assault, according to Hudson police.

A Massachusetts man accused of striking another man with a shovel, attacking him with a box cutter and calling him anti-gay slurs has been arrested on charges of assault and committing a hate crime, Boston police said. Boston police officers responded to reports of an assault around noon Tuesday and found a man bleeding from the head. The 25-year-old man…

An arrest was made Saturday in Manchester, New Hampshire for a woman wanted for allegedly sexually assaulting a teenager. Officers made the arrest by acting on an anonymous tip.

New Hampshire police are searching for a woman they say repeatedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy from September to October of this year.

A man in his 60s died at a popular Cambridge, Massachusetts park after he an assault turned deadly.

The first homicide in Brookline in 13 years apparently stemmed from a botched drug deal, court documents show. Singha Oeun was held without bail at his arraignment Thursday in the stabbing death of 20-year-olds Nicolas Kern.

A Danvers, Massachusetts teacher is expected to appear in court after he was accused of sexually assaulting a student.

A man has been arrested for the killing of another man at a park early Tuesday morning in Brookline, Massachusetts. Singha Oeun, 21, was arrested Wednesday with the fatal stabbing of 20-year-old Nicolas “Cole” Kern of Brookline.

The Vermont Department of Corrections says an inmate assaulted a correctional officer while two other inmates attacked a third inmate during an attempted unit takeover the Springfield prison. The department says the officers’ response on Tuesday morning was swift and professional, bringing a dangerous and escalating situation quickly under control.

A 20-year-old man was killed after he was stabbed early Tuesday at a park in Brookline, Massachusetts, according to the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office. The man was found at Amory Playground when police responded to a call at 1:38 a.m., Brookline Police Lt. Harrington said.

Police in Brookline, Massachusetts are investigating after a 20-year-old man was assaulted at a park overnight.