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A Massachusetts sheriff who joined a federal immigration enforcement program and offered to send inmates to help build Republican President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is being sued by a civil rights group.

A woman charged with attacking an EMT on an ambulance was in court Thursday.

The ex-brother-in-law of former Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has been sentenced to up to eight years in prison for raping his estranged wife. Bernard Sigh, of Milton, was sentenced Monday in Norfolk Superior Court. He was convicted earlier this month of two counts of rape and several other charges in connection with the December 2017 attack. Sigh was arrested...

The ex-brother-in-law of former Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has been sentenced to up to eight years in prison for raping his estranged wife. Bernard Sigh, of Milton, was sentenced Monday in Norfolk Superior Court. He was convicted earlier this month of two counts of rape and several other charges in connection with the December 2017 attack. Sigh was arrested...

A Massachusetts man is facing a number of charges after police say he assaulted two children and yelled racial slurs at several others Wednesday morning at a Salem bus stop. Scott Deharo, 45, was arraigned Wednesday in Salem District Court on charges of two counts of assault and battery on child, two counts of assault and battery with intent to...

A Massachusetts man is facing numerous charges in connection with a school bus attack on Wednesday morning.

The brother-in-law of former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has been found guilty rape, stalking, kidnapping, witness intimidation and other offenses, according to the Norfolk District Attorney’s office. Bernard Sigh, 67, of Milton, was found guilty of the charges Thursday in Norfolk Superior Court. Sigh was arrested in December 2017 after a woman told police he hid in a closet in...

The Justice Department on Thursday charged a former Air Force intelligence analyst who later became a government contractor with illegally leaking classified information to a reporter, NBC News reported. Daniel Everette Hale allegedly communicated with the reporter for several months, starting at an April 2013 book tour event in Washington. He printed out 11 secret or top-secret documents about U.S....

A Hartford man faces charges after police say he shot himself in the leg by accident and then lied to police about it.

A Brown University employee accused of stalking his ex-girlfriend and secretly planting a GPS device under her vehicle will appear in a Massachusetts courtroom Thursday. The Sun Chronicle reports 43-year-old Tu Le of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, was arrested Saturday night after police investigated claims that the medical lab researcher was stalking a middle school teacher in Mansfield. Le and the...

Months after the Trump administration announced an end to its widescale separation of migrant parents and children, the policy remains a heated issue in the courts and at the border as critics contend the government is still needlessly breaking up immigrant families. The Texas Civil Rights Project released a report Thursday that counts 272 separations at a single Texas courthouse...

A New Jersey woman accused of killing her toddler son, then telling cops he had been kidnapped, told police she struck the boy because he wouldn’t “eat nor listen to her,” according to a criminal complaint.

The suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges Monday as his new lawyer, a prominent death penalty litigator who represented one of the Boston Marathon bombers, signaled he might be open to a plea deal. Robert Bowers, a truck driver who authorities say gunned down 11 people at Tree of Life Synagogue, appeared in...

A man accused of opening fire at a Pittsburgh synagogue in October, killing 11 people and wounding seven others, was indicted Tuesday on additional counts that include allegations of hate crimes. A federal grand jury added 19 charges to the 44 counts previously levied against Robert Bowers, 46, of Baldwin, Pennsylvania. Thirteen of the new counts are hate crime violations...

A Massachusetts man appeared in court Thursday in connection with an alleged road rage incident in Easton. Joseph Rivard, 21, of Brockton was charged with assault and battery on a person over age 60 and disturbing the peace at his arraignment in Taunton District Court.

The fight over a Massachusetts Gaming Commission report on allegations of sexual misconduct against former casino mogul Steve Wynn will be back in a Nevada courtroom next month.

The trial of a former police officer suspected of being a notorious serial killer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 80s could cost taxpayers more than $20 million.

Rhode Island police say a man stole a forklift and drove it around a park, at times trying to ram police cruisers, before he got stuck and had to be forcibly removed. Newport police say 27-year-old Ross Ahlborg, of Narragansett, took the forklift without permission at about 10 p.m. Wednesday and was driving around Fort Adams State Park.

The anti-Semitic truck driver accused of gunning down 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges that could put him on death row, as funerals for the victims of the worst atrocity perpetrated against Jews in American history continued for a third day. Robert Bowers, 46, was arraigned one day after a grand jury issued...