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“Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Dina Manzo’s ex-husband and an alleged member of an organized crime family were charged by federal prosecutors Tuesday with conspiring to assault Manzo’s then-boyfriend in an incident in 2015. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey said Thomas Manzo and John Perna faces multiple charges over the assault on her now-husband, David Cantin...

A Bristol man has been charged with human trafficking and promoting prostitution after a woman accused him of acting as her pimp and withholding money and property from her to keep her in his control.

Stephanie DeTomasi, 30, of Burlington, is charged with leaving the scene of personal injury, leaving the scene of property damage, destroying evidence, negligent operation of a vehicle and speeding in connection with the Oct. 13 hit-and-run crash in which she allegedly struck four children.

A woman charged in an incident this month where a car plowed into a group of children in Stoneham, Massachusetts, and then fled the scene, has a prior criminal history involving drug use and driving citations, prosecutors revealed Tuesday. Stephanie DeTomasi, 30, of Burlington, is charged with leaving the scene of personal injury, leaving the scene of property damage, destroying...

The man who allegedly shot two people in a church in Pelham, New Hampshire, is facing attempted murder charges.

Dale Holloway, 37, is facing charges of attempted murder, causing bodily injury by means of a deadly weapon, second-degree assault, simple assault and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He’s due in court Tuesday. It’s unclear if he has an attorney.

The man accused of trying to kidnap a teenager after she got off a school bus in Worcester, Massachusetts, faced a judge on Tuesday.

A Massachusetts man is being held on $10,000 bail for allegedly trying to kidnap and assault a young girl after she got off a school bus in Worcester Monday afternoon. Jose Palau, 37, of Worcester, tried to hide his face during his arraignment Tuesday in Worcester District Court where he was charged with attempted kidnapping, accosting someone of the opposite...

Purdue Pharma gets its day in court Tuesday after the OxyContin maker filed for bankruptcy and negotiated a potential multi-billion dollar settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits. An initial hearing will be held in federal court in White Plains, New York, for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Purdue filed for bankruptcy protection late Sunday, the first step in a plan...

A Massachusetts man who founded a home for young women battling drug addiction in honor of his late daughter has been ordered to remain in custody following charges he assaulted three people at a high school. A Lowell District Court judge on Friday deemed Timothy Grover, of Dracut, a danger and ordered him to remain in custody, citing prior violent...

A Michigan man has been charged with murder after investigators concluded he spiked his wife’s bowl of cereal with heroin.

Four years after founding a charity to help young women, Tim Grover allegedly followed a woman into a Massachusetts high school, threatened to rape her, attacked a student and a teacher, and tried to bite one of the officers who arrested him. The 55-year-old Dracut resident, a prominent member of the Merrimack Valley community, appeared in court Tuesday to answer...

Rapper Meek Mill pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge Tuesday in a deal that resolves a 2007 arrest that has kept him on probation or in prison for most of his adult life. The negotiated plea comes after an appeals court threw out his conviction last month over doubts about the arresting officer’s credibility. The 32-year-old rapper, born Robert...

Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to possessing a firearm without a license in a move that spared him a retrial and additional prison time.
The plea ended a decadelong legal battle that garnered national attention and became a symbol for criminal justice reform.

A bus driver is due in court after a child suffered a medical emergency after the driver allegedly failed to check the bus for students before she left.

A school bus driver who reportedly failed to do routine safety checks the day a student was found suffering from a seizure will appear in court Tuesday. Christy Hathaway, 60, of Middleborough, Massachusetts is expected to be arraigned at Taunton District Court as she faces a reckless endangerment of a child under 18 charge, according to Raynham Police Chief James Donovan.

New details are emerging in court paperwork about the crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire over the weekend. Vlodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was arrested Monday morning at his West Springfield, Massachusetts home. He is accused of driving a pickup truck towing a flatbed trailer that collided with with a group of motorcyclists on Friday night, leaving victims strewn on...

New details are emerging in court paperwork about the crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire over the weekend. Vlodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was arrested Monday morning at his West Springfield, Massachusetts home. He is accused of driving a pickup truck towing a flatbed trailer that collided with with a group of motorcyclists on Friday night, leaving victims strewn on...

The estranged husband of Jennifer Dulos, the suburban Connecticut mother of five now missing for more than two weeks, and his girlfriend pleaded not guilty to charges in connection with her disappearance Tuesday, as prosecutors unveiled new forensic information for the first time in several days.

Jennifer Dulos, a mom of five from New Canaan, has now been missing for 18 days and her estranged husband is expected to appear in court Tuesday in connection with the missing person case.