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The criminal case against a Mexican megachurch leader on charges of child rape and human trafficking was dismissed Tuesday by a California appeals court on procedural grounds.

The Revere man who was convicted of murdering his wife, Vanessa MacCormack, will spend the rest of his life in prison after an emotional sentencing in which he denied ever hurting her.

A Massachusetts man was sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of his wife, a beloved Lynn teacher, though he maintained at the Monday hearing that he was innocent. Andrew MacCormack, 31, was found guilty last month of strangling, beating and stabbing 30-year-old Vanessa MacCormack on Sept. 23, 2017.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of killing two doctors in their South Boston penthouse returned to the scene of the murders on Tuesday and learned new details from the officer who discovered their bodies. Bampimum Teixeira of Chelsea, Massachusetts, is on trial in connection to the May 5, 2017 homicides of Dr. Lina Bolanos and Dr....

Jurors went to the South Boston penthouse where two doctors were murdered.

Jamie Forbes came forward decades after he says his former teacher at Milton Academy attacked him as a teen. Now that the case against Reynold Buono has been dropped, he worries that he revealed his darkest secret for nothing.

A man who killed his wife with a shotgun blast in Windham, Maine, has been convicted of murder. The defense didn’t dispute that Noah Gaston shot his wife, but contended he thought she was an intruder on the morning of Jan. 14, 2016. Prosecutors said he intended to kill Alicia Gaston, or at least acted recklessly.

The man found guilty of multiple charges in the death of a 44-year-old Massachusetts State Police trooper learned his fate on Thursday afternoon. David Njuguna, of Webster, was sentenced to 5-7 years in prison in the crash that killed Trooper Thomas Clardy on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Charlton on March 16, 2016. Njuguna was found guilty last week in Worcester...

The driver convicted in the death of a Massachusetts State Police trooper on the turnpike in 2017 was sentenced to 5-7 years in prison on Thursday.

A Maine man is awaiting a jury’s verdict in his retrial on charges he murdered his wife in their Windham, Maine, home in January 2016. After a week of testimony, jurors heard closing arguments in the case Wednesday morning and they began deliberating around noon.

A Massachusetts man has been found guilty of first degree murder in the death of his wife, a beloved Lynn teacher, in their Revere home two years ago. Andrew MacCormack was accused of strangling, beating and stabbing 30-year-old Vanessa MacCormack on Sept. 23, 2017. The victim was found with a trash bag over her head when her body was discovered,...

Andrew MacCormack was found guilty in the 2017 killing of his wife, Vanessa, a second grade teacher at a school in Lynn, Mass.

A former Vermont police officer was in a St. Albans courtroom Monday, pleading not guilty to an assault charge stemming from the way he handled a handcuffed suspect in March. Defense attorney Rebecca Otey entered a not guilty plea on behalf of her client, Jason Lawton, 31, of Cambridge.

After five full days of deliberation, jurors still have not reached a verdict in a trial against a Revere man accused of killing his wife.

A Massachusetts judge has issued her ruling in the trial of a man charged with causing the 2016 death a state police trooper on the turnpike.

A Massachusetts man has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the 2016 death of a state trooper.

The case of a Revere, Massachusetts, man accused of killing his wife could end in a mistrial if the jury is unable to reach a verdict. A jury in Boston has been deliberating Andrew MacCormack’s murder charge since closing arguments wrapped up last week. He is accused of beating, strangling and stabbing Vanessa MacCormack at their Revere home on Sept....

A verdict has been reached in the trial of a man facing a manslaughter charge in connection to the 2016 death of a Massachusetts State Police Trooper. Judge Janet Kenton-Walker will announce her decision at 3 p.m. on Nov. 12 in the trial of David Njuguna, who is accused of killing Trooper Thomas Clardy after he allegedly struck his police cruiser.

The trial of a man accused of killing his wife, a beloved Massachusetts teacher, two years ago came to a close Wednesday, leaving a jury to decide if she was slain by a profligate husband, as prosecutors claimed, or if the evidence didn’t tie the man to the killing, as his defense lawyers said. A jury in Boston is deliberating...