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A registered sex offender with a criminal record in four states appeared in a Boston courtroom Thursday handcuffed to a wheelchair, one day after someone recognized him from a surveillance image that aired on TV and called 911. Edwin Fantauzzi, 33, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, had two separate arraignments Thursday on unrelated charges — one for a charge of resisting arrest…

Boston police have arrested a registered sex offender suspected of raping a person downtown over the weekend. Edwin Fantauzzi, a 33-year-old from Lawrence, was arrested Wednesday, police confirm. He faces charges of rape, assault with intent to rape and assault and battery in connection with an attack around 6:30 a.m. Saturday near Harrison Avenue. No further details about the alleged…

Boston police said Sunday they are investigating a reported rape that happened in the city’s downtown area earlier in the weekend. Officers and members from the department’s sexual assault unit responded to a report of a rape around 6:30 a.m. Saturday in the area of Harrison Avenue in Downtown Boston. Police released photos of the suspect wanted in connection...

A rape was reported in downtown Boston early Saturday morning, police said.

A Boston man is facing charges in two rape cases that had gone unsolved for years, prosecutors said Friday. New DNA evidence connected Irving Pierre, a 40-year-old from Roslindale, to the violent rape of a woman in the city’s Arnold Arboretum in 2013 as well as a 2007 rape of a 16-year-old in the city, according to the Suffolk County…

A Rhode Island man appeared in a Massachusetts court Monday to answer to charges of child rape. Police in Hanson said 23-year-old Jared Soltys, a Connecticut native who lives in Providence and attends Brown University, was arrested early Saturday morning after posting a video on social media recorded in the area of Pleasant Street. In court Monday, prosecutors explained that…

A former Massachusetts resident serving time in Texas has been charged with a string of sexual assaults that happened nine years ago in New Bedford. The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office announced the charges Wednesday against Orlando Robles, formerly of Dartmouth, in connection with attacks that occurred in June and July of 2013. A grand jury in Bristol County indicted…

The “Sex and the City” star has denied allegations by the women in a report by The Hollywood Reporter that details alleged assaults in 2004 and 2015.

A federal magistrate judge in Nevada is siding with Cristiano Ronaldo’s lawyers against a woman suing for more than the $375,000 in hush money she received in 2010 after saying the international soccer star raped her in Las Vegas.

Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins is seeking to erase the rape conviction of a man serving a life sentence after the victim said she’s concerned she might have identified the wrong man. Rollins’ office filed a motion last week asking for a new trial for Tyrone Clark, who was sentenced for life in prison for a 1973 rape. Prosecutors…

Henry Wilson, an elected member of the Chelsea School Committee, has been barred from the district and from contacting students amid child rape allegations. Wilson appeared in court Tuesday on charges of child rape and enticing a child, court records show. Prosecutors said the victim was 12. Wilson is also under investigation for having an inappropriate relationship with a student,…

A member of the school committee in Chelsea, Massachusetts, appeared in court Tuesday on charges he raped a child and enticed a child, court records show. Prosecutors said the victim was 12.

A member of the school committee in Chelsea, Massachusetts, appeared in court Tuesday on charges he raped a child and enticed a child, court records show. Prosecutors said the victim was 12. Henry Wilson is also under investigation for having an inappropriate relationship with a student, the school district announced Tuesday. City officials were notified by the Suffolk County District…

Beijing police say the Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has been detained on suspicion of rape.

More than 20 years after a 19-year-old woman was kidnapped and raped by a man in Escondido, an arrest has been made in the heinous case that was once cold, police announced Thursday.

A woman testified that she was five years into a relationship with actor Danny Masterson when he began having sex with her while she slept, as he often did

Rapper Kodak Black has been sentenced to probation for assaulting a teenage girl in a South Carolina hotel room.

A Boston man is accused of raping a teenager over a period of months. Todd Corbett, a 53-year-old man from the city’s Fenway area, appeared before a judge Monday to face three counts of aggravated rape of a child under 16, as well as a charge of distributing obscene material to a minor, according to the office of Suffolk County…

Actor Armie Hammer is under investigation for sexual assault, Los Angeles police said Thursday.

A self-proclaimed white nationalist was sentenced Wednesday to nearly three-and-a-half years in federal prison for threatening to rape the wife of a man who was part of a separate racist group that he believed was harassing him. Christopher Cantwell, a 40-year-old New Hampshire resident and radio host, was found guilty in September of extortion and threatening to injure property or…