Some members of a disability rights group face trespassing charges for attempting to force their way into the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton Monday evening.
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Activists call for changes at the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton
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Weymouth men indicted in wine-bottle attack on autistic man
DEDHAM - A Norfolk County grand jury has indicted four people, including two men from Weymouth, accused of attacking an autistic man who police say was robbed and beaten with a wine bottle this summer.Tiago A. Teixeira and Christopher M. Keeley, both of Weymouth, are facing nearly a dozen charges stemming from the attack, including armed robbery, armed assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury. Two other co- [...]
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Hingham man charged for 'classic Ponzi scheme'
Secretary of State William Galvin said he'll also seek an emergency order to keep Stephen Eubanks from taking more money from investors. Eubanks faces a civil hearing for taking $529,000 from investors since 2011.
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Police say driver who hit Quincy pedestrian hadn't scraped frost from windshield
QUINCY - Police say a Brockton man who hit a pedestrian in Quincy on Tuesday morning told officers he couldn't see the woman because he hadn't scraped all of the morning frost from his windshield.Capt. John Dougan of the Quincy Police Department said the driver, 33-year-old Ed Pierre, was cited for impeded operation and failing to yield to a pedestrian. The 42-year-old Quincy woman he alleged hit was brought to Boston Medical Center with a cut on her knee.Dougan said [...]
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Brockton lawyer confirmed as Plymouth judge
An Easton man, who is an attorney in Brockton, was approved as a district court judge Wednesday.The Governor's Council approved Edward H. Sharkansky for a seat on the Plymouth District Court."I'm just excited to serve," he told The Enterprise. "It was an opportunity to serve – to lead both professionally and in my community."Sharkansky is currently the town moderator in Easton, where he lives with his wife and two children, but will have to step down, [...]
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Jurors hear gruesome details of carjack killings in Sampson retrial
Gary Sampson’s lawyer, William McDaniels, urged the jury at his retrial to spare Sampson’s life and instead sentence him to life in prison. He said Sampson has struggled with traumatic brain injury since the age of 4, when he fell down a flight of stairs, and has received at least a dozen head injuries during his life.
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Kingston State Trooper's vehicle homicide trial underway
John Basler, 28, of Kingston, is also charged with manslaughter while driving drunk and other offenses for the September 2013 head-on collision in Plymouth that fatally injured Susan Macchi and her daughter Juliet Macchi, both of Carver. Basler has been suspended without pay since soon after the crash.
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Police investigating Quincy convenience store burglary
QUINCY – Police say a burglar was caught on camera breaking into a Quincy Avenue convenience store early Monday morning and grabbing money from a cash register.Capt. John Dougan of the Quincy Police Department said officers were sent to Chab’s Daily Mart after an alarm was activated around 4 a.m. Monday. He said surveillance footage from the store, located at 291 Quincy Ave., shows a white man in dark pants working to pry open the front door with what appears to be a [...]
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Man set up online, robbed at knifepoint in Stoughton
A Norwood man thought he was meeting a woman in Stoughton, but was instead robbed at knifepoint.
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Governor Baker confirms investigation of Environmental Police
The Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs is investigating a pattern WCVB-TV uncovered of environmental police officers spending portions of the work day at home and receiving overtime for patrolling parks and pools, Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday.A five-month undercover investigation by 5 Investigates turned up footage of environmental police with their state vehicles at home for hours at a time [...]
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Former Quincy man seeks new trial in wife's murder
BOSTON - A former Quincy man who murdered his estranged wife and left her body for their 8-year-old son to find is due back in court in this week as he makes his latest bid for a new trial.Daniel L. Holland, who’s serving a life sentence without a chance for parole, argues in his appeal to the state Supreme Judicial Court that a series of lawyers who represented him in the lead up to his 2001 trial failed to explore a history of mental illness and consider mounting an [...]
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Weymouth woman charged with stomping kitten to death
A Weymouth woman is facing an animal cruelty charge after allegedly stomping on her kitten and killing it in a drunken rage.
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State trooper acquitted of manslaughter in death of mother and daughter in Plymouth
State Trooper John Basler, of Kingston, was found not guilty of two counts of vehicular manslaughter in the crash that killed Carver residents Susan and daughter Juliet Macchi. He was found guilty of drunk driving and carrying a loaded firearm while drunk.
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Court upholds decision in Quincy indecent assault case
QUINCY - The state’s highest court has denied the request of a man who sought to withdraw his plea in a Quincy indecent assault case because he wasn’t told about the consequences of having to register as a sex offender.In a decision issued Wednesday, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that William J. Sylvester’s constitutional right to legal representation was not violated when his lawyer in 2002 advised him that a guilty plea would require him to "register" [...]
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Vandals damage earth-moving equipment in Cohasset
COHASSET - Police say vandals who damaged heavy equipment at a Cohasset construction site over the weekend appeared to have targeted the owner of a Hanover excavation company who has suffered similar attacks in the past.Police said the vandals cut hydraulic lines and punched holes in the radiators of five pieces of earth-moving equipment that the owner of Site Pro Excavating had parked in a work site at 231 Chief Justice Cushing Highway, leaving nearby equipment owned by other [...]
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Trooper involved in fatal Plymouth crash gets 120-day sentence
BROCKTON - A State Police trooper from Kingston will spend 120 days in Dukes County jail on Martha’s Vineyard for driving drunk and speeding at the time of a head-on accident in Plymouth that killed a mother and daughter.At John Basler’s sentencing Wednesday, Judge Gary Nickerson said that while Basler did not cause the accident that killed Susan Macchi and her 23-year-old daughter, Juliet, Sept. 22, 2013, he contributed to their deaths because of his choice to drive [...]
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Sentence upheld for Weymouth man who raped, killed cousin
BOSTON - The state’s highest court has upheld the life sentence of a former Weymouth man who raped and killed his 6-year-old cousin at his grandmother’s house nine years ago.In a decision issued Thursday, the Supreme Judicial Court threw out Ryan Bois’s conviction on a home invasion charge, saying there wasn’t enough evidence to support it, but affirmed nine other convictions, including for first-degree murder, and left in place his life sentence without [...]
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Contractors offering reward in Cohasset vandalism case
After vandals damaged heavy equipment belonging to Hanover-based Site Pro Excavating, local contractors are banding together to offer a monetary reward for information leading to an arrest.
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Stoughton detective spots car, leads to arrest of bank robber
A man wanted for robbing a Revere bank while armed and wearing a Halloween mask in late October was arrested in Stoughton on Thursday.
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16-year-old shot on Neponset River bike path
The shooting Friday night took place on a section of the path behind the Ryan Playground in Mattapan and near the Central Avenue trolley stop, state police said.
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