QUINCY – The last time Patrick Holland saw his father, it was on a television screen in a Canton courtroom more than a decade ago.Holland, then 14, was there urging a judge to give him a chance to sever his legal relationship with his father, Daniel Holland, who six years earlier had murdered his estranged wife, Patrick’s mother, in their Quincy apartment, leaving her bludgeoned, bullet-riddled body for 8-year-old Patrick to find.Daniel Holland was now [...]
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Now grown, Patrick Holland keeps low profile as father seeks new trial for killing mother in Quincy
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Victim of Easton shooting dies
The man who was found shot in the woods of Easton earlier this week died on Friday night at a Boston hospital.
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Defendant in Weymouth robbery case now charged with child rape
HINGHAM - A former Scituate man whose mother was the victim of a brutal murder in Quincy more than a decade ago is behind bars again after his arrest earlier this month on child rape charges.Phillip L. Attardi, the 47-year-old son of the late Catherine Menkell, is facing two counts of indecent assault and battery of a child under age 14 and one count each of statutory child rape and subsequent-offense heroin possession. Judge Heather Bradley set bail at $50,000 and revoked his [...]
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Next hearing in Quincy murder case set for Dec. 5
The attorney for the Germantown man accused of murdering another man by attacking him in a Quincy Center barroom last year has filed a motion to dismiss in Dedham Superior Court.
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Stash of guns, drugs found in Braintree apartment complex
BRAINTREE - Police say an officer was hit by a car Friday as police were trying to arrest a heavily armed man accused of stashing guns, pills and other drugs in a Braintree apartment he’d been renting.Interim Braintree Police Chief Paul Shastany said the officers were able to detain the man, 21-year-old Dominic C. Zammuto, and arrested him on charges including assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, possession of a large-capacity firearm and drug trafficking. Shastany [...]
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Man says he was robbed at gunpoint in Stoughton
A Bassick Circle resident told police he was robbed and threatened at gunpoint Sunday night.
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Quincy police release scooter photos in burglaries probe
Police are asking the public to help them identify a person of interest in a series of burglaries in the Quincy Avenue area.
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Police step up patrols in Braintree Highlands after report of suspicious man
BRAINTREE – Police are asking residents in the Highlands to keep an eye out for a man who was seen hanging out around a home he does not live in and possibly watching school buses at the end of the day. In a message to residents, Officer Ed Woo said officers would like to talk to the man, but stressed that he has not been linked to any violent or abusive crime. He said the man is light skinned, has a full beard and was driving a newer black pickup truck.Woo [...]
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WATCH: Lawyers argue to overturn 24,000 convictions after drug lab scandal
Roughly 24,000 convictions could be overturned if the state’s Supreme Judicial Court decides in favor of the plaintiffs in a case that will be argued at 11 a.m. today.Three named defendants and the approximately 24,000 other "Dookhan defendants," are suing the state in an attempt to overturn convictions based on what they call "tainted evidence" arising from Annie Dookhan’s illegal falsification criminal drug tests. [...]
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Police seek scooter-riding burglar who targeted Quincy mosque
Police are asking the public to help them identify a person of interest in a series of burglaries in the Quincy Avenue area.
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Court hearing delayed for Quincy official accused of drunk driving
A show-cause court hearing has been pushed back for the Quincy zoning official accused of driving drunk last month when his car crashed into a Houghs Neck home.
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22 years later, a drunken driver shows up for his day in court
On Wednesday Alexander W. Richey, 54, of South Carolina, pleaded guilty in Hingham District Court to charges open since 1994. Police said Richey returned because he couldn't renew his South Carolina license if he didn't.
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Quincy mosque official says recent burglaries are not hate crimes
Police are asking the public to help them identify a person of interest in a series of burglaries in the Quincy Avenue area.
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22 years later, man shows up in Hingham court to resolve OUI case
HINGHAM - Cold-case suspects rarely show up at court on their own, but Alexander W. Richey did Wednesday at Hingham District Court – 22 years after he was arrested on a drunken-driving chargeHingham police Sgt. Steven Dearth said Richey – now 54 and living in South Carolina – contacted a local attorney last week to clear up a case police had kept open since July 1, 1994.The attorney told the court and police that Richey’s South Carolina [...]
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Lawyers argue to overturn 24,000 convictions after drug lab scandal
Roughly 24,000 convictions could be overturned if the state’s Supreme Judicial Court decides in favor of the plaintiffs in a case that will be argued at 11 a.m. today.Three named defendants and the approximately 24,000 other "Dookhan defendants," are suing the state in an attempt to overturn convictions based on what they call "tainted evidence" arising from Annie Dookhan’s illegal falsification criminal drug tests. [...]
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Former speaker Sal DiMasi released after five years in prison
Former House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi will leave a North Carolina prison roughly two years before his projected release date on account of his ailing health, federal Judge Mark Wolf ruled Thursday.Wolf allowed a government motion to reduce DiMasi's eight-year sentence to time served, ordering the Bureau of Prisons to release DiMasi to his wife Deborah DiMasi's custody on Tuesday morning, two days before Thanksgiving. They are [...]
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Drunk driver who killed Quincy teacher sentenced to 3 years in prison
York resident Carolyn Lee was sentenced Thursday to serve three years in prison for driving drunk and killing a beloved Quincy teacher before fleeing the scene.
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Drunk driver who killed Quincy teacher gets 3 years in prison
Family and friends remember Emily Zarnoch in emotional statements at the sentencing of the drunk driver who killed her.
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Driver charged in hit-and-run crashes in Pembroke
PEMBROKE - A Brockton man was arrested Friday morning after police say he crashed into two cars and fled on foot into nearby woods.Claudio Araujo, 28, was charged with failing to stop for police, driving to endanger, leaving the scene of crashes with personal and property damage, driving with a suspended license and violating license plate regulations. He was due to be arraigned in Plymouth District Court.Pembroke police said an officer first tried to pull Araugo over [...]
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South Shore communities look for ways to control pot sales
Many South Shore officials are trying to make it so people can't legally buy pot in their towns and cities.
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