3 indicted in bloody Braintree fight
DEDHAM — A Norfolk County grand jury has indicted three people who police say were involved in a knock-down, drag-out fight that sent three men to the hospital and left a Braintree home covered in...
View ArticleTwo plead not guilty to charges stemming from a Randolph shooting
DEDHAM — Two men were held on a collective $100,000 bail after pleading not guilty to charges stemming from a Randolph shooting.Brandon A. Varela, 20, of Avon was arraigned in Norfolk Superior Court...
View ArticleNo prison time for Rockland woman who stole Social Security benefits for 17...
BOSTON — A Rockland woman will likely avoid prison time for stealing Social Security benefits for 17 years but will be required to pay back $150,000 to the government.Catherine M. Anzalone, 55, was...
View ArticleWeymouth man held on gun, drug charges
WEYMOUTH — A Weymouth man with prior convictions for selling drugs is being held without bail pending a hearing to determine if he's a danger to the public, after police found more than 87 grams of...
View Article2 indicted in armed robbery, beating at Weymouth gas station
DEDHAM — A Norfolk County Grand Jury has indicted two people in connection with a January gas station robbery in Weymouth in which police say an attendant was hit repeatedly over the head with a...
View ArticleColumbine inspires killers in Brazil school massacre
Friends and former classmates told investigators that 17-year-old Guilherme Taucci Monteiro and 25-year-old Henrique de Castro were obsessed with the attack on Columbine High School, Sao Paulo civil...
View ArticleOfficial: Berkshires fire with 5 dead was murder-suicide
SHEFFIELD (AP) — Authorities believe that a man killed his wife and three children before setting their western Massachusetts house on fire and killing himself.The Berkshire District Attorney tells the...
View ArticlePolice: Florida men posed as water department employees in Stoughton break-in
Police say a Florida man is under arrest for a house break-in in February in which a man posed as a water department employee and forced his way into a home.
View ArticleWorcester firefighter's death ruled a homicide
A 21-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder and arson in the death of a Worcester firefighter Christopher Roy in December.
View ArticleJury deliberations begin in Quincy murder trial
Joseph Beatty is charged with murder and aggravated rape in the 2009 death of his girlfriend Mary Beaton at her Wollaston apartment.
View ArticleArrest made in Marshfield online scam
A man was arrested in New Hampshire and charged with scamming a Marshfield resident.
View ArticleBrockton man killed, body dumped following shooting
One man was killed, The Enterprise has learned, and another man was dropped off at a separate Brockton hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police are investigating the incidents as connected.
View ArticleMen at Plymouth prison sue state officials over civil commitments
PLYMOUTH — A group of 10 men who say they were involuntarily committed to a Plymouth prison instead of a drug and alcohol treatment facility is suing several state agencies and officials, claiming...
View ArticleMan indicted on assault charges from Braintree Super Bowl party
DEDHAM — A Norfolk County grand jury has indicted a Boston man on assault charges after police say a Braintree Super Bowl watch party turned violent. Sasquan Gorman, 27, was charged with assault and...
View ArticleQuincy man found guilty of murder, rape
DEDHAM — A Quincy man has been found guilty in the decade old murder and rape of his-then girlfriend, 33-year-old Mary Beaton.Joseph Beatty, 61, strangled his girlfriend, raped her while she was barely...
View ArticleQuincy man found guilty of first-degree murder in 2009 killing
DEDHAM — A Quincy man was convicted of murder Monday after a jury rejected his attorney's argument that he was mentally ill when he raped and killed his girlfriend more than a decade ago.After...
View ArticlePolice: 3 girls molested by Abington man who was babysitting them
Christopher R. Mulrooney faces several charges of indecent assault and battery on children under the age of 14, and charges of aggravated statutory rape.
View ArticleFormer Carver, Marion trash officials indicted on theft charges
BOSTON — A statewide grand jury on Monday indicted two former officials at the Carver, Marion, Wareham Regional Refuse Disposal District in connection with the theft of more than $675,000 in public...
View ArticleFormer Carver, Marion officials charged in theft of $675,000
BOSTON — A statewide grand jury on Monday indicted two former officials at the Carver, Marion, Wareham Regional Refuse Disposal District in connection with the theft of more than $675,000 in public...
View ArticleHingham lawyer disbarred over conviction for child porn
Steven Dennis O'Connell was disbarred on Feb. 26 nearly a decade after he was charged with four felony counts of possessing child porn and almost three years after his conviction.
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