Fall River man charged with kidnapping and beating woman
A Fall River man is being held without bail on charges of attempted murder, kidnapping and animal cruelty.Matthew Devaney, 29, pleaded innocent Friday in Wareham District Court to assault with intent...
View ArticleCareer burglar from Hingham charged in East Boston attack
BOSTON - A career burglar from Hingham is being held without bail on charges he robbed and assaulted a man last week at a reservation in East Boston. It is the same reservation where another man was...
View ArticleStoughton woman charged with threatening acquaintance with knife, scissors
The 26-year-old woman claimed another woman had something of hers and threatened her, police said.
View ArticleObama decries Orlando shooting as an 'act of terror'
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama decried the deadliest mass shooting in American history on Sunday as an "act of terror" and an "act of hate" targeting a place of "solidarity and empowerment"...
View ArticleMan with guns, explosives stopped near Hollywood gay pride parade
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says a heavily armed man arrested in Southern California told police he was in the area for West Hollywood's gay pride parade.Garcetti announced...
View ArticleBoston Pride block parties to honor Orlando shooting victims
BOSTON — Boston Pride organizers planned to hold a moment of silence at this weekend's scheduled block parties to honor the victims of a mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando.A Boston Pride...
View ArticleCanton man seriously injured after fleeing Stoughton police, crashing
The 26-year-old Canton man is in serious condition following Sunday's accident.
View ArticleStoughton teen charged with speeding, fleeing Brockton police
The 18-year-old woman was driving about 75 mph down Oak Street, police said.
View ArticleHingham police warn of new scam with fake 911 calls
Hingham college student got the bogus call Monday morning. A caller whose ID showed as the 911 emergency number demanded iTunes cards to pay a fake college debt. Police say 911 isn't used for emergency...
View ArticleScituate men charged with rape in Cohasset
COHASSET – Two Scituate men have been charged with raping a 15-year-old girl at the home of one of the men’s mother.Zachery P. Chamberlain, 19, of 12 Captain Pierce Road, and Joshua Ford, 20, of 56...
View ArticleWhitman man accused of profanity-laced tirade against police, damaging business
WHITMAN – A 21-year-old Whitman man is accused of a profanity-laced tirade against police and maliciously damaging a downtown business, police said Tuesday.Police said Shaun Austin Minnock, 21, was...
View ArticleCops: Quincy trio assaulted Asian restaurant owners while shouting racial slurs
QUINCY - Two men and a woman, all from Quincy, are facing civil rights violation and assault charges after police say they beat up three owners of a sushi restaurant while shouting racial slurs at...
View Article81-year-old Kingston man shot to death at R.I. cemetery
TIVERTON, R.I. – An 81-year-old Kingston, Mass., man was shot to death in a Rhode Island cemetery Monday night by an 80-year-old man who died an hour later in a shootout with police. Police said John...
View ArticleJudge from Scituate among three nominees to state's highest court
BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday named Frank Gaziano of Scituate, a judge at Brockton Superior Court, as one of his three picks to fill upcoming vacancies on the state Supreme Court.Baker also...
View ArticleHigh court upholds conviction in Hingham double murder
BOSTON - The state's highest court has upheld the conviction of a white supremacist serving a pair of life sentences for the murders of two homeless men whose bludgeoned and mutilated bodies were found...
View ArticleQuincy police charge man with arson after car fire
QUINCY – Police say a Watertown man set his car on fire outside a South Quincy bank and then told officers to arrest him.Police arrested Argirios Marangos, 36, of 76 Green St., Watertown, Tuesday night...
View ArticleQuincy police say DNA links man to unsolved bank robbery
QUINCY – A former Braintree man who is awaiting trial on charges stemming from a knifepoint robbery at a Walmart store has been linked to an unsolved Quincy bank robbery by DNA, police said.Quincy...
View ArticleMan arrested in armed Lakeville bank robbery, assault
The man who committed a violent armed robbery of Bridgewater Savings Bank in Lakeville was arrested Tuesday, police said.
View ArticleSisters blast release of Whitman grandfather who sexually abused them
WHITMAN – Lindsey Pavlin says she’s scared now that her grandfather, Dennis Hunt, is out of jail, after he sexually abused her and her sister Alyssa for nine years when they were children.For the...
View ArticleFour people charged with armed robbery of boy outside Quincy elementary school
QUINCY – A Quincy man and three teenagers have been charged with using a realistic-looking pellet gun to rob a 13-year-old boy outside a city elementary school.Police responded to the Lincoln-Hancock...
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