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Now grown, Patrick Holland keeps low profile as father seeks new trial for...

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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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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