Cops: Weymouth woman faces assault charges after fight outside primary school
WEYMOUTH – Police say a 36-year-old Weymouth woman punched and kicked another woman and threatened her with a knife during a schoolyard brawl.Officers arrested Angela M. Coveney, of 54 Joseph A. Fern...
View ArticleWeymouth police say accused drunk driver thought he 'could get away with it'
WEYMOUTH – A Weymouth man charged with third-offense drunken driving told officers who arrested him that he thought he could get away with it, police say.Police arrested Joseph R. Nolan Jr., 59, of 16...
View ArticleReview shows prosecutors seldom punished for misconduct
Massachusetts prosecutors have violated defendants’ rights to a fair trial regularly and without punishment, even as wrongfully convicted victims of tainted prosecutions have spent years in prison...
View ArticleBrockton man charged with selling heroin in Weymouth
Police charged Rui A. Afonseca, Jr., 44 Hill Street, Brockton with distribution of heroin, distribution of fentanyl, conspiracy to violate the drug laws and committing a drug violation near Sacred...
View ArticleFentanyl flophouse in Whitman raided by WEB Task Force
WHITMAN - A Whitman apartment, where fentanyl was being sold and where at least five people had overdosed at in the past four months, was raided by the WEB Task Force Monday night, police said.Members...
View ArticleAbington man sentenced for stealing dead mother's social security benefits
ABINGTON – An Abington man was sentenced in a Boston courtroom Tuesday for stealing $65,311 of his dead mother’s Social Security benefits.Mark Gardner, 57, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Senior...
View ArticleAttorney reprimanded for inappropriate question in Stoughton murder trial
The judge told the defense attorney he was being inappropriate while questioning a state trooper.
View ArticleMilton crash leads to 'enormous' cocaine seizure
MILTON - Police say a Milton detective who stopped to help two men whose car slid off the road during Monday's spring snowstorm found something he wasn't expecting: More than 3.5 pounds of cocaine and...
View ArticleSouth Boston man arraigned for fatal Quincy crash
A South Boston man has pleaded innocent to vehicular manslaughter and two other charges stemming from a Quincy crash that killed a Braintree man last summer.
View ArticleQuincy woman charged with drunk driving in crash that killed dog
A Quincy woman is facing a drunken-driving charge after police say she was involved in a crash at Mount Wollaston Cemetery that killed her dog, which was ejected from the vehicle.
View ArticleFeds say Hingham bank executive stole from clients
BOSTON - Federal prosecutors have accused a former bank executive from Hingham with stealing millions of dollars from clients by charging "secret commissions" that were deliberately hidden from...
View ArticlePolice: Scene of Whitman raid served a fentanyl flophouse
WHITMAN - A Whitman apartment, where fentanyl was being sold and where at least five people had overdosed at in the past four months, was raided by the WEB Task Force Monday night, police said.Members...
View ArticleHingham man accused of stealing millions from pension clients
BOSTON - Federal prosecutors have accused a former bank executive from Hingham with stealing millions of dollars from clients by charging "secret commissions" that were deliberately hidden from...
View ArticleDog killed as car crashes over wall into Quincy cemetery
A Quincy woman is facing a drunken-driving charge after police say she was involved in a crash at Mount Wollaston Cemetery that killed her dog, which was ejected from the vehicle.
View ArticlePrincipal of the year winner from Dedham charged with driving frunk
Dedham Middle School Principal Debra Gately, who was named the state's middle school principal of the year in 2015, was arrested Sunday on a drunken driving charge.Weston Police said Gately was stopped...
View ArticleQuincy woman arraigned on drunken driving charge after crash that killed dog
QUINCY – On the same day a Quincy woman was charged with drunken driving in a crash that killed her dachshund-mix, she showed up for a supervised visit with her daughter after she’d been drinking and...
View ArticleHingham traffic stop leads to drug charges for Randolph man
Kenneth R. Berry Jr., 36, faces three counts of alleged possesion of cocaine and prescription drugs. He was stopped on Route 3A when a patrol officer recognized him and the car from a suspended license...
View ArticleWoman who fled California arrested in Norwell
NORWELL – Police have arrested a woman on a fugitive-from-justice warrant in connection with an elder-abuse case from California.Julie Cromer, 47, was arrested at a rented house on Cross Street after...
View ArticleWeymouth armed robbery suspect held on bail, cops search for two others
WEYMOUTH – A Scituate man with a long criminal record is being held on high bail while police search for two additional men involved in a violent armed robbery at a North Weymouth motel.Phillip L....
View ArticleRift at Quincy company leads to legal battle between Duxbury residents
A pair of Duxbury residents are suing each other for tens of millions of dollars after their business partnership ended contentiously last year.
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