Following a federal jury’s decision last month to impose the ultimate penalty on the Boston Marathon bomber, it was no surprise when the judge in the case gave the…
Officials say a Boston man who volunteered for combat service in Israel’s army won’t be put behind bars for eating a non-kosher sandwich after all, following an international kerfuffle over…
A Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer who specializes in operating-under-the-influence cases was being held in lieu of $75,000 cash bail on Monday after himself being charged in an OUI case.
Federal law protects Backpage.com in a suit by three women who allege ads on the website facilitated their sale for sex as children, a Boston federal judge has ruled.
There was good news and bad news Monday for public defenders trying to get Massachusetts to dismiss some 40,000 criminal charges linked to a rogue chemist working at a state…
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev showed no emotion on Friday as a federal jury, after 14 hours of deliberation, made a rare decision to impose the death penalty for the fatal bombings near…
A Massachusetts judge has ruled that protesters who participated in an 11-year vigil at their shuttered church are trespassers who must leave by May 29.
A bias commission in Massachusetts has ordered a Revere lawyer to pay $233,000 for targeting Hispanic clients in ads for mortgage modifications and then providing “substandard service.”
A nearly 20-year legal battle by a convicted murderer seeking gender reassignment surgery at taxpayer expense ended Monday when the nation’s top court declined to hear an appeal by Michelle…
A psychiatrist testifying in the trial of alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Tuesday said the defendant’s father reported being tortured in a Russian camp during the Chechen wars and…
The top court in Massachusetts has denied bar admission for a would-be lawyer who supported his application with a lawyer’s letter of recommendation written as a result of a legal…