April 15, 2016 Mother of OD victim earns praise for death notice bluntness A Massachusetts mother's blunt yet heartfelt tribute after her daughter died from a heroin overdose is spreading around the world via social media and earning praise for its brutal honesty.
April 15, 2016 Boston marks 3 years after deadly marathon bombings Boston marked the third anniversary of the deadly 2013 marathon bombings with subdued remembrances.
April 15, 2016 Brothers running Boston Marathon to honor mother who lost battle to rare cancer Lucas and Kyle Bullerjahn have followed different training styles for the Boston Marathon, which they’re set to run Monday.
April 15, 2016 Boston mobster who posed as Idaho rancher sentenced to prison A longtime fugitive and Boston Mafia associate who spent years on the lam as an Idaho rancher was sentenced Thursday for unlawful possession of firearms U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge sentenced Enrico M. Ponzo, aka Jay Shaw, to serve 46 months in prison.
April 14, 2016 Lawyers ask to relocate carjack killings trial Lawyers for a man sentenced to death in the 2001 carjack killings of two Massachusetts men have repeated their request to move his retrial out of Boston.
April 14, 2016 Woman awaiting retrial in medicine-denial death is released A Massachusetts woman convicted of withholding potentially life-saving medications from her cancer-stricken son has been released from prison while awaiting a new trial.
April 14, 2016 Blind cow that lost pig pal gets new friend in rescued calf A calf that spent several days on the loose in Massachusetts is now a companion for a blind cow that recently lost a pig playmate.
April 14, 2016 More UMass student protesters arrested during second sit-in University of Massachusetts officials say police arrested 19 student protesters who were among those occupying an administrative building on the school's Amherst campus.
April 13, 2016 15 UMass fossil fuel divestment protesters arrested Fifteen students at the University of Massachusetts' Amherst campus demanding that the system divest from fossil fuel investments have been arrested after refusing to end their sit-in at the school's administration building.
April 12, 2016 Key player in Massachusetts drug lab scandal out of prison The former Massachusetts drug lab chemist convicted of faking test results and tampering with evidence in criminal drug cases is out of prison.
