A chaplain exhorted hundreds of mourners gathered at a candlelight vigil to not give up hope as Fort Hood and its surrounding community looked to each other for comfort after an Army psychiatrist allegedly went on a deadly shooting spree at the military base.
A Massachusetts hedge fund manager has been arrested in the huge Galleon insider trading case, and more local businesspeople could still be charged in the alleged scheme.
Carmen Ortiz has been confirmed as the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, becoming the first Hispanic and the first woman to hold the top federal prosecutor’s job in the state.
His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients.
A unit of the state’s maximum security prison in Shirley is in lockdown after an inmate assaulted four correction officers Thursday night.
The state’s highest court is considering a challenge to the Massachusetts law that requires gun owners to lock weapons in their homes.
Boston Police are investigating a fatal shooting in Dorchester near the John Marshall Elementary School.
The embattled city councilor faces federal corruption charges, but still enjoys wide support among voters.
The story of a pregnant woman, murdered in Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood, gripped the city and the newsmedia. But few people were skeptical of her husband’s story — that a black gunman demanded money and opened fire — a story that forced a tense city to reflect.
A top aide to Mayor Thomas Menino deleted some e-mails “inappropriately and without permission,” Secretary of State William Galvin said Thursday.
In the recent brutal murder case that rocked a small New Hampshire town, four teenage suspects were identified from online social networking sites hours before authorities even announced arrests had been made. Dr. Tristan Gorrindo, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital, offers some safe social networking advice for parents and teenagers.
A New Hampshire judge is considering whether to release the information that led police to arrest four teenagers for the brutal murder of a Mont Vernon woman this month. It took police two days to make the arrests, but the teen online rumor mill identified the suspects almost immediately.
The state of California is suing State Street Corp., alleging that the Boston investment bank fraudulently managed California’s pension funds.
Amherst leaders are backing a resolution offering the Massachusetts college town as a possible resettlement home for two Guantanamo detainees if they are released from the military prison.
The highest court in Massachusetts ruled unanimously Monday that cigarette maker Philip Morris may have to pay for computerized chest scans for its customers in an effort to detect early-stage lung cancer.
