BOSTON — A judge who has been sharply critical of federal prosecutors in Boston has decided not to punish Assistant U.S. Attorney Suzanne Sullivan for withholding evidence from a defendant.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — An Alabama college professor accused of killing three colleagues during a faculty meeting is likely insane, and she can’t remember the shootings, her attorney said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Auerhahn thought he had a smoking gun in a witness who testified that mobster Vincent Ferrara ordered a hit. Problem is, the witness lied. Worse, a judge ruled Auerhahn knew he lied — and covered it up. In part three of a series, we consider the Justice Department’s handling of the case.

BOSTON — An AMBER alert is underway in Massachusetts as police search for a 1-year-old girl who was allegedly taken from a gas station in Swansea.

A longtime federal prosecutor for the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston could face possible suspension or disbarment for what the federal court’s chief judge has called “extreme misconduct” and possible perjury. Seven years ago, a judge found that Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Auerhahn intentionally withheld evidence that could have cleared two men charged in a murder case. In the second report in a series, we dive into the misconduct case against Auerhahn.

BOSTON — Documents unearthed Tuesday indicate that Amy Bishop fled the house after the fatal 1986 shooting of her brother, subsequently threatened two men with a shotgun and was arrested at gunpoint. The district attorney who reviewed the case says that information was not given to him in early 1987.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — When police finally tracked down Amy Bishop on the day she shot and killed her teenage brother in 1986, she was crouching behind a parked car, carrying a shotgun at waist level with one round in the chamber and a second in her pocket.

A longtime federal prosecutor for the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston could face possible suspension or disbarment for what the federal court’s chief judge has called “extreme misconduct” and possible perjury. Seven years ago, a judge found that Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Auerhahn intentionally withheld evidence that could have cleared two men charged in a murder case. In the first report in a series, we consider the crucial evidence that Auerhahn never turned over.

BOSTON — Prof. Tom Nolan says that he used to review police reports as part of his duties and he would have “thrown (the 1986 Bishop case) right back” at the submitting officers for further investigative work.

BOSTON — John Polio, the Braintree police chief when Amy Bishop shot her brother in 1986, now wonders whether the Bishop family got away with a story that protected their daughter from a murder charge.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Grieving relatives of three professors gunned down at a university faculty meeting questioned why their accused colleague was hired despite a dispute with a former boss who received a pipe bomb and the shooting death of her brother.

BRAINTREE, Mass. — An Alabama university professor accused of shooting three colleagues to death at a faculty meeting this week shot her younger brother dead at their home in Braintree more than 20 years ago, but records of it are missing, police said.

BRAINTREE, Mass. — An Alabama university professor accused of fatally shooting three colleagues at a faculty meeting this week shot her younger brother dead at their home in the Boston suburbs more than 20 years ago, but records of it are missing, police said Saturday.

The death of the father of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan was ruled a homicide Tuesday when an autopsy showed he died of a heart rhythm problem after a fight with his son in which he suffered a neck injury so severe it damaged his windpipe.

BOSTON — The state’s highest court Friday overturned the conviction of a man accused of sending sexually graphic instant messages to a 13-year-old girl, ruling that such messages aren’t banned by Massachusetts law.