AMHERST, Mass. — 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.
BOSTON — 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.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A former Boston University medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist has been indicted on charges that he assaulted a stripper in Rhode Island.
MONT VERNON, N.H. — A rural community of about 2,300 residents near the Massachusetts border is reeling in the wake of the random, grisly murder of a woman and the maiming of her 11-year-old daughter — allegedly at the hands of four teenagers.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Cambridge lawmaker cited for leaving the scene of a weekend accident says he “panicked” because of his driving history, which includes two drunken driving convictions. “I think my judgment was poor,” said state Sen. Anthony Galluccio said in a WBUR interview.
WORCESTER, Mass. — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing a hot dog from a man at a Worcester city park in August.
BOSTON — The highest court in Massachusetts has ruled that police can install GPS tracking devices in a suspect’s car, as long as they have a warrant.
BOSTON — Deleting an e-mail doesn’t always mean it’s gone forever. Under a state order, Boston city officials have nine days to find hundreds of e-mails allegedly deleted by an aide to Mayor Thomas Menino. We speak with a computer forensics expert to find out what retrieving those e-mails might entail.
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush was released Tuesday after nine months in prison, and he said Iraqi security forces tortured him with beatings, whippings and electric shocks after his arrest.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The Yale graduate student presumed to have been killed in her lab building and stuffed into a wall there was probably not the victim of a random act, police said Monday as they sought to ease fears about student safety.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The city of Cambridge has named 12 people to an independent review panel created after the July arrest of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. by a white police officer investigating a possible break-in at Gates’ home.
BOSTON — A newly released audio tape of Bernard Madoff offers some of the best insight yet into how he worked with hedge fund managers who funneled investor money to him.
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday hears the request for a new trial from the lawyer for defrocked priest Paul Shanley.
BOSTON — The Massachusetts secretary of state has reached an agreement with one of Bernard Madoff’s feeder funds that calls for full restitution for the state’s victims, plus interest.
BOSTON — Gennaro “Jerry” Angiulo, the former New England Mafia underboss who was the crime king of the North End, died Saturday at age 90. After serving 24 years in prison, he died a free man. WBUR’s David Boeri followed his career for four decades and has this remembrance.
