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A lawyer for an Alabama professor who could be executed for allegedly killing three colleagues asked a judge Wednesday to keep a report into the 1986 killing of her brother secret, arguing it could prejudice a jury against her.
A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to block federal subpoenas for Boston College transcripts and recordings of interviews with former members of the Irish Republican Army.
A federal judge in Boston has ordered 14 drug companies into talks that could lead to settlements with 53 women who claim their breast cancer was caused by an anti-miscarriage drug their mothers took decades ago.
A Massachusetts police officer who arrested President Barack Obama's uncle on drunken-driving charges has had nine on-duty accidents during his 15 years on the force.
Arline MacCormack first heard about DES from her mother when she was 17. Three decades later, MacCormack believes that the drug her mother took to prevent miscarriages caused her to develop breast cancer at age 44.
A man who grew up in the Boston suburbs was convicted Tuesday of conspiring to help al-Qaida and plotting to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq after a two-month trial in which jurors heard references to Osama bin Laden and saw dramatic images from the Sept. 11 attacks.
Prosecutors have wrapped up their case in the trial of a Massachusetts man accused of conspiring to help al-Qaida.
A lawyer for a man accused of conspiring to help al-Qaida suggested Wednesday that it was a key prosecution witness, not his client, who wanted to find a terrorist camp in Yemen.
A Delaware man convicted of fraud for faking his way into Harvard was ordered Thursday to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after a Massachusetts judge found he violated his probation by putting the Ivy League school on his resume.
In a story Nov. 17 about the trial of an American accused of plotting to help terrorists, The Associated Press erroneously reported the date authorities said defendant Tarek Mehanna and alleged co-conspirators contacted trial witness Daniel Maldonado about getting automatic weapons for planned mall attacks. Authorities made the statement in October 2009, not Nov. 16 of this year. The story also should have made clear that Mehanna was never indicted on charges related to planned mall attacks.
A Boston judge has ordered the city not to remove protesters or their tents from a downtown encampment without court approval except in an emergency such as fire, a medical issue or an outbreak of violence.
In a story Nov. 14 about a man charged with plotting to attack the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, The Associated Press erroneously reported that an FBI agent testified that the man, Rezwan Ferdaus, was interviewed by the FBI after going into a gun shop in October 2010. It was a friend of Ferdaus whom the agent did not identify, not Ferdaus, who went inside the gun shop.
A Delaware man convicted of fraud for faking his way into Harvard was ordered held without bail Wednesday after admitting he violated his probation by citing the university on a job resume.
Lawyers for a Massachusetts man charged with conspiring to help al-Qaida have lost a bid to bar federal prosecutors from showing jurors gruesome videos of the World Trade Center burning after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the beheadings of Americans.
During a secret search of the home of a Massachusetts man now charged with conspiring to help al-Qaida, authorities found videos depicting violent jihad and an interview with Osama bin Laden in which he says "the battle has moved to inside America," a state trooper testified Friday.
A federal judge on Thursday threw out the death penalty sentence against a man convicted of killing three people in Massachusetts and New Hampshire during a weeklong crime spree in 2001 and ordered a new trial to determine if he will be put to death.
A quadruple amputee who received new hands through a transplant operation says he is looking forward to doing ordinary things again: getting dressed, taking a shower, making coffee and, sweetest of all, touching the faces of his two grandsons.
Prosecutors in the case of a Massachusetts man accused of plotting to kill American troops in Iraq won't be allowed to refer to the troops as "our soldiers" during his trial, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
A newspaper's revelation that the tipster who led the FBI to notorious gangster James "Whitey" Bulger is a former Miss Iceland is raising concerns about her safety and whether the leak might discourage people from coming forward in other high-profile cases.
A former Harvard University student was sentenced Friday to three years in prison after pleading guilty in connection with the 2009 fatal shooting of a Cambridge man during a drug robbery inside a dormitory.
The FBI has paid a $2 million reward to a tipster who provided information that led to the arrest of fugitive crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, according to a Las Vegas man who tried unsuccessfully to claim the reward.
Lawyers for a man charged with providing support to al-Qaida asked a judge Wednesday to postpone the start of his trial, saying they feel "sandbagged" by prosecutors.
It was only after Amy Bishop was charged with killing three of her colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville that authorities in Massachusetts began to wonder if the shooting death of Bishop's brother 24 years earlier might not have been an accident after all.
Parents may be ready to send their kids back to school, but some schools aren't ready to take them back.
President Barack Obama's uncle, an illegal immigrant charged with drunken driving last week, was ordered by an immigration judge to leave the country almost two decades ago, a federal official said Wednesday.
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