Gov. Maura Healey recommended six people be pardoned for crimes committed decades ago when they were in their teens and 20s, many of whom were convicted of drug-related infractions.
Crime
Massachusetts Republicans look to give power to courts in violent illegal immigrant cases
Top Massachusetts Republicans are filing legislation that they say would give local courts more tools to protect the public from illegal immigrants who have been arrested for violent crimes.
Detainer disputes: ICE officials blast Mass. courts for releasing suspects wanted by immigration
A debate on how Massachusetts courts address ICE detainers against illegal immigrants has heated up after a local superior court released a noncitizen charged with forcibly raping a minor.
More than decade-old sexual assault case in Acton concludes with 15-year sentence for Lunenburg man
ACTON — After more than a decade, justice has finally been served for the victim of a brutal sexual assault in Acton.
Massachusetts hate crime: Quincy man sentenced to 18 months after tirade against Asian family
A federal court judge has sentenced a 78-year-old white Quincy man to 18 months in prison for threatening to kill an Asian family, telling them to “go back to China,” before he drove his car into a member of the family.
FBI extradites man who allegedly left girlfriend’s body at Boston’s Logan Airport, fled to Kenya
The alleged killer of a Brockton nurse who fled to Kenya in 2023 was extradited back to Massachusetts over the weekend, the Boston Division of the FBI and the Massachusetts State Police announced Monday.
