Three people were taken into custody after a car allegedly fleeing police crashed into a fire station in Kingston, Massachusetts, on Monday, damaging part of the building and its power systems.
Police said the three suspects are juveniles and …
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2nd person dies following Cape Cod crash that left teen dead
A second person has died following a crash in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, in August, and the 81-year-old driver said to be involved is now facing a second vehicular homicide charge, police announced on Monday.
The crash — which happened on Aug. 3…
Massachusetts sheriff charged with OUI at MGM Springfield casino
A Massachusetts sheriff was arrested outside the MGM Springfield casino on Saturday and charged with operating under the influence.
Hampden County Sheriff Nick Cocchi was released on his own recognizance following his arrest, according to a spokesman for the sheriff’s office.
“I’m sorry for not living up to the high standards I’ve set for myself, my staff, and the justice-involved population. I take complete responsibility for my actions,” Cocchi said in a statement.
He is expected to be arraigned on Monday in Springfield District Court.
No further details were released.
Cocchi was first elected sheriff in 2016 and was re-elected to a second six-year term in 2022. He is a former correctional officer with the Hampden County Sheriff’s Office.
Tufts men’s lacrosse practice paused after players hurt during workout
Men’s lacrosse practices are still on hold on at Tufts University after a recent workout ended with five players in the hospital.
The Sept. 16 workout was led by a graduate of a Navy SEAL program. Around 50 players participated, and 12 of them were diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, a potentially serious condition where damaged muscles release proteins and electrolytes into the blood, which can lead to kidney damage and potential death.
Experts say this can lead to severe organ issues.
“You go from no workouts to a very difficult workout and you get into this situation,” said Dr. Robert Nascimiento of Newton-Wellesley Hospital.
Tufts said practice will remain canceled until every player is given the all clear.
The school has brought in an outside investigator to do a thorough review of the situation.
Tufts University, located in Medford and Somerville, has about 6,700 undergraduate students. The men’s lacrosse team won its fourth NCAA title in May, defeating RIT.
SJC brief from Karen Read’s attorneys due Wednesday
The state’s highest court has agreed to hear Karen Read‘s appeal, and her lawyers are expected to file a brief outlining their case by Wednesday.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court agreed last week to review the case. Read’s lawyers are trying to get two of three charges against her dismissed, the major one being murder.
The court set a Sept. 25 deadline for Read’s defense team to file its brief on the case, and prosecutors have until Oct. 16 to file theirs. Defense lawyers will then have until Oct. 25 to respond to the prosecution’s filing. Oral arguments could start as soon as November.
Read’s legal team had filed an appeal last week of Judge Beverly Cannone’s refusal to dismiss two of the three criminal charges against her.
Read, 44, is accused of ramming into her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him for dead during a January 2022 snowstorm. Her two-month trial ended in July when jurors declared they were hopelessly deadlocked and a judge declared a mistrial on the fifth day of deliberations.
Last month, Cannone rejected a defense motion to dismiss several charges, and prosecutors scheduled a new trial for January 2025. But Read’s attorneys appealed that ruling to the Supreme Judicial Court, arguing that trying her again on two of the charges would amount to unconstitutional double jeopardy.
Prosecutors said Read, a former adjunct professor at Bentley College, and O’Keefe, a 16-year member of the Boston police, had been drinking heavily before she dropped him off at a party at the home of Brian Albert, a fellow Boston officer. They said she hit him with her SUV before driving away. An autopsy found O’Keefe died of hypothermia and blunt force trauma.
The defense portrayed Read as the victim, saying O’Keefe was actually killed inside Albert’s home and then dragged outside. They argued that investigators focused on Read because she was a “convenient outsider” who saved them from having to consider law enforcement officers as suspects.
After the mistrial, Read’s lawyers presented evidence that four jurors had said they were actually deadlocked only on a third count of manslaughter, and that inside the jury room, they had unanimously agreed that Read was innocent of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of a deadly accident. One juror told them that “no one thought she hit him on purpose,” her lawyers argued.
But the judge said the jurors didn’t tell the court during their deliberations that they had reached a verdict on any of the counts.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
State police suspend boxing training after recruit’s death; funeral set for Saturday
It’s been more than a week since we learned of the death of Massachusetts State Police recruit Enrique Delgado-Garcia, and now the agency is making changes to its training in the wake of the tragedy.
The 25-year-old Delgado-Garcia died a…
