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New details are expected to be released Thursday in a nearly 35-year-old unsolved Warwick, Massachusetts, homicide, the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office said.

The district attorney’s office will provide an update at a press conference at 10 a.m. Thursday.

While authorities didn’t release additional details about the case, District Attorney David Sullivan said it has to do with the discovery of human remains in Warwick back in 1989.

Warwick is a town of about 800 residents and is located along the New Hampshire border in the northwestern part of the state.

According to the Greenfield Reporter, the dismembered remains of a woman was found on June 24, 1989, on the side of Route 78 near the entrance to Mount Grace State Forest. The body was found by a passerby and was believed to have been there between two and three months.

The woman’s identity and that of her killer have remained unknown, but the district attorney’s office and state police have been working with a forensic genealogy company to solve the case.

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Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges for leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine and other national security secrets, will face a military justice proceeding later this month, officials said Wednesday.

Teixeira, of North Dighton, Massachusetts, faces two charges in the military justice system, including obstructing justice and failing to obey a lawful order, Air Force officials said. Prosecutors will present evidence during the military proceeding on May 14 at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts. The case could then move to a court-martial, if it’s determined that there’s sufficient evidence of the charges.

The military proceeding comes nearly two months after Teixeira pleaded guilty in federal court to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act. That was close to a year after he was arrested in the most consequential national security leak in years.

In court, he admitted illegally collecting some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets and sharing them with other users on Discord, a social media platform popular with people playing online games.

Teixeira, who was part of the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts, worked as a cyber transport systems specialist, essentially an information technology specialist responsible for military communications networks.

A spokesperson for Teixeira’s family said they had no comment Wednesday and his attorneys in his criminal case didn’t immediately respond to an email.

The stunning security breach raised alarm over America’s ability to protect its most closely guarded secrets and forced the Biden administration to scramble to try to contain diplomatic and military fallout. The leaks embarrassed the Pentagon, which tightened controls to safeguard classified information and disciplined members found to have intentionally failed to take required action about Teixeira’s suspicious behavior.

Authorities said he first typed out classified documents he accessed and then began sharing photographs of files that bore SECRET and TOP SECRET markings. Prosecutors also said he tried to cover his tracks before his arrest, and authorities found a smashed tablet, laptop and Xbox gaming console in a dumpster at his house.

The leak exposed to the world unvarnished secret assessments of Russia’s war in Ukraine, including information about troop movements in Ukraine and the provision of supplies and equipment to Ukrainian troops. Teixeira also admitted posting information about a U.S. adversary’s plans to harm U.S. forces serving overseas.

Associated Press writers Alanna Durkin Richer and Michael Balsamo contributed to this report.

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The second man arrested in connection with a violent shooting last year in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood is due in court Thursday.

Micah Ennis, 25, was arrested in Roxbury on Wednesday, Boston police said.

He’s accused of shooting five people, including two children, at a housing complex on Ames Street on Sept. 17. The children were playing outside their home when they were shot.

All five victims have since recovered.

Ennis is charged with five counts of armed assault to murder, as well as unlawful firearm possession. It was not immediately clear if he had an attorney.

Gianni Johnson of Dorchester was arrested on similar charges days after the shooting. He also faces a charge of unlawful possession of a machine gun.

Ennis will be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court Thursday.

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The wake for the Billerica police Sgt. Ian Taylor, who was killed last week in a crash while working on a construction detail, is set for Thursday.

Visitation will be held from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Cataudella Funeral Home on Pleasant Valley Street in Methuen, Massachusetts.

A funeral service is scheduled for 11 a.m. Friday at the St. Patrick Church on South Broadway in Lawrence.

Taylor, 49, died Friday when he was hit by an excavator that was moving equipment at the intersection of Boston Road at Pollard Street in Billerica.

He leaves behind a wife and two children.

Taylor worked as a police officer for 21 years and has been with the Billerica Police Department since 2011.

He was a member of the Substance Abuse Prevention Committee, making weekly visits to speak to those suffering from opiate addiction, trying to find ways to help.

Taylor served in Lawrence prior to joining the Billerica Police Department.

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