A Salem, Massachusetts, man has been convicted of first-degree murder for the 1971 stabbing death of a woman inside her Bedford home.
Arthur Massei, 78, was arrested in March 2022, more than 50 years after the death of Natalie Scheublin, according…
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New details on 2 people killed by MBTA commuter train in Natick
Investigators believe two people killed by an MBTA Commuter Rail train Monday in Natick, Massachusetts, were dating, authorities said, sharing some new information Tuesday on what led to their deaths.
One of the people appeared to be trying to get the other off the tracks before they were struck and killed by the train, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office. They didn’t suspect any foul play.
The couple has not been publicly identified, but officials said they were a 65-year-old woman and a 59-year-old man.
Their deaths were reported about 6 p.m. The train had been traveling from Worcester to Boston.
Earlier, witnesses had seen the woman near the tracks and went down to help her, then spotted the man trying to help her away from the tracks, prosecutors said. The witnesses started to leave, and moments later, the man and woman were hit by the train.
Investigators from state, local and transit police were looking into whether the couple had been seen in the area before.
They didn’t say Tuesday what the couple were believed to have been doing in the area.
On Monday, Transit Police Department Supt. Richard Sullivan confirmed the victims were pronounced dead on scene as a result of their injuries.
Aerial footage showed a bicycle laying off to the side of the tracks, as well as officials on scene with evidence markers littering the ground.
Trains on the Framingham/Worcester Line were canceled and delayed after the incident.
Military hearing officer deciding whether to recommend court-martial for Pentagon leaker
A Massachusetts Air National Guard member who pleaded guilty in March to federal crimes for leaking highly classified military documents appeared Tuesday before a military hearing officer who will recommend whether the guardsman should face a court-martial.
Jack Teixeira, of Dighton, Massachusetts, is facing three charges in the military justice system: one alleging he failed to obey a lawful order and two counts of obstructing justice.
Capt. Stephanie Evans said at Tuesday’s hearing that a court-martial was appropriate given that obeying orders “is at the absolute core of everything we do in the U.S. military” and that Texeira acted with “malicious intent to cover his tracks.” But one of Teixeira’s attorneys, Lt. Col. Bradley Poronsky, argued that further action would amount to prosecuting him twice for the same offense.
Teixeira was arrested just over a year ago in the most consequential national security leak in years. He pleaded guilty on March 4 to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under a deal with prosecutors that calls for him to serve at least 11 years in prison.
Referring to that agreement, Poronosky said the government has now taken its “big feast of evidence” from the criminal courthouse and walked it “down the street here to Hanscom Air Force Base to get their own pound of flesh.”
Dressed in military uniform, Teixeira did not speak at the hearing other than to indicate he understood the proceedings, and family members in attendance declined to comment. In court, he admitted to illegally collecting some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets and sharing them with other users on Discord, a social media platform popular with online gamers.
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.
On Tuesday, military prosecutors sought to include evidence they said showed Teixeira used Discord to ask others to delete his messages as the basis for one of the obstruction of justice charges. But his attorneys objected, saying they wanted the raw data that purportedly connected Teixeira to the messages.
“The government wants you to take a leap of logic and connect the dots when there are no dots,” Poronsky said.
The hearing officer, Lt. Col. Michael Raiming, initially agreed. He said he wouldn’t consider the documents in making his recommendation, but later said he would consider an amended version submitted by prosecutors. Raiming’s recommendations, to be issued at a later date, will be sent to Maj. Gen. Daniel DeVoe, who will decide whether the case should continue.
Until both sides made brief closing statements, the three-hour hearing shed little light on the case as neither Teixeira’s attorneys nor military prosecutors called any witnesses. Instead, they spent the bulk of the three-hour hearing discussing objections raised by Teixeira’s lawyers to some of the documents prosecutors submitted as evidence.
The military charges accuse Teixeira of disobeying orders to stop accessing sensitive documents. The obstruction of justice charges allege that he disposed of an iPad, computer hard drive and iPhone, and instructed others to delete his messages on Discord before his arrest.
“His actions to conceal and destroy messages became egregious,” Evans said.
Authorities in the criminal case said Teixeira first typed out classified documents he accessed and then began sharing photographs of files that bore SECRET and TOP SECRET markings. 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.
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 the diplomatic and military fallout. The leaks embarrassed the Pentagon, which tightened controls to safeguard classified information and disciplined members it found had intentionally failed to take required action about Teixeira’s suspicious behavior.
Woman accused of hitting boyfriend with vehicle, kicking bystander who tried to help
A woman is accused of purposely hitting her boyfriend with a car and then attacking a bystander who tried to help the man as he bled from the head in Auburn, Massachusetts, police said Tuesday.
Angela Phaneuf is facing charges including assault an…
Authorities identify 16-year-old killed in shooting at Northborough house party
Police continue to investigate the death of a teen who was shot and killed at a large Northborough, Massachusetts, house party over the weekend.
Ygor Correia, 16, of Bellingham, was shot during a large party at a home on Howard Street early Sunday …
Worker injured after falling into hole at construction site in Concord, Mass.
A worker was injured after falling into a hole at a home that is being demolished in Concord, Massachusetts, on Tuesday morning.
Concord fire officials said they received a call around 11:20 a.m. Tuesday to an address on Bruce Road for a report of …
