The Supreme Court opted against hearing arguments in a pair of appeals Monday seeking to wipe out protest buffer zones around ...

Convicted murderer Philip Chism, who was sentenced to life in jail for the brutal rape and slay Danvers math teacher Collen ...

The man convicted of raping and killing a high school teacher in Danvers, Massachusetts, was denied a chance at a new trial ...

The new 49-page guide updates and supersedes the 2006-issued guidelines, and includes information about the 2016 ...

A Massachusetts school district's policy against notifying parents without a student's consent if the child asks to use a ...

Massachusetts' highest court has denied an effort by the defense to have two of the charges dropped in the controversial ...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has vacated Pedro Vasquez’s convictions of murder in the second degree and other charges following the racism allegations in the trial. “During jury ...

Karen Read's lawyers have argued since July that she should not be retried for 2nd degree murder. But justices on the state's highest court disagreed.

BOSTON (AP) — The state’s top court ruled Tuesday that Karen Read can be retried on all the same charges in the death of her ...

Aggrieved litigants can’t compel the Massachusetts attorney discipline board to give lawyers a slap on the wrist, the state’s Supreme Judicial Court held.