Massachusetts drops Kevin Spacey sex assault case after alleged victim refuses to testify
Massachusetts prosecutors on Wednesday dropped a criminal case accusing former "House of Cards" star Kevin Spacey of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old man at a Nantucket bar in 2016 after the alleged victim refused to testify. Prosecutors said they made the decision to drop the felony ...
U.S. top court rules Exxon must hand over papers to aid probe into what it knew about climate change
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for Massachusetts' attorney general to obtain records from Exxon Mobil Corp. to probe whether the oil company for decades concealed its knowledge of the role fossil fuels play in climate change. The justices declined to hear ...
Hiroshima hibakusha attends Massachusetts memorial ceremony for U.S. POWs killed in A-bombing
An atomic bomb survivor attended a memorial ceremony Monday to honor the 12 American servicemen who died in the U.S. nuclear attack in the closing days of World War II. Hibakusha Shigeaki Mori, an 81-year-old historian, spent years researching and identifying the 12 American soldiers ...
Massachusetts top court rules stun gun ban violates Second Amendment
The top court in Massachusetts on Tuesday struck down a state law that banned civilians from possessing stun guns, saying the law violated the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment, which protects Americans' right to bear arms. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in the case of ...
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed Exxon Mobil Corp's lawsuit seeking to stop New York and Massachusetts from probing whether the company misled investors and the public about climate change and the potential effects on its business. U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan said ...
Federal prosecutors in Boston on Thursday charged a Massachusetts man with sending a series of threatening letters containing a suspicious powder, including one addressed to U.S. President Donald Trump's eldest son. The letter addressed to Donald Trump Jr. led to the Republican president's daughter-in-law, Vanessa ...
Massachusetts mall stabbing spree leads to lockdown, evacuation
Several people were stabbed at a shopping mall outside Boston on Tuesday evening, authorities said, in what police described as an "active scene." The Taunton Police Department said on Twitter it was investigating "multiple stabbings" at the Silver City Galleria mall and on a nearby ...
Massachusetts creator of iconic pink lawn flamingo dies at 79
The Massachusetts man who invented the plastic pink flamingo lawn ornament, which went from a 1960s craze to a kitsch icon, died this week aged 79, his widow said on Tuesday. Donald Featherstone was just out of art school in 1957 when a plastics company ...
Boston Marathon bomber Tsarnaev sentenced to death for 2013 attack
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death by a jury on Friday for helping carry out the 2013 attack, which killed three people and wounded 264 in the crowds at the race's finish line. After deliberating for 15 hours, the federal jury chose ...
Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence seen more as symbolic judgment
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhohkar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death Friday. But his execution may not happen for decades — if ever. A lengthy appellate process, an effective moratorium on federal executions and declining support among Americans for capital punishment all suggest that Tsarnaev's death by ...
An unpublished photo of a man who could be Nakahama Manjiro (1827-1898), the first Japanese known to have lived in the United States, has been found at a public library in Massachusetts. Nakahama, better known as John Manjiro, lived and studied in America after he ...
Ex-NFL star Hernandez gets life term without parole for 2013 slaying, faces trial for two more
Former National Football League star Aaron Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for murdering an acquaintance in an industrial park near his Massachusetts home, concluding the first of two murder trials he faces this year. A Massachusetts jury found Hernandez, 25, guilty ...
