Federal Court

An Oak Bluffs man entered a guilty plea over charges that he falsified his tax return and stole $160,025 in Social Security benefits.

The FBI has made an arrest in connection with the theft of 16 guns from a Massachusetts Army Reserve armory. According to an FBI affidavit, James Morales was arrested in New York on Wednesday. Six M4 rifles and 10 Sig Sauer M11 handguns were stolen from the Lincoln Army Reserve Center in Worcester last weekend...

(Associated Press) - A former Massachusetts defense attorney, disbarred 13 years ago for bribing a witness, has agreed to plead guilty to running a multi-million dollar, cross-country marijuana ring. The Herald News reports that Edward Boyer signed the plea agreement Monday in federal court in Boston...

A forfeiture hearing is being held Thursday in Boston Federal Court on the U.S. Attorney's efforts to seize $1.38 million dollars in assets from former Dartmouth Select Board member John George. George was found guilty in April of embezzling money from the Southeast Regional Transit Authority, while serving as President of the Union Street Bus Company...

NEW YORK (AP) - The federal judge handling Tom Brady's attempt to overturn his four-game suspension strongly suggested the New England quarterback and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell appear in court on Aug. 12 and 19.

A federal jury has found in a civil lawsuit that a Massachusetts State Police Trooper used excessive force and engaged in malicious prosecution against a Massachusetts woman even though he had probable cause to arrest her for traffic violations...

The son of a Boston Police Captain arrested for an alleged ISIS terror plot will be held in jail without bond. Alexander Ciccolo appeared in Federal Court in Springfield, Massachusetts on Tuesday, following his July 4th arrest in connection with the alleged plot to detonate explosives at large gatherings...

Washington Redskins GM Bruce Allen is responding to today's ruling that upholds a cancellation of the team's trademark. Allen says, "We look forward to winning on appeal after a fair and impartial review of the case." He went on to say, "We are convinced that we will win because the facts and law are on the side of our franchise...

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has filed a motion for a new trial, less than two weeks after he was formally sentenced to death for the 2013 attack. Tsarnaev's lawyers filed a preliminary motion for a new trial Monday for his conviction and death sentence...

Death penalty opponents are renewing their calls for mercy as the federal trial of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev enters the penalty phase. More than a dozen protesters held signs outside the courthouse Tuesday. Sister Jane Morrissey, of the Sisters of St...