Federal Court

A Federal Court jury has found Dartmouth Selectboard member John George guilty of conspiracy and embezzlement. The news was first reported by the Standard Times. The ten-day trial included testimony from George on Wednesday, who denied doing anything wrong...

A note written by Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as he hid inside a boat contained themes of global jihad similar to those found in extremist materials on his computer, a terrorism expert testified Monday at his federal death penalty trial...

There's more gut-wrenching testimony from Boston Marathon bombing survivors at the trial of suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev . Before day two of testimony wrapped up, a father told the court how he left his dying son behind with his wife so he could rush their two other children to the hospital...

There is not going to be a delay in jury selection for the federal trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev . The trial judge has ruled it will start as scheduled on Monday because a delay would be too inconvenient for the 12-hundred prospective jurors...

A federal judge has denied requests by lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) to move his trial out of state and to delay its start. U.S. District Court Judge George O'Toole Jr. issued his denials Wednesday and said explanations will be issued later in the day...

Lawyers for the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect are asking a federal judge to delay his trial until September. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is scheduled to go on trial Jan. 5 on multiple charges. He could face the death penalty if convicted...

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has not been seen in public since he was arraigned on 30 federal charges in July 2013, when he still bore signs of the bloody standoff with police that led to his capture and the death of his older brother, Tamerlan...

Lawyers for a man who confessed to carjacking and killing two men in Massachusetts and killing a third man in New Hampshire have argued that the federal government should not force the death penalty on Massachusetts, a state that has rejected capital punishment...

Jurors in the federal trial of a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev  have ended a fifth day of deliberations without reaching a verdict. Robel Phillipos is accused of lying about being in Tsarnaev's UMass Dartmouth dorm room three days after the deadly bombing, when two other friends removed a backpack containing fireworks and other potential evidence...

A lawyer for a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told jurors the man didn't lie to the FBI during the bombing investigation but couldn't remember certain details because he had smoked marijuana "for 12 hours straight...