suicide

Two Massachusetts state troopers who investigated the death of a teenager prosecutors say was coaxed into killing himself through dozens of text messages from his girlfriend have testified the couple often discussed suicide. The prosecution in Michelle Carter's manslaughter trial rested Thursday after hearing from the troopers and a pathologist in juvenile court in Taunton...

TAUNTON (AP) — A friend of a Massachusetts woman charged with using text messages to encourage her boyfriend to kill himself said in court the woman told her, "It's my fault." Michelle Carter is charged with manslaughter in the July 2014 death of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III, who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in his pickup in Fairhaven...

TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Massachusetts woman charged with manslaughter for allegedly sending her boyfriend text messages encouraging him to kill himself wanted the sympathy and attention that came with being the "grieving girlfriend...

TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - The Massachusetts woman charged with manslaughter for sending her boyfriend text messages encouraging him to kill himself has waived her right to a jury trial. Michelle Carter's decision Monday as a judge was explaining her rights means the judge will hear the testimony and issue the verdict...

TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - Jury selection is set to begin in the trial of a Massachusetts woman accused of sending her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to kill himself. Michelle Carter is charged with manslaughter in the 2014 death of Conrad Roy III...

WESTPORT - A man is dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after a domestic disturbance in Westport. Westport Police responded to a home in the area of 1300 Main Road in the town just before 10 p.m. Saturday night. Upon arrival, a woman exited the home and told police that her husband had assaulted her with a firearm...

MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Manchester police say the man who set off an improvised explosive device at an Ariana Grande concert in northern England died in the attack. Police said Tuesday 22 people died in the attack Monday night. It wasn't clear if that included the suspected suicide bomber...

BOSTON (AP) - The fiancee of former NFL player Aaron Hernandez is speaking out publicly for the first time. A two-part interview with Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez is scheduled to air on the "Dr. Phil " show on Monday and Tuesday. In excerpts already released, Jenkins-Hernandez tells host Dr...

DARTMOUTH - Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson is defending his staff after a recent report showed that suicides among inmates in his department were more than double that of houses of correction in other Massachusetts counties. The report from WGBH says that since 2006, Bristol County has had 50% more suicides in their jails than Suffolk County, and more than twice as many as Essex and Worcest

TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - A judge has ruled that a Massachusetts woman charged with manslaughter for sending her boyfriend text messages encouraging him to take his own life can introduce medical records at trial that allegedly show he had been talking about suicide for years...