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A federal judge has released the names of the 12 jurors who sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death last year.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) _ A snowstorm has forced the postponement of a bail hearing for a man who was convicted of rape and spent 30 years in prison based in part on a single strand of hair. George Perrot was convicted of raping a 78-year-old woman in 1985...

BOSTON (AP) — A lawyer for a Massachusetts teen charged with manslaughter for allegedly encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself has asked a judge to put the case on hold. Michelle Carter's lawyer argued Tuesday in Taunton Juvenile Court that the criminal case shouldn't move forward until the state's highest court decides on an appeal of a judge's refusal to dismiss the manslaughter charge... Rea

BOSTON (AP) _ Lawyers for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have filed a notice of appeal. The notice filed Friday with the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals does not give any grounds for appeal. Those will be spelled out at a future date...

An arrest warrant has been issued for a New Bedford woman who failed to show up during the last day of her criminal trial. Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn's office says 27-year-old Caroline Peraza Rivera, formerly of 80 Earle Street, was on trial for multiple weapons charges and a charge of larceny and receiving stolen property in relation to a June 4 shots fired incident on Ashley S

Opening statements were made Friday in the murder trial of two New Bedford men. 31-Year-old Sharone Stafford was shot and killed in November of 2013. According to The Standard Times, prosecutors say Stafford was targeted by rival drug dealers...

The trial has begun for 38-year-old Joshua Silva, the man accused of killing a former Fairhaven school teacher.

NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge put the NFL on the defensive over its four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady on Wednesday, demanding to know what evidence directly links Brady to deflating footballs and belittling the drama of the controversy.

FALL RIVER (AP) - An anonymous tipster who raised questions about a juror in the murder trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez had a sexually explicit relationship with him, a prosecutor said in a filing released Monday.

(AP) — A lawyer for Aaron Hernandez says he's concerned one of the jurors who convicted the former New England Patriots player of murder may have been "untruthful" during jury selection.