A Brockton man convicted of killing another man in a 2013 shooting will not be getting a new trial after the state Appeals Court affirmed his convictions on Monday.
A Massachusetts appeals court has ruled in favor of the City of Taunton in a wrongful death case brought by the family of a fatal stabbing victim.
The civil case had claimed that a slow and negligent response by first responders caused the wrongful death of Patricia Slavin, 80, who was fatally stabbed in her Myricks Street home in May of 2016...
This is in no way an insult to grandfathers or paternal elders, but until this week, I had absolutely no idea that the term "grandfather clause" had its origins in Jim Crow laws that in part were created to keep Black Americans from voting...