Michael Dukakis

(Associated Press) - Another college friend of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to three years in prison for lying to the FBI about being in Tsarnaev's UMass Dartmouth dorm room days after the 2013 attacks. Robel Phillipos was sentenced Friday, hours after Azamat Tazhayakov was given a 3 1/2-year sentence for impeding the investigation into the attack while authorities f

Retired Judge and Former District Attorney John Tierney died on Friday at the age of 83. His death was first reported by the Standard Times. Tierney was appointed Superior Court Judge in 1990 by then-Governor Michael Dukakis and he served 12 years on the bench...

€” Former Massachusetts governor, and one-time presidential candidate, Michael Dukakis testified for the defense in the Robel Phillipos trial. The friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber has been charged with lying to investigators after the attacks...

Former state attorney general and Massachusetts House Speaker Robert Quinn has died. He was 85.       Quinn's law partner James Morris said Quinn died after collapsing early Sunday morning at his Falmouth home.       Morris said Quinn had recently moved back into the two-family home where he was raised in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood.  ...