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UPDATE:  The trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev is set to begin next Wednesday. A court official said that opening statements will take place in Boston on March 4th. Tsarnaev is charged with killing three people and injuring 264 others in the April 15th, 2013 attack...

Here's a release from the FBI: Two Boston-area hedge fund managers pleaded guilty today to conspiring to mislead investors into investing more than $500 million in their fraudulent hedge fund business. Gabriel Bitran, 69, of Newton, a former professor and associate dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Business, and his son Marco Bitran, 39, of Brookline, a Harvar

A task force examining the state's gun laws says Massachusetts should require background checks for most private firearms sales, increase penalties for failing to report lost or stolen guns and tighten regulations on rifle ownership.       The panel created by House Speaker Robert DeLeo in the aftermath of the school massacre in Newtown, Conn...

Police in Connecticut have released thousands of pages of documents from the investigation into last year's school massacre in Newtown.       The Friday afternoon release could shed additional light on the world of the 20-year-old gunman, Adam Lanza.  ...

State police in Connecticut today are releasing thousands of pages of police documents from the investigation into last year's school massacre in Newtown, and the documents could shed additional light on the world of the 20-year-old gunman...

Bells tolled 26 times to honor the children and educators killed one year ago in a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School as local churches held memorial services Saturday and President Barack Obama observed a moment of silence...

The plea was simple and heart wrenching. "Please respect our need to be alone and to be quiet and to have that personal time to continue on our journey of grief in a way that serves us." The words of the town's mayor, Pat Llodra. In an unprecedented decision, CNN is among the news organizations that will respect the wishes of the parents...

Back off.  That's the request from officials in Newtown, Connecticut as the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting approaches. School and city leaders hosted a meeting today and asked the press to keep their distance to allow the community to remember the victims of the horrific shooting massacre. ...

Recordings of 911 calls from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting show town dispatchers calmly responding to a janitor, a teacher and others and assuring them help is coming.       The operators urge the people inside the school to take cover as they reach out to town officials and state police for help. The...

. There's a plan in place for the release of 911 tapes from Sandy Hook Elementary School on Wednesday as ordered by a judge last week.  Officials in Newtown, Connecticut, say the recordings of Newtown police department dispatches will be released to members of the media through the town attorney's office that afternoon...