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Prosecutors say Richard Philippe, a convicted felon, purchased dozens of guns in Georgia, then transported them to a warehouse in Taunton where he sold them for cash.

A Jamaican citizen living in Fall River will be sentenced December 20th after pleading guilty in Federal Court to passport fraud, two counts of theft of public money and misrepresenting a Social Security number. The U-S Attorney's office says 51 year old Sandra McDonald entered the country in 1990, obtaining an alien card and Social Security number, using her sister's name...

Almost two years after the Boston Marathon bombing, the trial of suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev is set to begin. Opening statements are scheduled for Wednesday in a federal courtroom in Boston. Ultimately, 12 jurors will decide the fate of Tsarnaev, who faces the death penalty on over half of the 30 counts against him...

A Dartmouth contractor pleads guilty to filing a false tax return.  The U.S. Attorney's Office says 57-year old Gerald Sicard appeared this week in U.S. Federal Court in Boston, and admitted under-reporting his income in 2007 by more than $300,000...

 A federal court has accepted a $366 million settlement to remove PCB's from New Bedford Harbor.   Attorney General Martha Coakley said Wednesday that she's pleased the United States District Court has accepted the settlement.   Coakley called the ruling ``an important step for the economic development of the harbor'' which will provide ``significant public health benefits for the community ... Re

Court records show defense costs for convicted Boston mobster James ``Whitey'' Bulger totaled $2.6 million through June.       The accounting filed Friday includes mostly attorney fees and about $17,000 other expenses.       Bulger was convicted Aug...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will make his first public court appearance Wednesday to be arraigned on charges connected to the Boston Marathon bombing in April.

James ``Whitey'' Bulger and his once-loyal right-hand man have had an angry, profanity-laced exchange in court during Bulger's racketeering trial in Boston.       Tensions exploded Tuesday after Kevin Weeks called Bulger and his partner, Stephen ``The Rifleman'' Flemmi, ``the biggest rats,'' referring to their work as FBI informants...

A federal judge has rescheduled a probable cause hearing for surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev .      U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler on Thursday scheduled the hearing for July 10.       Bowler earlier this week granted a joint request from prosecutors and defense attorneys to postpone the hearing originally scheduled for May 30 until July 2...

A judge has agreed to postpone a probable cause hearing for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.       U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler on Tuesday granted a joint request from prosecutors and defense attorneys to postpone the May 30 hearing until July 2. The...