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Massachusetts State Police troopers arraigned over recruit's death in boxing match

A supervisor and two instructors with a Massachusetts State Police tactical unit have been arraigned in connection with the 2024 death of a recruit following a boxing match during training

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Four Massachusetts State Police officials indicted in connection to recruit's death in training

A supervisor and three instructors with a Massachusetts State Police tactical unit have been indicted in connection with the death of a recruit following a boxing match in training

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Judge holds ICE agent in contempt for detaining suspect in the middle of his trial

‘I can't think of any greater injustice than a man who is taken away from his trial in the middle of it by the government,’ Wilson Martell-Lebron’s defense attorney tells The Independent

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State police recruit's death in Massachusetts overshadows graduation ceremony

Friends and family of a state police recruit who died during training protested outside their graduation ceremony, demand to know how he died

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State Police Recruit Honored After Tragic Training Exercise Death

Tragic passing of state police recruit prompts investigation and safety concerns at Massachusetts State Police Academy.

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Large police presence at funeral for Massachusetts recruit who died during training exercise

A large law enforcement presence has turned out in Worcester to honor a state police recruit who died after becoming unresponsive during a training exercise

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Illegal Immigrant Arrested In Massachusetts For Drug Trafficking Charges

ICE apprehends Colombian fugitive in Massachusetts for drug trafficking charges, highlighting challenges in disclosing identity.

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Karen Read investigator now suspended without pay after being relieved of duty for inappropriate texts

Investigator called texts dehumanizing, but said he stands by police work in Karen Read case

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Trooper who sent inappropriate texts about Karen Read is relieved of his duties after mistrial

Michael Proctor admitted to sending texts calling Karen Read a ‘whack-job c***’ and ‘re****ed’ during the investigation

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Cities Crack Down On Dangerous Food Delivery Scooters

The rise in fast food delivery has led to safety concerns with two-wheeled delivery vehicles in major cities, prompting crackdowns and collaboration betwee...

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Fugitive dubbed the ‘Bad Breath Rapist’ captured after 17 years on the run

Tuen Kit Lee was tracked down to a multi-million dollar address in California, where he was living with a female companion who police say was unaware of his crime

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‘He was laughing the whole time’: Suspect goes on stabbing spree including four girls at AMC theater and McDonald’s

The suspect allegedly entered a theater and unprovokingly stabbed four young girls while laughing throughout the attack

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Protesters Arrested At Massachusetts Airport For Climate Activism

Protesters arrested at Hanscom Field Airport for opposing private jet hangar expansion by Extinction Rebellion. Environmental concerns raised amid record-b...

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How a pregnant woman riding the bus lost her baby in the latest shocking act of gun violence in US

Multiple arrests have been made in shooting in Holyoke, Massachusetts, writes Josh Marcus

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Flight attendant removed from American Airlines plane after teen discovered ‘hidden camera’

An officer with the police unit that responded to the incident said it involved ‘a juvenile, a phone, and a flight attendant’

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Tafari Campbell’s death labelled ‘not suspicious’ as police say he was not tethered to paddleboard

‘He was not wearing a personal flotation device and was not leashed to the paddleboard,’ Massachusetts State Police said

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Missing boy, 4, found dead after search in South Boston

Mohamed Fofana disappeared from a park near the south Boston shoreline on Sunday evening

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Boston council members decry ‘dismissive treatment’ by police investigating disappearance of Hispanic woman

The Boston Police Department publicly announced an investigation two months after Reina Morales Rojas, 41, went missing on 26 November

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Ana Walshe vanished on New Years. Now her fraudster husband is facing a murder charge. What happened?

A week after Massachusetts mother Ana Walshe vanished, her husband Brian was arrested for hindering the police investigation. Investigators discovered weapons and blood, and a troubling internet search history, and he has been charged with murder. Graeme Massie reports

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Ana Walshe vanished on New Years. Now her fraudster husband is facing charges. What happened?

A week after Massachusetts mother Ana Walshe vanished, her husband Brian was arrested for hindering the police investigation. Now, investigators have discovered weapons and blood in their search. Graeme Massie reports

The Independent UK

Lady of the Dunes’ late husband has been linked to two other deaths - now his friend speaks out

When the ‘Lady of the Dunes’ was identified last year, after almost half a century, as Tennessee woman Ruth Marie Terry, suspicion quickly centred on the man she’d married shortly before her death. The revelation, along with further details about his questionable past, left a family friend ‘speechless’ – and…

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Cops seek info about Lady of the Dunes’ late husband, a suspect in another wife’s death

Lady of the Dunes victim Ruth Marie Terry married a man months before she died. He had been a murder suspect

Boston Herald

Massachusetts State Police K9 Frankie shot and killed at standoff, the 1st MSP canine killed in the line of duty

BOSTON — A Mass State Police K9 was shot and killed at a standoff in Fitchburg Tuesday afternoon, a “heartbreaking” loss as Frankie became the first MSP canine to be killed in the line of duty.

Boston Herald

Massachusetts State Police fired over vaccine mandate to lose guns, too

BOSTON — The head of the Massachusetts State Police has informed troopers fired for failing to get COVID shots that their permits to carry firearms will be “expired” as of next week.

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Prisoner in Massachusetts State Police custody dies in his cell

BOSTON — A New Hampshire man died in the custody of Massachusetts State Police hours after being arrested.

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