Massachusetts Conflict & Tragedy News

A 49-year-old man suffered a severed finger in a wood-cutting accident yesterday morning, a fire department official said, reports the Cape Cod Times . The man, who fire officials declined to identify, was using a hydraulic log splitter at about...

A sales clerk at a JCPenney department store in Sturbridge is being held on $25,000 cash bail after being charged with the dressing-room rape of a young boy, authorities said. Francisco Wellington Barros-Gomes, 26, of Charlton allegedly offered to bring...

Police at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst are investigating an alleged sexual assault in the main campus library. Police said today that the assault allegedly occurred a day earlier in the women’s bathroom on the 19th floor of the...

A n umbrella-wielding valet and out-of-work landscaper didn’t hesitate, jumping into the fray to chase down an alleged armed carjacker after an attack on a 61-year-old woman late Monday outside a downtown luxury condo complex.

A suspected drug dealer is accused of attacking another man outside the Wareham Elks on Cranberry Highway over the weekend, reports the New Bedford Standard Times . Joshua Franklin, 19, of 172 Lake Ave., Wareham, and the victim had an...

U.S. federal prosecutors have charged two men with providing material support to terrorists and other crimes, including conspiracy to kill in a foreign country and lying to law enforcement officers. Additional charges were made against Tarek Mehanna, 27, of Sudbury,...

J oseph Cousin, a reputed city gang member, was found guilty this afternoon of the second-degree murder of a 10-year-old girl cut down in the crossfire. The June 29, 2002, murder of Trina Persad was the brutal byproduct of a...