The man convicted of raping and killing a high school teacher in Danvers, Massachusetts, was denied a chance at a new trial ...

Convicted murderer Philip Chism, who was sentenced to life in jail for the brutal rape and slay Danvers math teacher Collen ...

Philip Chism, convicted of killing Danvers teacher Colleen Ritzer, will not get a new murder trial or be resentenced.

The Massachusetts House of Representatives adopted a new set of rules to govern how they conduct their daily business after ...

Aggrieved litigants can’t compel the Massachusetts attorney discipline board to give lawyers a slap on the wrist, the state’s Supreme Judicial Court held.

Philip Chism was convicted in the 2013 death of Danvers High School teacher Colleen Ritzer. He was 14 when he followed Ritzer into a school bathroom, strangled her, stabbed her at least 16 times and ...

The new 49-page guide updates and supersedes the 2006-issued guidelines, and includes information about the 2016 ...

At the current rate, it will take years before all of the Plaintiffs have had their initial parole hearings," according to ...

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Suffolk County Superior Court, cites a state Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) decision that declared it unconstitutional for judges to sentence anyone younger than 21 to life ...

A Massachusetts school district's policy against notifying parents without a student's consent if the child asks to use a ...

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Monday passed on ... a 35-foot protest-free zone outside abortion clinics in Massachusetts. But the court slammed the 2000 ruling when overturning Roe v.