Public defenders are vowing to continue a push on Beacon Hill for better wages after Gov. Maura Healey signed off on a pay ...

In 2006, Ari Shapiro reported on how Hurricane Katrina made an already broken public defender system in New Orleans worse.

The Milwaukee man sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing and dismembering Sade Robinson ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, urged a federal judge Tuesday to reject the ...

CPCS employees, including public defenders and social workers, are pushing for unionization, citing pay and retention issues.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has approved a $20 hourly pay raise for public defenders in an effort to end their ongoing ...

The Ballbarians are back on top. In a dominant 10-1 championship game performance, the Ballbarians took down the No. 1 seed, ...

The third week of the Stearns Wharf murder trial ended on Wednesday with closing arguments from the prosecution and the defense before the jury began its ...

Shipwreck explorer Joe Mazraani, 48, died during a deep-sea dive off the Massachusetts coast, as the investigation into his death continues.

People who complete the state’s Recovery Court program can fully erase their criminal and juvenile records — even for serious ...

The man drew the attention of security officers soon after arriving at 5 a.m. and asking what time flights would begin to arrive, court documents say.