Sean Philip Cotter
Boston Herald
Mountain View, CA, United States
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No bail in murder of Boston 13-year-old
They say they don’t know why he did it — just that he pulled the trigger, ending a 13-year-old boy’s life. → Read More
Boston administration official on leave following prison money-laundering charges
A Wu office official is on unpaid leave after she’s charged with money laundering, authorities say. → Read More
Royals visit to Boston cost city $170,000
Prince William’s and Princess Kate’s three-day visit to the Hub in November and December cost the city a total bill of $170,407.52, which largely went to police overtime. → Read More
Boston Latin Academy inadvertently posted student personal info, BPS says
The Boston Public School District is apologizing and saying everything’s under control after Boston Latin Academy accidentally emailed out some personal student data. → Read More
How Boston pieced together the Lego headquarters move
Lego’s piecing together a move to Boston, as the building-toy giant will switch its western-hemisphere headquarters from Connecticut to the Hub in the coming years. → Read More
Boston to study converting downtown office space to residential
Want to live in a skyscraper? Your lofty dreams might be a step closer after the city's planning agency agreed to spend $100,000 to take a look at converting downtown office space to residential uses. → Read More
Boston man tried to hire undercover FBI agent to kill wife and her boyfriend, prosecutors say
One Hub resident is charged in a murder-for-hire plot after authorities say it turned out that the man he met up with at a Dorchester pizza place to try to hire to rub out his wife and her guy on the side for $4,000 a pop was a federal agent. → Read More
Ana Walshe murder: Husband charged in Cohasset slay even though body remains elusive, recalling old local cases
Brian Walshe is now set to be charged with the murder of his wife, Ana, in the high-profile missing-persons case out of Cohasset in a turn that comes even as her body hasn’t been found — though there’s precedent out of the local DA’s office for such a prosecution to work. → Read More
Timeline of Ana Walshe Cohasset disappearance case
Nearly each day of the new year has brought a fresh twist in the strange disappearance of Cohasset woman Ana Walshe. → Read More
Blood found in basement of Cohasset missing woman Ana Walshe, prosecutors say
The husband of the Cohasset mother who suddenly vanished misled the cops about going to Home Depot to buy $450 of cleaning supplies, and investigators found a bloody knife in their home, authorities said. → Read More
Blood found in basement of Cohasset missing woman Ana Walshe, prosecutors say
Cops have found blood and a bloody knife in the basement of missing Cohasset mother Ana Walshe's house, and police say her art-fraudster husband misled officers about going to Home Depot to buy $450 of cleaning supplies the day after she vanished. → Read More
What ever happened to that new East Boston police station?
The $30 million East Boston Police Station, the first brand-new city cop house commissioned in a decade, still sits empty now more than a year after it was originally supposed to be finished, with everything from the soil underneath the swanky police digs to the fish trucks around it and its fire-safety systems inside seeming to get in its way. → Read More
Boston schools move for ‘temporary masking’ — but not mandate
Boston Public Schools is not reimplementing a mask mandate, but is asking people to cover up. → Read More
Rachael Rollins on first year, her own investigations and priorities
U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins said she wants to keep a focus on beefing up anti-human-trafficking efforts — and hopes the investigations into her political actions don't slow the office down. → Read More
Man charged following aborted 12th-floor plunge from Boston apartment with corpse, DA says
One man is facing charges after someone attempted to hurl himself out of a 12th story apartment in which one person lay dead, according to authorities. → Read More
Man charged following aborted 12th-floor plunge from Boston apartment with corpse, DA says
Man charged following aborted 12th floor plunge from Boston apartment with corpse, DA says → Read More
DOJ hammers handling of Whitey Bulger leading up to killing [+read report]
A Department of Justice probe into notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger's death identified "serious deficiencies" in the prison-transfer process, with evidence that various inmates knew the ailing crime boss was en route to a West Virginia lock-up before someone eventually whacked him after he showed up. → Read More
‘Many unanswered questions’ remain about babies found frozen in Boston
Two week after the ghastly discovery of the frozen remains of two male and two female infants, the identities of the babies and how they ended up in a freezer remain out of reach. → Read More
DOJ hammers handling of Whitey Bulger leading up to killing [+read report]
A Department of Justice probe into notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger's death identified "serious deficiencies" in the prison-transfer process, with evidence that various inmates knew the ailing crime boss was en route to a West Virginia lock-up before someone eventually whacked him after he showed up. → Read More
Weeks later, ‘many unanswered questions’ remain about babies found frozen in Boston condo
Weeks after the ghastly discovery of the frozen remains of two male and two female infants in a South Boston condominium, the identities of the babies and information about how they ended up in a freezer remain out of reach. Police reports are sparse and search warrants remain under seal as rumors fly. → Read More