Laura Crimaldi
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Winthrop, MA, United States
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Csean Skerritt, 34, who allegedly shot 13-year-old Tyler Lawrence to death in Mattapan, ordered held
Csean Alexander Skerritt, 34, the alleged shooter of 13-year-old Tyler Lawrence, is scheduled for arraignment on a murder charge in Suffolk Superior Court today. → Read More
Legal clinic in Somerville offers free aid to help people clear their records of marijuana crimes
The program, called Changing Legacies, offered free legal assistance to people who hope the easing of marijuana laws have made them eligible to expunge state marijuana offenses from their criminal records or seal them from public view. → Read More
Man accused of fatally shooting Tyler Lawrence had ‘no connection’ to the 13-year-old, DA says
“I can’t, for the love of God, cannot imagine what would allow a 34-year-old man with evil intent to decide to shoot a 13-year-old boy five times at 11:30 on a Sunday morning, steps away from churches," Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden said. → Read More
Lindsay Clancy: plotting killer or consumed by illness? Dueling portraits of Duxbury mother will test justice system
Prosecutors have aggressively sought to portray Clancy as a plotting killer who painstakingly planned the murder of her three children, while those who know her have described her as a devoted mother dogged in her pursuit of treatment for mental health issues. → Read More
Woburn wants teachers union to pay $250,000 in costs to end strike
During a news conference in his office, Woburn Scott Galvin said the city spent more than $270,000 to cover necessary costs during the illegal work stoppage and wants the Woburn Teachers’ Association to pay back $250,000 of that sum. → Read More
Roxbury Community College names 50 ‘pioneers’ to celebrate 50th anniversary
The pioneers include individuals, prominent families, a couple that established an independent school in Roxbury, founding faculty members of the college’s Social Sciences Department, and the founders of the Boston architectural firm, Stull and Lee, Inc. → Read More
City Councilor Julia Mejia files defamation lawsuit against website operator
Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia has filed a defamation and libel suit against the operator of a news website who uses the brand name Turtleboy, alleging he knowingly published false statements about her last year and in 2021. → Read More
State legal aid agency seeks more oversight when DCF removes children from homes without court order
A state law allows child welfare workers to remove children from their homes without a court order, and legal advocates and at least one state representative are trying to change it. → Read More
Teens from across the state gather in Boston for service event honoring MLK, Coretta Scott King
Nearly 400 eighth-graders were selected this year to participate in a leadership and community service program sponsored by Project 351, a nonprofit organization. → Read More
Hardwick residents vote Saturday on developer’s push to build horserace track in town
Polls at Hardwick Elementary School opened at noon for voters to cast ballots in the special election to decide whether to let a development group known as the Commonwealth Equine and Agricultural Center build on Great Meadowbrook Farm a 360-acre site. → Read More
Former leader of trucking company linked to N.H. truck crash that killed 7 seeks return to commercial driving
Dunyadar Gasanov, 38, the former vice president of the defunct Westfield Transport in West Springfield, wants to get back into commercial trucking, and, over the objections of prosecutors, on Monday he convinced federal magistrate judge in Springfield to give him a chance. → Read More
Investigation into South Boston human remains turns to autopsy
The state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner faces a daunting task in unraveling the mystery of the four sets of human remains discovered last month in a condominium building on East Broadway in South Boston. → Read More
Remains of Cambridge soldier killed in WWII identified
Private Joseph E. Lescaut of the US Army Air Forces died on July 26, 1942 at the Cabanatuan POW camp in the Philippines. → Read More
‘I wanted to learn from the best,’ Healey says of her early years of private law practice
Years before Maura Healey embarked on a public service career that would see her become the state’s first elected woman governor, she was a junior attorney in the litigation department of WilmerHale in Boston. → Read More
Eversource seeks 43 percent rate hike for eastern Mass. electric customers
If approved, a residential electric customer in eastern Massachusetts who uses 600 kilowatt hours of power monthly could see their bill rise by 23 percent or about $47. → Read More
Cambridge man on overturn for Australian in killing of brother: ‘It was quite a letdown.’
Steve Johnson of Cambridge has traveled repeatedly to Australia to press for answers in the death of his younger brother, Scott, who fell to his death in 1988. → Read More
Gubernatorial candidates discuss economic policy, housing, and the environment
Republican Geoff Diehl, a former state lawmaker from Whitman, and Attorney General Maura Healey, a Democrat, appeared separately Saturday at an event organized by the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations. → Read More
Two people onboard plane killed in Keene, N.H., crash Friday night, officials say
City officials didn’t release the names of the victims, who had just taken off in a plane owned by Monadnock Aviation. → Read More
Power surge causes transformer fires in Waltham
Eversource, which provides electricity to more than 29,000 customers in Waltham, said in a statement that its substations on Pine and Main streets experienced “a high voltage and equipment issue.” → Read More
US states were supposed to improve systems for tracking dangerous drivers. Many still haven’t.
Almost half of US states and territories have yet to respond to the federal government's call to improve their systems for tracking dangerous drivers. → Read More