Matthew Bent and Denver Jarvis, both 15, and Jesus Mendez, 16, along with two others, are accused of pouring rubbing alcohol over Brewer and setting him alight in an apartment complex in Deerfield Beach, Florida on Oct. 12.

The student body president at the University of Massachusetts Boston was arrested and charged as a repeat drug dealer last week after the Boston Police Drug Control Unit raided his Dorchester apartment.
Terral Ainooson, 25, was arrested along with roommate, Ryan Oshima, 23, on November 11, when police found more than a dozen plastic bags of [...]

One hundred five people including 91 Colby-Sawyer College students were arrested at an illegal party in New London, N.H. Friday night, according to WMUR-TV.
Police told the television station that, of youths arrested, 55 were charged with alcohol possession after the blew above .02 percent blood-alcohol content. Others were released to their parents.
The party’s hosts, three [...]

John Allen Muhammad, the sniper who led a wave of terror in the Washington D.C. area for three weeks in October 2002, was executed Tuesday night in a Virginia prison, the Associated Press reported.
Muhammad and his teenage accomplice shot people, leaving a trail of 10 dead, as they purchased gasoline, went shopping, and mowed their [...]

A female Emerson College student was groped Friday night after leaving the Loews Boston Common movie theater on the outskirts of the school’s downtown Boston campus, police said.
According to George F. Noonan, Emerson College’s police chief and director of public safety, the victim was leaving the movie theater when she was approached by a man [...]

Gregg Woodward, 47, of Milford, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison followed by 7 years of supervised released after he pleaded guilty in January to possession of child pornography, according to acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks and Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in [...]

Police have re-implicated Yale lab technician Raymond Clark, previously called a “person of interest,” in the murder of Yale University graduate student Annie Le.
Clark was taken into custody Tuesday, but released after he volunteered a DNA sample.
According to The New Haven Register, police have now obtained a DNA match that implicates Clark in the strangling [...]

Ex-jailbird going back to prison

DNA test clears Yale lab technician

An Orange, Conn. rookie police officer has resigned from the force and faces criminal charges after he allegedly pretended to be his twin brother to lure a woman into having sex with him.
According to the New Haven Register, Jared Rohrig, 25, is charged with first-degree sexual assault and criminal impersonation in the case.
“Jared Rohrig’s decision [...]

Connecticut state police have found a body inside the wall of a Yale University building. While police have not confirmed it, presumably this is the remains of missing graduate student Annie Le, who was supposed to be celebrating her wedding day Sunday.
Police have now switched from a missing person investigation to a homicide case, said [...]

WTNH-TV New Haven reported that bloody clothing has been found above ceiling tiles in a Yale University building where missing graduate student Annie Le was last seen.
The sources told WTNH News Channel 8 reporter Erin Cox the area where the items were found is now considered a crime scene, but New Haven police officials would [...]

At the time of his capture Ramirez was holding 15 hostages including anti-corruption activist and former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who had been held captive for more than six years.

Its comforting to know that, in case of a zombie attack, Boston residents remain effective. Check out this lovely Twitter conversation and let your fears be assuaged.

Adams Management Group, a contractor for one of the main Big Dig construction companies, was charged Tuesday in federal court with submitting false claims on a federal highway project after a federal investigation revealed the firm allegedly engaged in a scheme to falsely categorize laborers to overcharge the government.
The investigation alleges that, beginning in 2002 [...]

A Wesleyan University student was shot and killed at the school’s bookstore Wednesday, according to WTNH-TV New Haven.
Police were still seeking a suspect, but WTNH reported that a gun was found.
The shooting occurred at 1 p.m. at the Red and Black Cafe inside the Wesleyan bookstore, Broad Street Books.
The student’s name has not bee released.
Wednesday [...]

Boston.com, citing an Associated Press story, is reporting that a Bridgeport, Pa. party turned deadly after one man shot and killed another man over an argument about a game of beer pong.
Authorities say Joseph Jimenez, 24, killed Scott Riley, 25, after they argued over the beer pong game Friday at a party in a suburb [...]

No, Boston is not in the grips of a mad scientist with anthrax. Nor is it under siege from a series of terrorist briefcase bombs.
It was pot, marijuana, Mary Jane, grass, weed and a whole lot of it that tied up half the emergency services in the city Thursday afternoon.
Mailroom workers at One Financial Center [...]

More women are being attacked in the North End, in mirror images incidents that have been going on for the past several years.
On Friday around 9:30 p.m. a woman told police she was walking near Prince Street in Boston’s “Little Italy” when a man attacked her with a knife. She fended him off and was [...]

A driving instructor was clearly sending the wrong message to his students — he was found guilty Thursday in Ipswitch District Court for giving a driving lesson while he was drunk.
Daniel Winsky, 53, of Salem, was found guilty and sentenced to 18-months probation and a one-year loss of license after being found guilty of [...]

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