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 [...]

BOSTON — Norfolk County District Attorney WIlliam R. Keating’s office has ruled that the March 28 fatal police shooting of Kerby Revelus as he murdered two and wounded another of his sisters was justified.
“The evidence clearly indicates that the actions of Milton Police that day spared the life of this young [...]

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Boston Field Division, announced Wednesday that they are offering $5,000 added to the existing $5,000 reward set up by an insurance organization for the arrest of a suspect or suspects responsible for three suspicious Jamaica Plain fires.
According to the ATF, a Feb. 7 fire at 22 [...]

Margaret Greer can sell her Mercedes ML320 to pay for her legal fees.
The 57-year-old Wellesley woman allegedly tried to run down a state police officer who was giving her a ticket for idling in a bus lane at Logan International Airport in Boston.
According to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, on March 29, Greer struck [...]

The trial began March 25 of Anthony Chambers, who prosecutors say stabbed his friend to death during a drug-fueled argument in a Chinatown apartment in February 2008.
Authorities say Chambers, 52, is a homeless drug addict who frequently stayed at a friend’s studio apartment in Chinatown. On Feb. 10, 2008, they say Chambers and another friend, [...]

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