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Words lose meaning

Murders, killings, deaths, destruction, bombs, war, hate, greed, corruption - all of it is part of life, our society’s gritty underbelly that isn’t hidden under the belly, thanks to journalism.
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DA: Milton police shooting justified

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. ...
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Cold case goes to trial in Boston

The long-cold case of the murder of 18-year-old mother Noemi Roman, whose infant son was left beside her blood-spattered body, may have finally been solved when the suspect goes to trial this week. Kurvin Ri...
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Chelsea man guilty of murder one

BOSTON -- Norton Cartright, 21, has been found guilty of first degree murder in the brutal slaying of his mother in 2006 It was a quick trial. We reported on the opening remarks just about a week ago, and ev...
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Daughter speaks out, mother upgraded to serious condition

Hugh Bachman, coach of the U.S. men's Olympic volleyball team and his wife, Elisabeth Bachman McCutcheon, a former Olympic athlete, spoke out in an open letter about the death of Elisabeth's father and injuries of her mother who were attacked Saturday at a tourist attraction in Beijing. [...]
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Olympic Committee identifies American slaying victim

An American was killed Saturday in Beijing. Todd Bachman, of Lakeville, Minn., the father-in-law of men’s indoor volleyball head coach Hugh McCutcheon, died after being attacked by an apparently deranged Chinese man who then reportedly took his own life.
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Olympics: One day, one tragedy

A deranged Chinese man attacked two Americans and their Chinese tour guide, who were visiting the Drum Tower in Beijing, a 13th century tourist attraction, Saturday, killing one and seriously injuring another b...
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Internet porn star Zoey Zane murdered

Emily Sander, an 18-year-old freshman at Butler Community College in Kansas, went missing after Thanksgiving weekend. Family and friends searched for the girl, who was last seen leaving a bar in El Dorado, Kan....
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If he did it

Reading O.J. Simpson's ghostwritten pot-boiler If I Did It is a little like coming home from school to see both of your parents drunk, practicing bondage in your living room. You might be horrified, and you kno...