11+ hour, 51+ min ago   (1147+ words) A recent miscarriage had taken a toll on Iara do Carmo Santana. Distraught and suffering from an infection, she got into an argument with her fiancé at the start of Labor Day weekend, and he quickly concluded she was experiencing…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1088+ words) LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Justice Department failed to secure felony convictions against most of the 102 protesters arrested in four major cities last year on charges of assaulting federal authorities — a record far below the norm in federal assault prosecutions. All…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (653+ words) More than three decades have passed since the body of 27-year-old Susan “Su” Taraskiewicz was found in the trunk of her car in Revere, after she worked an overnight shift as a baggage handler at Logan Airport. The homicide investigation…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (631+ words) The ad, doing the rounds on social media, is chilling. A woman is tending to a baby in a crib when she hears an intruder entering her house. She puts a chair up against the nursery door and calls 911. They…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1287+ words) Were you or someone you know a juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial? The Globe would like to talk to you. When faced with high-stakes cases, some lawyers take a dry run, a mock trial to assess their arguments and…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (772+ words) David H. Rosmarin is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the director of the McLean Hospital Spirituality & Mental Health Program. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been inundated with messages about the trial of Lindsay Clancy, who…...

3+ day, 6+ min ago   (453+ words) Lindsay Clancy defense attorney Kevin Reddington blasted Senator Ted Cruz late Thursday, calling the Texas Republican “despicable” for comments he made calling Clancy “a monster of a mother.” “You clearly do not come close to understanding the basic concept of…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (268+ words) The recently released Jeffrey Epstein emails are peppered with mentions of Harvard University – and one of the school’s former presidents, Larry Summers. Summers is immediately stepping back from his teaching duties at Harvard University as the school investigates…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (501+ words) Federal immigration agents on Thursday took a person into custody outside a Newton courthouse and briefly detained a second individual outside City Hall, Mayor Marc C. Laredo said. “ICE agents detained, and took into custody, an individual outside of the Newton…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (185+ words) Investigators on Martha’s Vineyard are probing an alleged sexual assault that occurred at the island’s Massachusetts State Police barracks last month, officials said. Oak Bluff police responding to a report “involving a woman in distress” in late August eventually determined…...