Kevin Berner told Braintree police that a nude photo of his 12-year-old son was circulating among other schoolchildren. Berner and his wife have been on a journey since, fighting for accountability.
Rakesh “Rick” Kamal’s veneer of wealth was an astonishing ruse, orchestrated so stealthily, family members said, that its mastermind managed to conceal it from colleagues, realtors, and even his own wife and daughter.
The story about an alleged drug trafficker, a detective, and a woman caught in the middle, seemed outlandish. Now, though, New Bedford police are acknowledging the claims have merit.
Federal and state court documents, as well as interviews, lay out the unlikely origins of a grisly case that led investigators from small-town Pennsylvania to an Arkansas morgue to Harvard Medical School.
Ana Walshe told Metropolitan Police in Washington, D.C., that a man threatened her during a telephone call and said “he was going to kill (her) and her friend,” according to a police report.
The brazen robbery has captured the imagination of an island better known as a swanky sandbox for the rich and powerful. It is also a reminder of a larger tradition in Massachusetts, site of some of the most notorious bank robberies in recent US history.
In an America still reeling from this once-in-a-generation movement, it has become the young officer’s dilemma. Stay, and serve at a time of unprecedented change and public scrutiny? Or abandon it altogether?
Attorneys for Juston Root’s family say video footage shows one of the officers who fired on Root was wearing a body camera. That officer told investigators he wasn’t.
This week may go down as the one in which all your friends and family became eligible for vaccination as the state expanded its guidelines to include more residents.
As the country scrambles to distribute a pair of promising COVID-19 vaccines, the process has been hindered by many of the same issues that impeded other mass vaccination rollouts throughout US history.
Clifton McHale, a 23-year BPD veteran with family ties to the department’s upper ranks, was accused in 2005 of sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman while in uniform in a police vehicle and agreed to serve a one-year, unpaid suspension following an investigation.
A growing chorus of medical experts is sounding the alarm on a nationwide mask
mandate, calling such a move a necessary step to mitigate the spread of
COVID-19.