Shelley Murphy

Federal prosecutors will not challenge an appeals court ruling in the case against Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, requiring a hearing into defense claims of juror bias at his death penalty trial.

Lori Jane Kearsey’s husband said he thought she left him; her family believed she joined the federal witness protection program; and others thought she moved to Florida, according to police and several people who were close to Kearsey.

Federal prosecutors said Monday that they reached an agreement with Fotios Geas, Paul DeCologero, and Sean McKinnon, and the three would plead guilty to murder charges.

Stavros “Steve” Papantoniadis was convicted following a two-week trial on three counts of forced labor and three counts of attempted forced labor.

One of three inmates accused of plotting the murder of James “Whitey” Bulger in prison was released Monday after prosecutors dropped the most serious charge against him.

“He’s just a complete fraud,” a former Winter Hill Gang member said of Sean Scott Hicks.

A Boston attorney is spearheading a legal battle challenging a new federal regulation that will ban all dogs from entering the United States before they are 6 months old.

Shayne Stilphen was placed alone in a cell at the District 4 police station in the South End, where he pulled out a small bag of fentanyl he had hidden inside his shorts.

The hefty sentence is largely symbolic, as Geas is currently serving a life sentence for his role in the 2003 murders of Springfield mob boss Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno and an associate.

Surveillance video turned over to Charles Murrell’s lawyers by Boston police showed Murrell being shoved into a light pole by Patriot Front members.