17 Mar, 2025

Belmont woman rescued, carried down N.H. mountain after suffering ankle injury

Local News New Hampshire Fish and Game officers and volunteers hiked her down the mountain in a stretcher. New Hampshire Fish and Game conservation officers and volunteers rescued a Massachusetts woman who twisted her ankle while hiking Mt. Willard over the weekend, the Fish and Game department reported in a press release. Karen Glover, 55, […]

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Firefighters rescue woman from sidewalk collapse outside Dorchester church

Local News The woman fell about 10 feet below street level into the church’s basement. She broke her leg in the fall. The sidewalk collapsed outside Bethlehem Temple Healing Church in Dorchester late Friday night. Boston Fire Department Boston firefighters rescued a woman who fell 10 feet after the sidewalk outside a Dorchester church collapsed […]

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Connecticut woman sentenced to 25 years in prison for murdering victim whose headless body was found in a park

Crime Casandra Nazario, 26, had entered a plea deal with prosecutors and testified against her codefendant, who was sentenced Aug. 2 to 55 years in prison. By Associated Press August 18, 2023 | 9:09 AM WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut woman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of a woman […]

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Quincy man accused of attacking a woman in the South End ordered held without bail

Crime Amos Sykes, 35, allegedly punched a woman in the head and tried to take off her clothes. He faces multiple charges. Amos Sykes was arraigned in Boston Municipal Court Monday for an alleged sexual attack on a woman on a South End street on Saturday. Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe A judge ordered that a […]

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Court documents: Woman allegedly threatened victim on social media before fatally stabbing her on Boston Common

Crime The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Monday that defendant Alyssa Partsch previously pleaded guilty to attacking a different woman with a knife in 2017. Alyssa Partsch, 30, is arraigned on a second-degree murder charge in Suffolk Superior Court on Monday. Suffolk County Superior Court Alyssa Partsch, the woman accused of fatally stabbing a […]

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Dorchester woman arrested in fatal stabbing of South Boston woman

Crime Jazreanna Sheppard, 21, was fatally stabbed July 20. She left behind a 2-year-old son, her family said. Boston police arrested a Dorchester woman over the weekend in connection with the fatal stabbing of a South Boston woman in July. Around 6 a.m. Saturday morning, officers arrested 30-year-old Alyssa Partsch for the murder of 21-year-old […]

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Two men charged in fatal shooting of Quincy woman in Dorchester

Crime The arrests came nearly two months after Princess Charles, 29, was shot and killed on Greenock Street Sept. 9.  Two men were arrested this week in connection with a September shooting in Dorchester that killed a Quincy woman and left another person injured.  The arrests came nearly two months after 29-year-old Princess Charles was […]

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A missing Whitman woman was found dead in a Logan parking garage. Now, police are after a Lowell man who boarded a flight to Kenya.

Crime Police found Margaret “Maggie” Mbitu’s body in a vehicle at Logan Airport’s Central Parking garage Wednesday night. She was reported missing Monday. Authorities are working to track down a Lowell man who they believe killed a woman whose body was found in a Logan Airport parking garage Wednesday night, according to the Suffolk County […]

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North Dakota woman accused of fatally poisoning her boyfriend hours after he received an estimated $30 million inheritance

National News Steven Riley Jr., 51, became ill when he met with a lawyer Sept. 3 to get the money, witnesses told investigators. By Associated Press updated on November 1, 2023 | 9:41 AM A North Dakota woman is accused of fatally poisoning her boyfriend with antifreeze after learning that he planned to break up […]

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