Middlesex County News

Charges were filed Monday relating to a 15-year-old unsolved murder. Dr. Linda Goudey was strangled in 1993 and her killer has never been caught.

He is a shapeless pink slob covered in warts, with big red fish lips and a nasty attitude.

A 48-year-old Florida man will be arraigned Thursday in a rape case for which he was wanted more than 20 years before he was finally returned to Lowell to face justice.

Rusty Haight was about to zip across an intersection in a blue Chevrolet Impala yesterday afternoon when a green Ford Focus station wagon came rolling down at him from the left.

Charges were filed Monday relating to a 15-year-old unsolved murder. Dr. Linda Goudey was strangled in 1993 and her killer has never been caught.

Attorney General Martha Coakley has won a $50,000 judgment against a Boston home improvement contractor, who also worked in Middlesex County, permanently prohibited from soliciting or providing home contracting ...

General Assignment Reporter Jessica Van Sack is the Herald's Boston police bureau chief covering crime and justice.

Seven state troopers accused of raping a woman at one of their homes will not be charged with a crime, a prosecutor said Thursday.

The state Public Health Department said Wednesday that two more cases have been linked to the nationwide outbreak.

A lawyer for state Senator J. James Marzilli Jr. said yesterday that his client has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but he declined to provide any medical specifics.

Lyme disease continues to spread throughout Massachusetts, so residents must try to avoid tick bites whenever possible to prevent this sometimes serious illness.

State Senator Jim Marzilli pleaded not guilty July 9 to charges of accosting and attempting to sexually assault four women on June 3 in Lowell.

Only three of the 10 health maintenance organizations offering health care coverage to Massachusetts residents saw membership increases from the fourth quarter of 2007 to the first quarter of this year, ...

Public health officials say the number of salmonella cases in Massachusetts has risen to 21 after four more cases were identified during a nationwide outbreak associated with certain types of raw tomatoes.

Christopher M. French, 27, of 23 Hollywood Road, was arrested by detectives from the Winchester Police Department on Saturday, June 28, and charged with one count of child enticement.

A former radio personality faces life in prison after a jury found him guilty of killing his wife.

Two former employees of the student activities office at Tufts have been charged with stealing nearly $1 million from the Massachusetts university.

Massachusetts state Sen. J. James Marzilli Jr. now faces charges he sexually accosted four women during a span of four hours one afternoon last month.

A Massachusetts jury has convicted a former Missouri radio reporter of killing his wife by poisoning her with antifreeze.

The Massachusetts State Police have announced that on Friday and Saturday, a "sobriety checkpoint'' will be set up on a secondary state highway somewhere in Middlesex County.