Middlesex County (Massachusetts)

WATERTOWN, Mass. — With the Boston area jumpy from the deadly marathon bombings, a shooting that killed a police officer at MIT and a nearby carjacking triggered a massive police response. By early Friday, one suspect was in custody and police had...

BOSTON -- Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan Solomon tearfully pleaded Thursday for leniency for her brother, who was sentenced to prison on a lesser charge in his fatal altercation with their father. A Middlesex County Superior Court judge sentenced...

Primary Sources Log of the Ships Africa, Good Hope, and the Fox, 1757-1758, unpublished manuscript, Connecticut State Library. Newspaper and document collections at the New London Colony Historical Society, the Middlesex County Historical Society, the...

Early one evening in the fall of 1984, John F. Kerry was flying home from a campaign stop in western Massachusetts when his helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing. An engine light signaled trouble, so the pilot touched down in an open field...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In the summer of 1976, John F. Kerry's run as a young man of destiny seemed in danger of running its course. He'd skipped around his home state in a hunt for political office, only to get clobbered in his quest for a House seat....

When Michael Skakel walks into court Tuesday on the first day of his murder trial, scores of television and still cameras will be trained on him every step of the way. The last image they capture will be his back as he passes through the exterior doors....