Middlesex County News

A judge has postponed sentencing for a former Middlesex County probate register who pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from cash and copy machines, and from his campaign funds.

WBZ 2 of 3 WBZ 3 of 3 Surveillance video shows, what prosecutors say, is John Buonomo taking money from cash and copy machines.

A former Middlesex County probate register who has pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from cash and copy machines at the Registry of Deeds in Cambridge and from his campaign funds is set to be sentenced.

Carmen Ortiz. AGE-BIRTH DATE-LOCATION - 53. Born January 1956, in New York City.

Colm Sullivan told his dad he loved him, then fell asleep on the couch. He never woke up.

The city's favorite biannual season -- election season -- wraps up tomorrow and Gail Cenik, office manager of the city's Election and Census Commission has her fingers crossed.

MIDDLESEX DISTRICT Attorney Gerard Leone wants state lawmakers to give juries more say in whether some sex offenders should be civilly committed after completing their criminal sentences.

The money rattling around in Jasmine's pocket is all she had left from her last paycheck.

The violent deaths of William and Jane Wyman of Newton last week, allegedly by his hand in the home they shared for decades, shows the need for more communication and education about domestic violence, said several local social workers and advocates.

Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone and state Sen. Steven Baddour, D-Methuen, will testify at a hearing Tuesday on behalf of a bill they say will reform the sexually dangerous persons statute five days after a convicted sex offender with a lengthy record in Massachusetts and New Hampshire allegedly attacked a woman at a Boston hospital.

The following is an announcement from Middlesex County District Attorney Gerry Leone: A Medford man, Tom Evans, has been found guilty for the 2006 murder of Paula Doherty, 48, also of Medford, Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone informed the public today.

During a city election cycle in which there has been a lot of talk about "change," 11-term School Committee member Regina Faticanti reminds voters that experience is valuable, too.

Residents on Marshall Terrace are terrified that the triggermen who gunned down two brothers in their apartment in an early-morning double homicide will return to the quiet, dead-end street.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today rejected a lawsuit by three women who said they were groped by the disgraced ex-state Senator that would have forced him to keep his distance from all women in Massachusetts.

Selectmen voted unanimously Monday night to approve a liquor-license transfer to Michael Kazanjian, the new owner of "Michael's Pub" at 147 Frost Road.

With the change of the seasons I thought it would be timely to bring you up-to-date on what has been happening with House Bill 1148, An Act Relative to the Treatment of Lyme Disease.

A Medford manhole fire has forced a building evacuation, halted all downtown traffic and knocked out power in the central of town.

The former Middlesex County Register of Probate has pleaded guilty to two separate schemes in which he stole thousands in taxpayer money and more than $100,000 in campaign funds, according to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone.

Authorities say a Chelmsford, Mass. police officer was justified when he shot a woman who was on the run after allegedly brutally mugging an elderly woman at a Hannaford supermarket here.

In a perfect world, one might assume that when he was growing up, the celebrated Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy played catch with his dad every summer day and went to Fenway Park so often that the crease in his pants ran sideways.