Middlesex County News

Dane Cook's half brother is facing new charges in Massachusetts that he allegedly stole more than $11 million from the comedian.

Officials at a county jail in Cambridge are still trying to dry out the facility after a group of inmates allegedly broke the building's sprinkler system.

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

A county jail in Cambridge has been evacuated after a group of inmates allegedly broke the building's sprinkler system.

Old-timers move on, newcomers move in. The relentless shuffle over time leaves the president of the town's historical society wondering whether local appreciation of Pepperell's most famous patriot will endure.

Traffic fatalities by county in Massachusetts in 2008. By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff The number of traffic deaths in Massachusetts dropped 16 percent, from 434 in 2007 to 363 in 2008, following a national trend, federal highway safety officials said this week.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood advisory for northeastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire that is in effect until 8:30 p.m. today.

A Marlboro teenager has been ordered held without bail in the shooting death of another Marlboro teen, whose body was found on a wooded state park trail in Framingham.

A teenager has been ordered held without bail in the shooting death of another teen whose body was found on a wooded state park trail in Framingham.

A pair of former Tufts University administrators have admitted stealing nearly $1 million from the school, Massachusetts prosecutors say.

Two former Tufts University employees pleaded guilty late Friday to stealing nearly $1 million from the University in two separate schemes.

Steve Perkins bowed during a prayer for the Bunker Hill Day commemoration yesterday in Charlestown.

Seven months after he was found to be the owner of a cache of weapons left in a vacant Woburn Street house, former Wilmington police Officer Steven Larivee has been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing.

The town with potentially the largest number of residential units to gain from the rezoning of Devens' Vicksburg Square to allow for residential uses is Ayer.

AYER, SHIRLEY & HARVARD - Ayer, the town with potentially the largest number of residential units to gain from the rezoning of Devens' Vicksburg Square, single-handedly defeated the idea with a decisive 73 to 22 Special Town Meeting vote Monday night.

The man who died after leaping from the French King Bridge Tuesday apparently drove to the area from Middlesex County, officials say.

A dramatic, black-and-white public service announcement featuring a young woman crying for help by her locker as a threatening young man ominously approaches has won a contest held by Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone, the office announced today.

An airman from Robins Air Force Base, Ga., has been arrested on charges that he seduced a 14-year-old girl he met on the social networking Web site Facebook.

Quick, why is June 17 a government holiday here and only here? If you answer, "Because the Battle of Bunker Hill took place on that day in 1775," you must be the scholarly sort.

An Everett man has been indicted on charges of operating a gambling ring that ran a series of illegal high-stakes poker games in a building on Main Street in that city, Middlesex County prosecutors said yesterday.