All kinds walk through the security checkpoints at the Frederick County Courthouse on any given day, but few manage to turn heads like Giuseppe, Welton, Zeke and Zoey. “We’re just the handlers. They call us ‘the dopes on the ends of the ropes,'” said Francina Baldi with a smile as she led Giuseppe, a 3-year-old mini goldendoodle, toward the stairwell...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has upheld the involuntary manslaughter conviction of a Plainville woman after she encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself in dozens of text messages and told him to “get back in” a truck filled with toxic gas.

Kevin Spacey, who was accused of groping a former Boston television anchor’s 18-year-old son at a Nantucket restaurant in 2016, was not required to attend the hearing in Nantucket District Court.

The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been released from a Baltimore hospital where she had been treated for a possible infection. The 86-year-old Ginsburg has returned to her home in Washington, D.C., and is “doing well,” court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Sunday. Ginsburg spent two nights at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She was taken there Friday...

The NBA is investigating an incident between Boston guard Marcus Smart and a fan in Denver, after the Celtics guard said he heard a derogatory comment and was unhappy with the way that he believed security in the arena responded to the matter.

Kemba Walker suffered a concussion-like symptoms while playing against the Nuggets in Denver Friday night, the Celtics confirmed in a tweet Friday night. The point guard was taken off the court via stretcher late in the second quarter before being taken to a local hospital. Walker collided with teammate Semi Ojeleye late in the second quarter, striking Ojeleye’s abdomen area...

Celtics point guard Kemba Walker was taken off the court on a stretcher after suffering an injury. Walker was hurt in a collision with teammate Semi Ojeleye late in the second quarter against the Nuggets in Denver. The team announced on Twitter that Walker had been diagnosed with concussion-like symptoms. He is being taken to a hospital to be evaluated,...

A woman hired to oversee the books and finances at a major Washington, D.C. ballet school founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon is charged with defrauding the school, including by using its credit cards at MGM National Harbor casino.

The man found guilty of multiple charges in the death of a 44-year-old Massachusetts State Police trooper learned his fate on Thursday afternoon. David Njuguna, of Webster, was sentenced to 5-7 years in prison in the crash that killed Trooper Thomas Clardy on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Charlton on March 16, 2016. Njuguna was found guilty last week in Worcester...

An insurer for a trucking company involved in a crash that killed seven motorcyclists is asking a judge to divide liability payments among victims and their families. The Boston Globe reports that Pilgrim Insurance Co. filed suit in federal court Friday asking a judge to divide its $1 million policy for Westfield Transport.

A Massachusetts judge has issued her ruling in the trial of a man charged with causing the 2016 death a state police trooper on the turnpike.

A federal court in Boston has ruled that warrantless U.S. government searches of the phones and laptops of international travelers at airports and other U.S. ports of entry violate the Fourth Amendment. Tuesday’s ruling in U.S. District Court came in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of 11 travelers whose...

A Virginia doctor allegedly performed hysterectomies and tied a patient’s fallopian tubes without consent, federal authorities said in court documents, NBC News reported. Javaid Perwaiz, 69, was arrested Friday and charged with health care fraud and making false statements to federal investigators, according to papers filed in the Eastern District of Virginia. In one case, Perwaiz, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Chesapeake,...

A verdict has been reached in the trial of a man facing a manslaughter charge in connection to the 2016 death of a Massachusetts State Police Trooper. Judge Janet Kenton-Walker will announce her decision at 3 p.m. on Nov. 12 in the trial of David Njuguna, who is accused of killing Trooper Thomas Clardy after he allegedly struck his police cruiser.

The Massachusetts high school teacher accused of exchanging nude pictures with a student at Nashoba Regional High School in Bolton, has been fired from her job, according to the superintendent. Dorothy Veracka, 42, of Clinton, was arraigned Oct. 29 in Clinton District Court on charges of posing/exhibiting a child in the nude, distributing obscene matter to a minor and possessing...

The attorney of a man charged in the death of Massachusetts State Police Trooper Thomas Clardy withdrew from the high-profile case Monday after his client said he no longer had confidence in his counsel. Judge Janet Kenton-Walker granted a motion for attorney Peter Ettenberg to withdraw his representation of David Njuguna, the Webster man accused of killing Clardy in a...

A new twist in the high-profile case involving the death of a Massachusetts state trooper: a judge replaced the defense attorney following an in-court outburst from the accused.

Felicity Huffman is paying her dues following her 11-day prison sentence. Nine days after being released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, Calif. for her involvement in the college admissions scandal, the “Desperate Housewives” alum has begun carving away at her community service hours.