BOSTON (AP) — Time could be running out for Massachusetts prosecutors seeking to put a teenager on trial for encouraging her boyfriend to take his own life by sending him dozens of text messages and telling him to "get back in" a truck filled with carbon monoxide fumes.
Michelle Carter, 19, is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2014 death of Conrad Roy III, 18, of Mattapoisett.
Senate President Stanley Rosenberg conceded Monday something that many on Beacon Hill have assumed for weeks: the Senate's charter schools bill is as dead as a snowman on the summer solstice.
"Slowdown in the Legislature? Does a dead stop equal slowdown?" Rosenberg said with a laugh when a reporter suggested the bill had run into a slowdown. "I expect this issue is going to get resolved by the people on the ballot."
