BOSTON – A spate of vandalism directed at Catholic religious icons around Easter weekend has provoked ire mixed with forgiveness from parishioners at affected congregations in Greater Boston and has left law enforcement officers scratching their heads.
Vandals struck in Billerica, Burlington and Norwood, including two statues of the Virgin Mary. The attackers severed appendages on both.
BOSTON (AP) — Dozens of text messages that a teenage girl sent to her boyfriend that encouraged him to kill himself were just words and do not constitute a crime, her lawyer told the state's highest court Thursday.
But a prosecutor argued that Michelle Carter pressured Conrad Roy III for weeks to end his life and engaged in "emotional manipulation" of a vulnerable teen who had struggled with depression and previously attempted suicide.
