Lawrence Votes No Confidence in Mayor DePeña Tonight. It Can’t Remove Him. Here Is What Can, Under the City Charter
The council can't fire him. Voters can, if 15 percent of them sign in 30 days. Here is the charter's recall process step by step.
Legal News
Boston Officer Nicholas O’Malley Fired Three Shots Into a Car Driving Away. The 2020 Law on Shooting at Fleeing Cars, and His Bid to Get the Case Dismissed
The 2020 police reform law has a rule on firing at a moving car. This case may be the first big test of it.
Is Lindsay Clancy Guilty? Massachusetts Is Split Down the Middle, and by Party. What That Means for a Retrial Jury
The people closest to the case are the least certain. Here are the numbers, and the two rules that decide whether Plymouth County can still seat a jury.
Video Shows He Steered Into Two Bridgewater State Students, Officials Say. What It Takes to Prove Attempted Murder With a Car
Officials say video shows he steered toward the students. Under Massachusetts law, everything turns on proving he meant to kill.
Healey Declared an Energy Emergency. Who Gets the New $680 Heating Oil Benefit, and What the Price Gouging Rules Actually Do
For the first time, middle-income oil-heat households can get state heating help. Here is who qualifies, and what "emergency" means for prices.
Farwell Said He Let Police Search His Whole Phone. Prosecutors Took Him Up On It Days Before Trial. What to Know as Jury Selection Starts
The defense said Farwell consented to a full phone search in 2021. Prosecutors took them up on it, days before trial.
Christa Pike Said She Feels “Kinship” With Lindsay Clancy. Days Later She Survived Her Own Execution
A Tennessee death row inmate praised Clancy's mistrial days before surviving two lethal doses. The legal comparison stops at the Massachusetts line.
Judge Refuses to Find Lindsay Clancy Not Guilty. The Ruling Quietly Shuts One of Her Two Doors to Avoid a Retrial
The judge said a jury could have convicted. That quietly shuts one of the two doors Clancy had to avoid a second trial.
“Leave It in the Hands of the Lord”: What the AG Report Says About Fall River’s James Porter and the Survivor Who Tracked Him Down
The diocese told Frank Fitzpatrick to leave it in the hands of the Lord. He was a private investigator. He found Father Porter in Minnesota and recorded him admitting it.
He Refused the Diocese’s Gag Agreement and Took $5,700. What the AG Found About Silenced Survivors and a Bishop Who Never Called Police
The Worcester Diocese would pay Phil Saviano only if he stayed silent. He took $5,700 instead and helped the Spotlight team break the story. The AG's report explains how silence was bought, and what it costs survivors now.