Debra Dewitt News Today

LOWELL — During his lunch hour, Judge Neil Walker was known to shed the judge's gown and hit the streets of Lowell for a stroll. As his son pointed out, Walker never actually lived in Lowell, but he immersed himself in the community he worked in, treating it as his home away from home.

A teen accused of gunning down a Massachusetts basketball star days before his first game as a college freshman had been in a relationship with a woman who was riding in the car in which the student was shot.

SALEM — A college community was reeling Thursday as the suspect in the Halloween night murder of Salem State University freshman Carl-Hens Beliard was arraigned on a murder charge, as

SALEM — A college community was reeling Thursday as the suspect in the Halloween night murder of Salem State University freshman Carl-Hens Beliard was arraigned on a murder charge, as

SALEM — A college community was reeling Thursday as the suspect in the Halloween night murder of Salem State University freshman Carl-Hens Beliard was arraigned on a murder charge, as

A district attorney in Massachusetts says police have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of a Salem State University student just days before his first college basketball game. Essex

SALEM — A college community was reeling Thursday as the suspect in the Halloween night murder of Salem State University freshman Carl-Hens Beliard was arraigned on a murder charge, as

WOBURN — Eric Griffin's eyes were cast down as Judge Patrick Haggan sentenced the 42-year-old Tewksbury man to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing his girlfriend, Jennifer Kalicki, nearly four years ago.

The man accused of killing a Medford couple and hiding their bodies in a storage unit was arraigned Tuesday.

Leonid Volkov, 37, was arrested and charged with murder after police located the bodies of Pavel Vekshin and Kiryl Schukin in a storage unit in Brighton.