The Ballbarians are back on top. In a dominant 10-1 championship game performance, the Ballbarians took down the No. 1 seed, ...

The third week of the Stearns Wharf murder trial ended on Wednesday with closing arguments from the prosecution and the defense before the jury began its ...

The Milwaukee man sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing and dismembering Sade Robinson ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, urged a federal judge Tuesday to reject the ...

Public defenders are vowing to continue a push on Beacon Hill for better wages after Gov. Maura Healey signed off on a pay ...

CPCS employees, including public defenders and social workers, are pushing for unionization, citing pay and retention issues. A ballot question is in the works for 2026.

In 2006, Ari Shapiro reported on how Hurricane Katrina made an already broken public defender system in New Orleans worse.

The longtime lawyer has led the Northeastern Judicial Circuit's Public Defender office since its inception in 2004.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has approved a $20 hourly pay raise for public defenders in an effort to end their ongoing ...

Accomplice Ricardo Tomas Jauregui-Moreno testified in Santa Barbara County Superior Court on Monday that he heard gunshots ...

Hurricane Katrina exposed longstanding flaws in the New Orleans criminal justice system. In the 20 years since, there has ...

Dozens of criminal cases are being dismissed in Massachusetts and other states as public defenders refuse to take on new cases until they get a pay raise.