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TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - Jury selection is set to begin in the trial of a Massachusetts woman accused of sending her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to kill himself. Michelle Carter is charged with manslaughter in the 2014 death of Conrad Roy III...

WESTPORT - A man is dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after a domestic disturbance in Westport. Westport Police responded to a home in the area of 1300 Main Road in the town just before 10 p.m. Saturday night. Upon arrival, a woman exited the home and told police that her husband had assaulted her with a firearm...

MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Manchester police say the man who set off an improvised explosive device at an Ariana Grande concert in northern England died in the attack. Police said Tuesday 22 people died in the attack Monday night. It wasn't clear if that included the suspected suicide bomber...

BOSTON (AP) - The fiancee of former NFL player Aaron Hernandez is speaking out publicly for the first time. A two-part interview with Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez is scheduled to air on the "Dr. Phil " show on Monday and Tuesday. In excerpts already released, Jenkins-Hernandez tells host Dr...

22 U.S. Veterans will commit suicide due to troubled issues... just today.

DARTMOUTH - Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson is defending his staff after a recent report showed that suicides among inmates in his department were more than double that of houses of correction in other Massachusetts counties. The report from WGBH says that since 2006, Bristol County has had 50% more suicides in their jails than Suffolk County, and more than twice as many as Essex and Worcest

TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - A judge has ruled that a Massachusetts woman charged with manslaughter for sending her boyfriend text messages encouraging him to take his own life can introduce medical records at trial that allegedly show he had been talking about suicide for years...

There always seems to be some sort of internet challenge going around, but the latest teen trend is extremely dangerous.

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) - A judge is set to hear arguments in a push by lawyers for former NFL star Aaron Hernandez to erase his conviction in a 2013 murder. The former New England Patriots tight end hanged himself in his prison cell April 19 while serving a life sentence in the killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd...

(AP)—A Massachusetts judge has ordered a district attorney to hand over copies of three suicide notes left by ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez by the time he is buried. George Leontire, an attorney for Hernandez's fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins Hernandez, made the request in court Monday morning, hours before Hernandez's funeral in Bristol, Connecticut...