A unique case before Massachusetts' highest court is challenging the practice of ordering people with addiction to stay drug free as a condition of probation.
TAUNTON — The Massachusetts woman convicted of involuntary manslaughter for urging her boyfriend to kill himself is being sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison, with part of that time being suspended.
Judge Lawrence Moniz sentenced Michelle Carter to the two-and-a-half year sentence, with 15 months deemed a committed sentence at the Bristol County House of Corrections, and the balance suspen