Denise Lavoie

July 06, 2009 | Daily Report Online

SALEM, Mass. AP - A woman accused of withholding cancer treatment from her autistic son by canceling appointments and not filling prescriptions pleaded not guilty Monday to an attempted murder charge in the boy's death.Kristen LaBrie was ordered held on $15,000 cash bail during her arraignment Monday in Salem Superior Court.

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June 04, 2008 | Daily Report Online

BOSTON AP - An attorney says New England Patriots lineman Nicholas Kaczur ka-ZUR' was arrested on drug charges, then helped federal authorities in a sting operation that led to the indictment of a supplier.Kaczur was arrested in New York in April on a misdemeanor charge of illegal possession of oxycodone.The alleged dealer, Daniel Ekasala eck-ah-SAH'-lah, was arrested last month and faces arraignment Wednesday.

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December 04, 2007 | Daily Report Online

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April 28, 2009 | Daily Report Online

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October 07, 2010 | Daily Report Online

BOSTON AP - Johnson Johnson is asking a judge to dismiss a complaint accusing the health care giant of paying millions in kickbacks so nursing homes would put more patients on its popular schizophrenia medication and other drugs.The government and two whistleblowers allege that JJ paid kickbacks to long-term care pharmacy Omnicare Inc.

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May 14, 2013 | Daily Report Online

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology can black out the names of university officials when releasing documents related to the investigation into free-information activist Aaron Swartz, a federal judge has ruled.

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April 17, 2009 | Daily Report Online

QUINCY, Mass. AP - A pregnant Massachusetts woman accused of killing her 9-year-old daughter and stabbing herself in the stomach to kill her unborn child could be arraigned in her hospital bed on Friday, a district attorney said.Fang Chi Xue, 38, was treated for self-inflicted stab wounds to the arms and abdomen at Boston Medical Center and is expected to be arraigned on two counts of murder, Norfolk District Attorney William Keating said.

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September 05, 2007 | Daily Report Online

BOSTON AP - An epoxy company blamed for a deadly ceiling collapse inside one of Boston's Big Dig highway tunnels pleaded not guilty Wednesday to manslaughter.Powers Fasteners Inc., based in Brewster, N.Y., was indicted by a grand jury last month in the July 2006 death of Milena Del Valle. Del Valle was killed when 26 tons of concrete ceiling panels came crashing down as she and her husband drove through a tunnel.

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October 11, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Federal prosecutors are pressing a judge to let relatives of the 19 people gangster James "Whitey" Bulger was charged with killing make victim impact statements when he is sentenced next month.

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April 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

BOSTON AP - A federal jury on Monday awarded more than $325,000 to nine Logan International Airport skycaps for American Airlines who claimed they lost tips when the airline instituted a $2 fee for checking a bag at curbside.American Airlines said its decision to impose the baggage fee in 2005 was an attempt to bolster its finances after it lost $821 million in 2004.

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