GARDNER — Prosecutors say they discovered the blood of a man found dead in New Hampshire on the tree house of a woman suspected of his murder.
Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said Tuesday that 21-year-old Julia Enright was charged with murder at an arraignment in Gardner. She’s being held without bail. Early said the Ashburnham woman knew the man, 20-year-old Brandon Chicklis, from high school.
The body of the Westminster man was found July 10 in Rindge, N.H., not far from the Massachusetts border. He had been missing for more than two weeks.
The body was found by a jogger, several feet from the roadside. Chicklis’ car was found in a supermarket parking lot in Rindge.
SALEM — A judge has postponed sentencing for a man who worked with a dog breeder convicted of hanging two puppies and giving Valium to a dog that later died.
The Salem News reports that a judge granted a motion filed by Jason Gentry’s attorney to postpone his client’s sentencing until Aug. 29. Gentry had been scheduled for sentencing Wednesday along with his co-defendant, New York dog breeder Dominic Donovan.
Officials say the sentencing was postponed to avoid having both men in court at the same time.
Gentry pleaded guilty to 12 counts of animal cruelty and a charge of keeping a kennel without a license. The 37-year-old Swampscott man testified against Donovan.
Police say Donovan ran a squalid kennel in Lynn and mistreated the dogs.
BRISTOL, R.I. — Police say the child struck and killed by a vehicle while riding his bicycle along a Rhode Island bike path is a 6-year-old boy from Massachusetts.
The boy from Somerset, whose name wasn’t released, was struck Tuesday afternoon as he crossed a road while riding along the East Bay Bike Path in Bristol. He was taken to Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence where he was pronounced dead.
Witnesses said the boy was with his parents and two sisters.
The car that struck him was driven by a 21-year-old woman from Canton, Connecticut. The investigation is ongoing and no charges have been announced.
Retired Bristol police Officer Steve Annarummo says three children have now died at the spot following fatalities in 1982 and 1998.
The state says it will be conducting a safety review.
SEEKONK — Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s publisher says a book signing at a Massachusetts warehouse store has been canceled “due to the political climate.”
Regnery Publishing said in a statement that the BJ’s Wholesale Club in Seekonk canceled Spicer’s book signing that was scheduled for Saturday to mark the release of “The Briefing,” which came out Tuesday.
Regnery says it learned about the cancellation last Friday and was disappointed and surprised.
A BJ’s spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
WORCESTER — A man has pleaded guilty to lying to police looking into the disappearance of a 5-year-old boy who was later found dead.
Christian Sierra, 25, was handed a 2 ½-year suspended jail sentence on Tuesday after pleading guilty to perjury and misleading investigators probing the 2013 disappearance of Jeremiah Oliver, of Fitchburg. Jeremiah’s body was found in a suitcase off Interstate 190 in Sterling in April 2014.
Sierra is the brother of Alberto Sierra, who was the boyfriend of Jeremiah’s mother, Elsa Oliver.
Prosecutors say Christian Sierra lied about his communications with his brother.
Alberto Sierra and Elsa Oliver have both been sent to jail on abuse charges.
The investigation into the boy’s homicide remains open.
From Associated Press