BOSTON — Authorities say one man was taken to the hospital after getting stabbed inside a Boston courthouse.
Police say the stabbing in Suffolk Superior Court just before noon on Wednesday started with an altercation inside an elevator and spilled onto the second floor, where there is a cafeteria and a jury room.
State police say a male victim was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital with injuries not believed to be life threatening. His name wasn’t released.
The second floor was shut down for the investigation.
The suspect or suspects fled and there have been no arrests.
The investigation includes how a weapon made its way past security, including metal detectors.
According to television reports, a man seen being placed in an ambulance was conscious.
HARTFORD — A man police say stabbed his girlfriend 30 times and kidnapped her 6-year-old son on New Year’s Day has been captured in New York City.
Hartford police say Edgar Manuel Maldonado was arrested on a fugitive from justice charge at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Police say Maldonado stabbed the woman at about 2 a.m. Tuesday during a domestic dispute.
The woman escaped from a vehicle and was taken to the hospital for emergency surgery, while the suspect took off with the boy.
The child was found unharmed in Worcester, Massachusetts later on Tuesday morning.
Maldonado faces charges of attempt to commit murder, first-degree assault, second-degree kidnapping and risk of injury to a minor. It was not clear of he had a lawyer who could comment on the allegations.
ATTLEBORO — A former police sergeant who pleaded guilty to child pornography charges is asking a federal court to throw out the conviction.
Former Attleboro Sgt. Richard Woodhead filed a brief last month saying his lawyers didn’t effectively represent him.
The 56-year-old Woodhead writes that federal prosecutors that federal agents entrapped him and that he was only engaging in a fantasy.
He pleaded guilty in August 2017 in federal court in Providence and received a five-year sentence. A previous appeal was denied in September because it was not filed in a timely fashion.
He pleaded guilty to communicating with a federal agent posing as an 8-year-old girl’s stepfather in attempt to get nude photos of the girl.
PRINCETON — Fire officials say a 17-year-old boy fell 30 feet off a cliff while hiking in a remote area of Massachusetts on New Year’s Day.
Princeton Fire Chief John Bennett says the teen was hiking in the town around 10:30 a.m. when he fell.
Bennett says the boy had grabbed onto a tree branch on top of the cliff and the branch broke, causing the teen to fall and land on his back 30 feet below.
Bennett says it took rescuers about 20 minutes to reach the boy, and he was reported responsive at the hospital.
The boy’s name and current condition have not been released.
Bennett is warning hikers to stay away from the cliffs which he says are extremely slippery and lack barriers.
From Associated Press