The Rev. Helen M. Sampson Murgida was headed to City Hall to deliver the opening prayer of the mayor's State of the City Address Wednesday when she was fatally struck by a pickup truck outside City Hall.
In a unanimous ruling, the state’s highest court said it will not retroactively apply its 2017 ruling that made it significantly more difficult to convict someone of murder if they played an ancillary role in a killing
The skeletal remains of a 53-year-old Haverhill man, last seen last July, were discovered Sunday morning in Saugus woods. Essex County District Attorney Paul F. Tucker’s office said Tuesday the remains were positively identified by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner as those of John F. Lawler of Haverhill. Tucker and Saugus Police Chief […]