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Duncan W. Purdy, owner of the About Hair salon and antique store near Harvard Square, was “found guilty of maintaining a house of prostitution and deriving support from the earnings of a prostitute” last week, according to Middlesex District Attorney Spokeswoman Meredith Lerner. Purdy is scheduled to return for sentencing for the prostitution charges on March 13. The case was brought to trial before the Superior Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on February 20, and ended on February 23. Purdy pled not guilty to all charges. According to the Commonwealth’s statement...
Pring-Wilson stabbed Colono after the two were involved in an altercation outside a Western Avenue pizza parlor. According to Pring-Wilson’s defense attorneys, the ex-graduate student reacted out of self-defense. Middlesex Superior Court Judge Regina L. Quinlan granted Pring-Wilson a new trial in June of last year after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a victim’s history of violent behavior could be used as evidence in a self-defense case, even when that history is unknown to the defendant. Initially, Quinlan barred defense lawyers from using evidence of Colono?...
...Middlesex District Attorney spokeswoman Melissa Sherman declined to comment yesterday...
...commanded the town’s militia at the first battle of the Revolution. Among his many other accomplishments, Baldwin was responsible for the development of the Baldwin apple—which was once considered New England’s favorite fruit. He also oversaw the construction of the Middlesex Canal, which originally spanned from Boston Harbor to the Merrimack River in Lowell—a feat that earned him the moniker “Father of American Civil Engineering.” “He was a pretty extraordinary fellow,” Edmonds said. The memorial, which...
...Unopposed, Cambridge City Councillor Michael A. Sullivan won his race to become the next Middlesex County Clerk of Courts, a position held for the last 48 years by his uncle, Edward J. Sullivan...