More than 100 Boston Municipal Court criminal defendants had their charges dismissed Tuesday due to lack of legal representation — including a number of serious assault and domestic battery cases.

One of the defendants in a cluster of thalidomide lawsuits in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is seeking nearly $177,000 in fees as a sanction against the plaintiffs' counsel, Hagens Berman Sobol ...

Twenty defendants charged in purchasing commercial sex through a Cambridge brothel network accepted the prosecution’s conditions of pretrial probation on Tuesday, avoiding conviction. At the pretrial ...

An accused cocaine trafficker, a man charged with beating a pregnant woman and a woman who had been on the Boston Police Department’s most wanted list were among the more than 100 defendants whose ...