Those hit hardest by March’s wild weather will have a little more time to file their taxes this year.

The Bristol County District Attorney’s office has ruled that the actions of a Dartmouth police officer were justified during an August shooting of a 42-year-old man.

Taxpayers in Rhode Island and much of eastern Massachusetts will get an extension on filing their federal income taxes because of the historic flooding in the region.

An off-duty security guard who fatally shot a psychiatric patient as the patient stabbed a doctor will not face criminal charges, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley announced Wednesday.

A Suffolk County grand jury has indicted a Escorts Boston man on charges of shooting two Maine residents, killing one of them, last summer.

The top securities regulator in Massachusetts alleges a Rhode Island-based company sold as much as $4 million in unregistered securities.

The stormy weather in the Northeast is causing delays for some air and rail travelers.

Newly elected Sen. Scott Brown has already lost his state director. Former campaign manager Beth Lindstrom has resigned from running Brown’s Massachusetts operation to work for New Hampshire Republican Senate candidate Jim Bender.

Gov. Deval Patrick says the rain storm battering Massachusetts is expected to be worse than the one that swamped the state two weeks ago because this time the water has nowhere to go.

A Connecticut man accused of shooting a Pembroke dance instructor outside her home in a murder-for-hire plot will stay behind bars for at least another week.