Here’s why a Massachusetts 14-year-old is being charged with murder as an adult

Here’s why a Massachusetts 14-year-old is being charged with murder as an adult

A 14-year-old Springfield boy is being charged with murder as an adult. But prosecutors didn’t have a choice.Since 1996, all children over the age of 14 in Massachusetts charged with first or second degree murder have been charged as adults — meaning their cases have proceeded through the state’s court system as any other murder case would.

Man charged in connection with death of Shotts man, 24, in property

A 39-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with his death of 24-year-old John Cairns at a property in Shotts on the morning of Thursday, May 9.

Man charged in connection with death of 24-year-old

A 39-year-old was arrested and charged in connection with the death.