Police and courts reporter
Flint McColgan
Flint McColgan is the police and courts reporter for the Boston Herald. He previously worked covering politics in Pennsylvania and breaking news and government in North Dakota starting in 2012. He also serves as the news editor on Saturdays. Before journalism, he supported himself as an occasionally successful roving pool player in the Midwest and southwest.
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Dorchester’s 4th of July killer gets 17-20 years in prison
Kristian Maraj has given up two decades of his freedom for deciding to fire into a crowd of people on Independence Day 2020 and taking the life of Felicity Coleman.
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3rd man charged in December Dorchester shooting murder
Patrick Harland, 30, of South Boston, is charged with first-degree murder, seven counts of armed assault to murder, witness intimidation, accessory after the fact and carrying a firearm without a...
‘Robot dog’ takes bullets for police on Cape Cod
On March 6, police released a robot designed and manufactured by Boston Dynamics into a Francis Circle residence in Barnstable to assist a Cape Cod SWAT team during a barricade...
Holyoke Soldiers’ Home ex-superintendent admits to neglect
The former superintendent of the Holyoke Soldiers Home, where 76 veterans died in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, has pleaded guilty to five charges of neglect but will...
Trial for accused murderer Karen Read could take as long as 6 weeks
“I'm just throwing at a dartboard, but based on what I know, if the Commonwealth's case takes three to four weeks, I think our case would probably take two weeks,”...
Boston riddled with scam phone calls demanding ransom for fake abductions, police say
The Boston Police Department reports it has received many complaints about phone calls wherein the caller tells a parent or relative that their child is being held hostage and will...
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Crime Briefs: Boston Police needs help naming new pup
There’s something cute sniffing around the Boston Police HQ but no one there knows just what to call it. Plus: South Station heroin, triple-kill DUI indictment, and career shoplifter strikes...
Accused migrant shelter child rapist pleads not guilty to additional rape charge
Cory Alvarez, 26, faces a new charge of rape of a child by force in a case where he previously pleaded not guilty to an aggravated child rape charge. He...
Boston cop killer arrested for robbery in Rhode Island
Joshua McCullough, 60, of Warwick, R.I., was until 2018 known as Terrell Muhammad, the man who shot and killed BPD Officer Thomas F. Rose on Feb. 19, 1993, while attempting...
Biden nominates Worcester attorney as federal judge in Massachusetts
U.S. District Court for Massachusetts nominee Brian E. Murphy has been a partner at Worcester’s Murphy & Rudolf LLP, an associate at the Boston firm Todd and Weld LLP, and...