The state’s highest court denied a new trial for Philip Chism, who was convicted of raping and killing his Danvers High School math teacher in 2013 at age 14. Philip Chism, who was 14-years-old when ...

DANVERS, Mass. - A well-liked teacher was found slain in woods behind this quiet Massachusetts town's high school, and a 14-year-old boy who was found walking along a state highway overnight was ...

A teenager accused of killing his high school math teacher told police he knocked her out with a "karate chop" before slicing her neck two times with a box cutter, a police detective said Friday in a ...

Trying hard to blink back whatever emotion is bottled inside him, Philip Chism stared mostly straight ahead as the judge sentenced him to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years ...

SALEM — A jury has found Philip Chism guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated rape, and armed robbery in the death of Danvers High School math teacher Colleen Ritzer. Chism will receive a life ...

A judge on Tuesday granted a defense motion suppressing some of the evidence in the case of a Massachusetts teenager charged with raping and killing his high school math teacher in 2013. Among that ...

Defense attorneys for the Massachusetts teen accused of raping and murdering his high school teacher rested their case Tuesday. Attorneys for 16-year-old Philip Chism have argued an insanity defense ...

The body of a popular Massachusetts teacher who police say was killed by one of her students was found in the woods, naked from the waist down and with her throat slit and a note that read, "I hate ...

A 15-year-old Massachusetts boy charged with killing his math teacher is returning to court for arraignment on a second rape charge. Philip Chism is charged in the October killing of Colleen Ritzer, a ...