Editor's note: The following information has been provided by local police departments, courts and state agencies serving Patch towns. Where arrests are mentioned, they do not indicate conviction.
A Brockton woman was arrested for stealing items from Lord & Taylor in Braintree, having allegedly stolen more than $1,000 worth of wallets and handbags.
Also in Braintree, a Quincy man was arrested for shoplifting electronics from Sears.
In Milton, a Massachusetts State Trooper responding to a medical call shot and and killed a New Bedford-area man after responding to a call he was driving erratically.
A Milton parent said a high school teacher who was arrested for unlawful conduct with a student should never have taught this year.
Hingham Police are working with Crow Point neighbors to search individuals who allegedly stole two sheep scultptures from the front of a Hingham business.
An elderly Hingham resident was targeted by a phone scam, while Weymouth residents were told their loved ones were being held hostage in a similar scam.
A 47-year-old Braintree resident was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol on June 8 after an accident involving a Weymouth man.
In Plymouth, two individuals were charged with trespassing at the Pilgrim nuclear plant.
In Falmouth, police named the two victims involved in a double homicide.
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, meanwhile, responded to the death of one of the two victims.
In Barnstable, a 15-year-old was arrested and carged with carrying dangerous weapon.
An Edgartown woman was arrested on suspicion of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest and cruelty to animals.
In West Tisbury, a Pembroke man was charged with larceny of more than $250 after allegedly walking off with four photographic prints without paying for them at the Grange.