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 ...

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 ...

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 — It was the evening of Oct. 22, 2013, and Danvers Police school resource officer Steve Baldassare had just learned both a 14-year-old teenager named Philip Chism and a 24-year-old teacher ...

The man convicted of raping and killing a high school teacher in Danvers, Massachusetts, was denied a chance at a new trial or resentencing. Prosecutors said Philip Chism killed Colleen Ritzer in 2013 ...

A Massachusetts teenager accused of raping and brutally killing his high school math teacher in 2013 was found guilty of first-degree murder on Tuesday. Philip Chism, 16, was also found guilty of ...

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 ...

The murder trial of a teenager charged with killing his math teacher ended early Tuesday when he told his lawyer he was "about to explode" and refused to go back into the courtroom. Denise Regan, a ...

A Massachusetts teenager who raped and killed his high school math teacher "knew right from wrong and could choose right from wrong," a prosecutor said Monday during closing arguments in the teen's ...