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From left: Rep. Dan Hunt and wife Rachel, Jim Hunt III with wife Robin, Jim Hunt II, Sister Gail Donahue, CSJ, Holly and Peter Hunt. Photo courtesy Sisters of St. Joseph Boston. The Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston hosted their 13th Annual Living the Dream Dinner on April 13...

BOSTON (WWLP) – A Boston man faces charges after he was allegedly found with a loaded firearm in his waistband during an arrest on March 17 in Brookline. The Department of Justice states the the arrest occurred when 21-year-old Hakeem Cooper was taken into custody on a state warrant. Authorities allegedly discovered a Taurus PT111 Millenium G2 9mm pistol, loaded with 12 rounds...

Marathon Monday chaos ends with suspect cuffed after stealing police

A 26-year-old man from Lexington who was fatally shot by a police officer this past weekend has been identified.

A hiker from Massachusetts who became lost on a New Hampshire trail on Monday is the sixth Bay State resident rescued on local mountain trails in a three-day period. Jonathan Gullotti, 56, of North Reading, Massachusetts, was rescued Monday night after he became lost off the Rocky Branch Trail in Bartlett, New Hampshire Fish and Game Department officials said in a statement on...

A tense standoff at an apartment on Chestnut Street in Chelsea wrapped up peacefully Tuesday after officers confronted a man armed with two knives near a neighborhood daycare. Nearby homes were briefly ordered to shelter in place and the daycare was evacuated as a precaution while police locked down the scene. The man eventually surrendered, was taken into custody, then transported to Massachusetts General...

A popular pub across the street from Boston’s Faneuil Hall has closed after more than half a century in business. Clarke’s, which opened in 1975 at 21 Merchants Row, closed its doors for good on Saturday, April 17, the Boston Globe reported. One of the bar’s owners, Stephen Miller, told the newspaper the owner of the unit foreclosed in June and while he and...

Prosecutors dropped charges last year against a Chelsea police officer who had been charged in connection with a domestic violence incident, court records show. Officer Michael Villanueva was charged with a felony count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and a misdemeanor count of assault and battery on a family/household member in connection with an incident last July. Roughly two-and...

A Massachusetts Police Department has charged 17 people from across New England following a comprehensive investigation into a coordinated street takeover that endangered motorists and responding officers in October 2025. The incident occurred early Sunday, October 5th, 2025, when large crowds gathered at the intersection of North Main and Oak...

A man suspected of shooting someone in a Brockton home was arrested at Boston's Logan airport upon returning to the country this weekend, police said. Christian Cordero was wanted in the April 8 shooting on Oberlin Road that sent a man to the hospital with a wounded leg, according to Brockton police.