Boston MA

A local man is being called a hero after jumping into action over the weekend to save someone from drowning. Thomas Concilio was fishing Sunday afternoon with his wife on the Marina Bay dock in Quincy, Massachusetts, when they noticed a father and son coming their way. "I could see...

Parents and teachers packed Peabody’s School Committee meeting on Tuesday night, addressing concerns about how bullying is handled within the district in the wake of 14-year-old Jason Bernard’s death.

A group of attorneys who represent indigent clients are refusing to accept new court-appointed cases until they receive a higher hourly wage. These attorneys — many of whom practice private defense law as their day jobs — make themselves available at local courts to take cases for people who can’t afford a lawyer but...

A crash reconstruction expert on Tuesday provided jurors his analysis of Karen Read’s vehicle the night her boyfriend was killed in her second murder trial. Read, 45, is accused of backing her SUV into her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, 46, and leaving him to die on a snowy night in the front yard of...

Paul Buccieri’s story doesn’t start with Buccieri’s Pizzeria—it starts with a pizza paddle in hand at just 14 years old, learning the ropes from his older brothers at Pizzeria Regina. It was there, elbow-deep in flour and tradition, that a dream began to rise. Years later, after working his way up to manager and...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, in collaboration with the Mayor’s Office of Returning Citizens (ORC), has announced the award of over $900,000 to community organizations through two grant programs funded through the City’s annual operating budget that will provide funding to support reentry in Boston. The two grant...

Misdemeanor shoplifting incident led to seizure of immigrant with routine check of fingerprints. The person detained by immigration enforcement agents outside Cambridge police headquarters this month is a 35-year-old woman from Revere, Leidy Torres Castano, police said last week. Cambridge police had arrested her on...

A Boston woman, known by aliases including “Lola” and “dropdeadlola,” was sentenced on May 22, 2025, to two years’ probation for her role in an identity theft conspiracy that secured apartments used for drug trafficking. Ashley Roostaie, 38, appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Patti...

A group of Quincy residents filed a lawsuit in Norfolk Superior Court on Tuesday opposing the installation of two religious statues set to be built outside the city’s new public safety building.

Longtime private investigators say the Massachusetts State Police is denying their license renewal applications.