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Police say the victim was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries.

BOSTON (WHDH) - A young girl was taken to the hospital after being shot in Dorchester Wednesday night, according to Boston police. Police responded to 129 Milton Avenue at approximately 8:30 p.m. and said they found a “female juvenile” victim with a gunshot wound. Police have not released her age at this time.

An enrollment contract at a prestigious private school can be a ticket to a top-tier education. But for some local families, tuition agreements have led to years of litigation, and a legal strategy that one parent calls, “disgusting.”

If you had any plans on the water, along the coast, or outdoors anywhere in eastern Massachusetts today, those plans need to change. A dangerous combination of gale-force winds, dry conditions, and elevated fire weather is battering the region — and it already turned catastrophic yesterday when wind-driven flames tore through a Lowell neighborhood.

A boy described as a talented young skier in Stowe died in an "unbelievable" accident after a tree fell on a school playground in Massachusetts on Monday.

The 60,000-square-foot outdoor spot opens May 8. Mighty Squirrel Brewing Co. is trading the taproom for the lawn this summer with a sprawling beer garden at Gore Place. According to a Facebook post, the Waltham-based brewery plans to open a 60,000-square-foot beer garden at Gore Place along the Watertown-Waltham line, debuting Friday, May 8, at 11 a.m., and...

MIDDLETON, MASS. (WHDH) - People who knew the Massachusetts State Trooper killed in a collision with a wrong-way driver in Lynnfield Wednesday are remembering him as an engaging, witty, and career-driven man. Kevin Trainor, 30, died while responding to a 9-1-1 call that reported a wrong-way driver was traveling north...

DEDHAM, Mass. (Court TV) — A woman charged with murder in the deaths of her two young children cried as she stood for her arraignment on Wednesday. Janette MacAusland, 49, entered a plea of not guilty to two counts of murder in the deaths of her children, Ella MacAusland, 6, and Kai MacAusland, 7. Janette ... Read more »

A former employee of Santander Bank has admitted to stealing more than $125,000 from the bank account of a 78-year-old customer with dementia.

BOSTON (WHDH) - A Dorchester man charged with a shooting near the J’Ouvert Caribbean festival that injured eight people in Boston in 2023 has been found guilty on several firearm related charges after two trials, Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden announced Wednesday. On April 22, a Suffolk Country grand...