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A Massachusetts woman received a call from someone claiming another person had walked into her bank and tried to impersonate her. By the next morning, she was standing inside her real bank wiring $56,000 to scammers. The 43-year-old Hingham resident was told that her account had likely been compromised and...

Fresh Boston is shutting the doors of its South Boston restaurant and bar, ending an almost four-year run at 232 Old Colony Avenue that blended a sandwich counter, full cocktail bar, and liquor store under one roof. The owners announced the closure in an Instagram post, telling followers that small-business challenges

A woman survived a stabbing in downtown Boston last week after another woman rushed in to pull her boyfriend away, ending a near-fatal attack that left her with multiple stab wounds — all before he turned the knife on himself. Daudy Martinez, 51, was identified as the boyfriend and...

The CFO of a Malden spinal implant company has been sentenced to four months in prison for bribing surgeons to use the company’s products, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Aditya Humad, 41, of Cambridge was sentenced last week to prison followed by a year of supervised release....

Bailey, an English cream golden retriever known as the “Queen of the North End,” escaped her harness during the Feast and took an unexpected dip in the harbor. Bailey, an English cream golden retriever known as the “Queen of the North (End),” decided that the shoreline of Sargent’s Wharf in the North End was the perfec

HINGHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - Bradley Rein, the Hingham man charged in connection with a fatal crash into an Apple Store in 2022, will appear in court Monday. The Plymouth County district attorney’s office confirmed Rein was arrested by Hingham police for violating the terms of his ankle monitor. Rein...

Officials seeking to charge Brockton Mayor Moises Rodrigues with assault and battery on a then-high schooler cleared a significant legal hurdle Friday when the clerk-magistrate of the Wrentham District Court ruled that probable cause exists to find Rodrigues committed the crime in question. The alleged assault and batt

Boston will submit a Freedom of Information Act request to identify those who responded to ICE's "market research" notice. Boston officials are attempting to find out which, if any, private property owners responded to a recent ICE proposal to lease parking spaces in the city, Mayor Michelle Wu said over the weekend.

While no Bay Stater won the $1.04 billion Powerball jackpot, one Lynn woman became a multimillionaire in last week's drawing, state lottery officials announced. Almasa Cajic won a $2 million prize in the Wednesday, Aug. 12, Powerball drawing. A man in Illinois won the full $1.04 jackpot, the e…

Boston Harbor and neighboring Cambridge are exploring the use of river and sea-source heat pumps to provide emissions-free heating and cooling to large institutions in the area. The waters of Boston Harbor, most famous for the crates of tea hurled rebelliously into them more than 250 years ago, could soon...