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A man from Boston won $1 million from a lottery game that costs $5 per ticket to play. Fritz Arnoux, of the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, won $1 million playing “$1,000,000 Bonus Wins.” The game was released in July 2025 and has just one $1 million grand prize remaining to be claimed as of Jan. 2.

Loucho, a three-year-old Shar-Pei, is looking for a new home after being surrendered to the Quincy Animal Shelter in Massachusetts due to allergies in his previous household. The shelter describes him as embodying the best qualities of his breed: loyal, calm, protective, and dignified, though he may need a patient...

The bargain retailer is slated to shutter its stores in Boston, Massachusetts, and Silver Spring, Maryland by January 3

Boston police are investigating a New Year’s Day shooting in Roxbury that left a person with life-threatening injuries. Officers responded around 5 p.m. Wednesday to reports of a shooting on Akron Street. At the scene, they found a man with a gunshot wound. The man was taken to a...

A former Quincy official’s case is headed to trial in Febuary after federal prosecutors said he arranged for the city to pay for personal expenses, some of which included a Toyota Prius, a large self-portrait, steak tips and recordings of him singing. Thomas F. Clasby, Jr., was charged with...

A Dorchester man was arrested on Tuesday after being accused of shoplifting from numerous Target stores in multiple states.

Officials are urging members of the public to use "Safe Exchange Zones" inside BPD stations. A Dorchester man was arrested Thursday after allegedly trying to sell stolen skis on Facebook Marketplace. He was apprehended after the victim thought to check Facebook and found his skis listed there, police said. Tyrone...

The 21-year-old was set to graduate from Syracuse University this spring.

Volunteers reported arriving within minutes and locating the dog struggling in the water, unable to move. A yellow Lab named Phoenix rose from the ashes — or at least the ice — after falling into a frozen pond in Rhode Island on New Year’s Day, necessitating an ice rescue from local firefighters.

Two women lured a man to a Bally’s Twin River Casino hotel room, where a third assailant robbed the man at knifepoint. The news comes from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department in Massachusetts, which apprehended the three suspects after the victim reported the crime to police at 1:43 a.m. on December 29, 2025.