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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.

On April 17, almost ninety minutes into a five-plus-hour hearing on Boston’s education budget, a student from the Mendell Elementary School in Roxbury stepped up for two minutes to address the City Council Ways and Means Committee. “What I would like to say is that we need more budgets...

BOSTON, MA — A Massachusetts physician already facing multiple sexual assault allegations has been indicted on dozens of additional charges, significantly expanding a case that now involves more than 30 alleged victims. Prosecutors say Dr. Derrick Todd, a 52-year-old rheumatologist who previously practiced at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Faulkner Hospital, now faces 81 new charges following a Suffolk County grand jury indictment...

Hold on fast — Allston’s newest seafood outpost wastes no time. Holdfast Specialty Seafood Co. is fast-casual in service and fine-dining in execution. Here, high-quality menu items are served in paper boats at counter seats, executed with the kind of craftsmanship usually reserved for white tablecloths and dimmed lighting.

BOLTON, VT — Vermont State Police arrested a Massachusetts woman early Saturday after she was reported driving the wrong way on Interstate 89. Troopers responded to a report of a wrong-way driver traveling northbound in the southbound lane of Interstate 89 near mile marker 71 at 12:21 a.m. April 19.

Former Massachusetts police officer Matthew Farwell wants some evidence to be tossed out in the case against him over the death of Sandra Birchmore. The former Stoughton officer is charged with killing the 23-year-old Birchmore while she was pregnant and arranging the scene to look like a suicide. He has pleaded not guilty to federal charges filed against him in that case...

There’s an art museum in Boston where the frames hang empty on the walls, and nobody’s allowed to move them. It sits inside a Venetian-style palazzo in the Fenway neighborhood, and the woman who built it spent a full year arranging every object inside by hand. She died...

Annaliz said she didn’t fully realize what happened until she approached another driver who pulled over.

BOSTON, Mass. -- Dalton's Alex White ran a time of 2 hours, 12 minutes, 3 seconds to lead the county's contingent at the Boston Marathon on Monday. White, 24, placed 82nd overall with a mile pace of 5:23. The 130th running of the marathon produced a course-record time of 2:01:52...