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BOSTON, MA — Mass General Brigham Health Plan is removing Dana-Farber Cancer Institute from its Medicare Advantage network starting Oct. 1, a change that will affect about 1,000 patients. For people who have spent years building care routines around Dana-Farber, the decision means new questions about coverage, medicati

A Boston pediatric trauma surgeon is warning that young riders are suffering increasingly severe injuries on vehicles she says many are too young to handle.

Open Tue–Thu 11 AM–9 PM, Fri 11 AM–10 PM, Sat 4 PM–10 PM (closed Sun–Mon) Down a quiet stretch of downtown Peabody, Massachusetts, sits a restaurant that has never needed neon signs or trendy branding to keep its tables full. Petrillo’s Italian Kitchen has been...

A revered Boston-area bakery brand known for its creative seasonal doughnuts has expanded to the South Shore. Union Square Donuts officially opened a new location at the Derby Street Shops in Hingham on Sept. 2, according to an Instagram post from the company and the shopping plaza. “We’ve heard all...

Community members in Brockton, Massachusetts, came together Monday after a tragedy overseas. A bus crash this weekend in Cape Verde killed 25 people. Most of the victims were teenagers. In Brockton — which has one of the highest concentrations of Cape Verdeans in the United States — people gathered for...

A man who was killed Friday in a head-on crash in a Massachusetts town has been identified. At about 11:15 p.m., a utility truck collided with a pickup truck near 961 Washington St. in Dedham. The driver of the pickup truck was pronounced dead at the scene. On Monday, the...

Although a man is facing charges in connection with the death this summer of his stepson, Moliere Desrosiers says accountability isn’t enough for him and his family. Jonathan “Joe” Sanon, 35, “the son every father wishes they could have,” was killed near the Boston Common in late July in what law enforcement has called

TEWKSBURY, MA — A Texas couple is facing multiple firearms charges after Tewksbury police say a hotel-room call led officers to a stockpile of weapons, ammunition and explosive devices. Francho Bradley and Adrianne Jennings, both of Frisco, Texas, were arrested after police say they found high-powered guns in their hot

The car was found on a different level of the parking garage with items taken from it.

Thousands of common nighthawks are streaming over the Charles, Mystic and Connecticut River valleys this week, part of an annual migration that draws crowds to spots like Mount Auburn Cemetery and Fresh Pond even as the birds have all but stopped nesting in Massachusetts. The slender, long-winged birds are on the move