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Five people were taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries amid a two-alarm house fire on Pond Street Sunday morning. The blaze left the home a total loss. Firefighters responded to a reported house fire at 59 Pond St. at approximately 6 a.m. Sunday, interim Fire Chief Gary Smyth said. Upon arrival,...

Marblehead is digging out from another foot (or so) or snow that hit Friday night and Saturday. That’s on top of the 21-plus inches that fell two weekends ago. The town had its crews out Saturday trying to clear the roads so emergency vehicles could get through, which is the priority. The challenge? Where to put all...

Over the last four years, Connor Wright has packaged and given away more than 16,000 care boxes — full of games, toys and necessities — to bring kids joy. Here, he shares his story with Woman’s World. So many people are suffering right now, thought 12-year-old Connor...

Kai I. Russell, a Crimson Editorial Editor, lives in Wigglesworth Hall. Cambridge’s shelter crisis has reached a tipping point. During the recent snowstorm, homeless shelters had no choice but to increase operational hours and exceed resident capacity. Cambridge’s Salvation Army took in an approximate 50 people on...

BOSTON (WHDH) - Green Line service has been suspended between Park Street and Government Center stations after a train derailed on Sunday. An eastbound train derailed as it entered Park Street around 2:30 p.m. near the station’s platform, according to the MBTA. There were no injuries and all 25...

WELLESLEY, Mass. (CNN Newsource/WCVB/WKRC) - A group of children were wheeled out of a daycare and loaded onto ambulances after an outbreak of rashes. "All minor superficial rashes, essentially that of something of a bad sunburn," said Fire Chief Steve Mortarelli with the Wellesley Fire Department. A group of...

BOSTON (WHDH) - A Boston man is facing an armed assault to murder charge in connection with a stabbing in Mattapan on Saturday night, police said. Officers responding to a report of a person stabbed in the area of 95 River St. found a person matching the description of the suspect walking toward them, according to...

QUINCY, MASS. (WHDH) - Two firefighters and two residents were taken to the hospital after a fast-moving fire rips through a large house in Quincy on Sunday morning, officials said. Crews responding to a reported structure fire on Pond Street around 6 a.m. found heavy fire spreading into the attic,...

FRAMINGHAM, MASS. — Two Framingham police officers who had been sidelined amid a misconduct probe are now off the force, their careers ending quietly after investigators concluded department rules and policies were violated. The Framingham Police Department confirmed Friday that the officers were removed following an...

— News and commentary about elsewhere covered by Quincy Quarry News. Snowbound? Plowed in? Suffering yellow snow? Snow-dazed?. If so, Quincy Quarry News has found a place for you to vent!. On City of Quincy’s homepage for its Department of Public Works’s webpage is a graphic snowflake website button to...