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A hiker from Massachusetts who became lost on a New Hampshire trail on Monday is the sixth Bay State resident rescued on local mountain trails in a three-day period. Jonathan Gullotti, 56, of North Reading, Massachusetts, was rescued Monday night after he became lost off the Rocky Branch Trail in Bartlett, New Hampshire Fish and Game Department officials said in a statement on...

A tense standoff at an apartment on Chestnut Street in Chelsea wrapped up peacefully Tuesday after officers confronted a man armed with two knives near a neighborhood daycare. Nearby homes were briefly ordered to shelter in place and the daycare was evacuated as a precaution while police locked down the scene. The man eventually surrendered, was taken into custody, then transported to Massachusetts General...

A popular pub across the street from Boston’s Faneuil Hall has closed after more than half a century in business. Clarke’s, which opened in 1975 at 21 Merchants Row, closed its doors for good on Saturday, April 17, the Boston Globe reported. One of the bar’s owners, Stephen Miller, told the newspaper the owner of the unit foreclosed in June and while he and...

Prosecutors dropped charges last year against a Chelsea police officer who had been charged in connection with a domestic violence incident, court records show. Officer Michael Villanueva was charged with a felony count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and a misdemeanor count of assault and battery on a family/household member in connection with an incident last July. Roughly two-and...

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.