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Worcester's Massachusetts Academy for Math and Science just cracked the top three best public high schools in the nation, serving just 98 students in grades 11 and 12 with a laser focus on rigorous math and science.

Suspected Memorial Drive shooter Tyler Brown, confined to a wheelchair and still wearing a wrapping around his arm, appeared in Middlesex Superior Court Thursday for a Dangerousness Hearing to determine if he can be released. Brown has been held in custody since his arrest on May 11 th for allegedly opening fire on vehicles on busy Memorial Drive in Cambridge. Dramatic cell phone video recorded at the scene showed a man, allegedly Brown, firing a rifle into traffic on Memorial Drive. A total of

A 72-year-old man who helped carry out a murder-for-hire plot in Somerville nearly five decades ago has been denied parole after his initial parole hearing in March, with the Massachusetts Parole Board citing more than 100 disciplinary reports and admitted struggles with sobriety behind bars. Michael Fountain pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in January 1977 for his role in the October 1975 killing of Peter DiNatale and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Dinari, the last living lion at Boston's Franklin Park Zoo, was euthanized this week following a steep decline in his health, zoo officials announced Thursday. The 17-year-old male had outlived the typical lion lifespan, but caregivers noticed him growing lethargic and losing his appetite in his final days, and blood work revealed signs of chronic renal failure.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston office has removed Bryan Rafael Gomez from the United States, officials announced this week. According to a statement from ERO Boston, agents arrested Gomez on September 25. He is described as a criminal illegal alien and foreign fugitive...

There was a hazmat response to a plane that landed at Boston Logan International Airport on Thursday morning after an unknown substance was found onboard. Aerial footage from Logan shows a Delta plane parked at Gate E16 surrounded by two fire trucks and several other emergency vehicles. Massachusetts State Police...

Tech billionaire Michael Dell is reshaping his Boston real estate holdings.

A Plymouth man who was drunk and racing another car at 141 miles per hour on Route 3 when his Jeep flipped and killed his childhood sweetheart has been sentenced to 10 to 14 years in state prison. Anthony Bradley pleaded guilty to manslaughter while under the influence of alcohol and two lesser charges stemming from the August 2024 crash that killed 29-year-old Lauren Eldridge, a radiologic technologist and mother of a young daughter from Natick.

The 7-week-old kitten was found dodging traffic on I-93 last week. A 7-week-old kitten was rescued from traffic on I-93 North in Woburn last week, a local animal rescue said. A Good Samaritan rescued the kitten, which is now in the care of the Animal Rescue League of Boston, the organization announced Tuesday.

When residents at Bryant Terrace Apartments opened their mailboxes in August, some found lease renewal letters announcing significant rent increases on units long considered affordable — increases the board members controlling the nonprofit that owns the complex say they had no choice but to implement. This illustrates a structural dilemma facing older, historically affordable developments across the state: How can a nonprofit board battling runaway operational inflation, zero government subsidi