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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...

Deyscha Smith LYNN — Lynn Fire Cpt. Ed Miles has many memories of legendary firefighter Rocco “Rocky” Brienzo. Growing up, Brienzo was both his Sunday School teacher and, after joining the Lynn Fire Department in 1949, went on to work alongside his father, George, on Engine Five at the Fayette Street Station in the...

QUINCY, MASS. (WHDH) - Firefighters are working through bitter cold to extinguish a house fire that broke out in Quincy on Sunday morning. Crews could be seen using ladder trucks to knock down flames in a large house on Pond Street. No additional information was immediately available. This is a...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Woburn, Massachusetts – Increased DUI enforcement near major roadways is planned Sunday evening as Super Bowl traffic rises across Middlesex County. According to the Middlesex Sheriff’s Office, deputies are...