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BOSTON, MA — The leader of a violent criminal enterprise that operated in Hampden County was sentenced Friday in federal court for directing the trafficking of large amounts of cocaine and crack cocaine throughout Western Massachusetts, as well as for possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. Vicente...

The park at Union Square has been named in honor of Kenneth Kelly, a hospitality expert who transformed the area and later died from esophageal cancer

LYNN, MA — Members of the Boston Police Human Trafficking Unit and the Lynn Police Department arrested a man on trafficking charges Wednesday. Miguel Cabrera, 34, of Lynn, was arrested by virtue of a warrant issued out of South Boston District Court for charges of Trafficking for Sexual Servitude and Deriving Support from Trafficking.

Amtrak service between Boston and New York was suspended Saturday morning after a highway on-ramp in Rhode Island partially collapsed Friday, sending debris onto the train tracks below. All trains on the route were canceled overnight and limited service was not expected to resume until late Saturday morning at the...

Police are investigating after two children were found dead inside a home in Wellesley on Friday night.

Dos Manos Kitchen has been popping up at festivals and breweries since 2020. It was long a dream of Edwin Orellana’s to turn his beloved Dos Manos Kitchen, a pupusa pop-up based in Somerville, into a restaurant. This spring, his aspirations will finally become reality as Dos Manos moves into the Charles River Speedway.

For the Friday Forgotten 45 at 3:45 we honor a sacred Massachusetts holiday, April 24th is New Kids on the Block Day! So in celebration today’s Forgotten is from NKOTB with “I’ll Be Loving You (Forever)”. In 1989 Governor Mike Dukakis proclaimed that April 24th will...

Two men from Peabody and Lowell were arrested this week and are facing charges after two separate knifepoint robberies in Salem earlier this month, police said. The suspects, identified as 61-year-old John McCabe of Peabody and 49-year-old Edgar Morales of Lowell, are being held without bail ahead of dangerousness hearings scheduled for next week.

First Cambridge Realty Corp. and The Block, the Natick Center retail development across from the Common, issued an open letter to the community on social media this week to ensure the public that The Block is really coming along. “We’re making steady progress and remain focused on moving things forward thoughtfully and responsibly,” according to the post, which included no specifics about opening dates...

A road rage incident on the North Shore is believed to have spilled over to a Lynn car wash on Friday.