Massachusetts

Video shows a scaffolding plank falling inches from a person walking into Boston’s South Station last week.

Authorities announced an arrest Wednesday in a nearly 46-year-old double murder in western Massachusetts. Timothy Scott Joley, 71, of Clearwater, Florida, was arrested for the 1978 murders of Theresa Marcoux and Mark Harnish, Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said at a news conference. The bodies of Marcoux, 18, of East Longmeadow, and Harnish, 20, of South Dennis, were found outside...

Heavy flames and thick smoke roared through two triple-deckers on Union Street in Southbridge early Wednesday morning, threatening to catch a third on fire. “I started knocking on everybody’s door, knocking on the windows, get out, get out there’s fire, fire, fire!” said a neighbor who helped others escape. The fire was first reported at 3:25 a.m. Thankfully, the smoke alarms...

A Massachusetts Air National Guard member who pleaded guilty to leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday.

Bright lights are drowning out a new Donald Trump image projected onto a water tower in Hanson, Massachusetts. The town previously brought in lights to cover up a resident’s projection of a “Trump 2024” sign, saying last month that the effort had cost roughly $3,600. Wednesday, after Trump was elected to a second non-consecutive term in office, NBC10 Boston captured...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts spoke after winning a third term on Tuesday.

The cause of a massive fire that destroyed the former Anthony’s Cummaquid Inn in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, on Sunday remains under investigation, officials say. Yarmouth fire officials posted an update on Facebook saying the fire’s cause remains undetermined and is currently under investigation. They said fire crews remain on scene Monday morning. The fire department said it received a call around...

The first installment in Vanity Fair’s long-awaited profile of Karen Read dropped on Tuesday morning. Part 2 is scheduled to be released on Wednesday. Karen Read is ready to speak. This summer, after her first murder trial ended with a hung jury, Read spoke to VF about her late boyfriend John O’Keefe, and what she and her legal team allege...

The 17-year-old student and social studies teacher at odds over the issue both took the stand in federal court Tuesday.

Two Nantucket fishermen made a life-saving catch this weekend, saving a frantic fellow fisherman clinging to what was left of his capsized boat.

The purple holiday pail is “illustrated with a sweet Halloween motif” of round-shaped, costumed creatures.

Editor’s note: Some readers might find the images included in this story disturbing. Orleans police shared three photos of the shark on Facebook on Tuesday, showing the dead shark on the back of a flatbed truck. “Not one of our typical calls for service,” the department said. “Not is it one for our local duty tow, Nauset Recovery. But, as...

Tributes are continuing to pour in for for the matriarch of the Kennedy family. Ethel Kennedy, the wife of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who raised their 11 children after he was assassinated and remained dedicated to social causes and the family’s legacy for decades thereafter, died Thursday at the age of 96, just a few days after suffering a stroke….

A man accused of trying to kidnap a teenage girl at the Boston Museum of Science last weekend appeared in court Friday morning, where it was revealed that he has an extensive criminal history. The details are quite disturbing. According to police, they have the suspect on camera going into the bathroom. The 15-year-old girl unknowingly went in after, and…

Ethel Kennedy, the widow of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and matriarch to the dynastic Kennedy family, suffered a stroke last week.

Kennedy family matriarch Ethel Kennedy is recovering after she suffered a stroke, her family said Tuesday.

Ethel Kennedy, the widow of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke last week, family said Tuesday.

The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA.

The Project Skydrop statue was found in Massachusetts, but the winner — who can claim an $87,600.00 bounty — has yet to come forward. Here’s what the founders say.

A woman accused of operating a high-end brothel network with wealthy and prominent clients in Massachusetts and the Washington, D.C., suburbs pleaded guilty in federal court Friday.