Massachusetts

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.

Two men are facing charges including assaulting a police officer after a fight broke out at The Big E fair in western Massachusetts on Monday night. West Springfield police said officers working inside The Big E responded to a report of a fight in progress around 10:13 p.m. in front of the Brooks Building near Gate 5. When they got…

All eight bulls that broke free this weekend from a pen at a rodeo being held in a parking lot along Route 1 in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, have now been captured. The bulls got out of their smaller pen, jumped over the fence and took off. One bull was caught right away, but seven others ran through traffic, by several…

Dozens of horses are safe after a fire in a barn at the Big E and the cause of the fire is under investigation. Officials said the fire was reported in the C Barn after the Big E closed on Friday. Firefighters said they arrived to the area and found a working fire in the barn around 11:45 p.m. All…

An investigation is ongoing after a Massachusetts State Police recruit died last week, one day after authorities say he became unresponsive and suffered a “medical crisis” during a defensive tactics training exercise. Enrique Delgado-Garcia, 25, died at a hospital on Friday, a day after the exercise at the Massachusetts State Police Academy in New Braintree, according to state police. A…

Two people were arrested and multiple people injured in a brawl at The Big E fair over the weekend. West Springfield police said multiple Big E patrol officers, Hampden County Sheriff’s deputies and West Springfield detectives were called to Industrial Avenue on the fairgrounds around 5 p.m. Saturday for a report of a large fight with injuries. Upon arrival,...

Massachusetts State Police trainee Enrique Delgado-Garcia was sworn in as a trooper shortly before his death, a department spokesman said, some of the new information shared on Delgado-Garcia’s death Saturday. Police have not shared more about the training exercise they’ve said that Delgado-Garcia was seriously injured as a part of. Delgado-Garcia’s family has questioned how the 25-year-old could have...

Nearly a year after fleeing the U.S., a Kenyan man accused of murdering his girlfriend pleaded not guilty Tuesday and was ordered held without bail. Kevin Adam Kinyanjui Kangethe was wanted for allegedly killing his girlfriend, Margaret Mbitu, whose body was found in an SUV at Boston Logan International Airport on Oct. 31. She was reported missing by her family….