Massachusetts

Let our meteor season begin! Early January through April, the sky is pretty quiet from any meteor showers.  Now, that changes as we have our annual Lyrid meteor shower kicking off a bunch of meteor shower events this year. This shower is caused by debris from a passing comet named Comet Thatcher that comes around every year. But don’t......

A judge has ruled that Adam Montgomery, convicted of killing his 5-year-old daughter Harmony, must appear in person for his upcoming sentencing after he didn’t attend his trial.

As clear skies are overhead, there is a chill to the air Monday, but it’s a seasonable spring day. Very fitting as Earth Day is celebrated across the globe. Earth Day pre-dates the Environmental Protection Agency, and first celebrated in 1970. It was first put forth by Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson, and done to mark the importance of clean ai...

A Southbridge, Massachusetts, man accused of kidnapping a child at a Webster beach and assaulting her last week was held without bail Monday pending a dangerousness hearing. The incident happened on the Patriot’s Day holiday at Memorial Beach, Webster police said, adding that the girl was alone. Walter Fanion, 68, had a dog with him and start...

A man who was arrested and charged with kidnapping and rape over the weekend in Everett, Massachusetts, appeared in court Monday but had his arraignment delayed. Jersson Canales, 35, was arrested Saturday in connection with an incident that occurred earlier that day, Everett police said. The victim, they said, was safe and received medical treatmen...

Nineteen jurors have been selected to serve in the Karen Read trial, one of Massachusetts’ most closely watched legal sagas, as of Monday, but opening arguments appeared to remain days away.

College students across Boston are standing in solidarity with Columbia University students who have been protesting Israel’s actions in the ongoing war in Gaza. Members of the MIT, Tufts University and Emerson College communities started protesting Sunday, calling on administrators to take action. The conflict has left thousands dead after t...

A sunny start to the week with seasonable afternoons all week. Monday and Tuesday are looking bright, a reinforcing shot of cool air sweeping in from the north will make for some chilly mornings. Highs in the mid to upper 50s, lows in the mid to upper 30s. That cold air is the culprit to a lingering frost potential this…

An idea floated by the secretary for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation about adding tolls at the state’s borders has some people telling Monica Tibbits-Nutt she needs to pump the brakes. The MassDOT secretary was giving a keynote speech at a WalkMassachusetts gathering on April 10 when she talked about the need to get “aggr...

There was apparently chaos on the streets of Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood early Sunday morning. Boston police say around thirty 911 calls were made about the wild scene. According to a police report, one caller told police that there were about 40 people yelling and approximately 15 vehicles driving the wrong way in the surrounding area of ...

A person had to be rescued by firefighters after a fire broke out late Saturday night at a home in Somerville, Massachusetts. The Somerville Firefighters Union says a 911 call was made around 10 p.m. reporting the fire near a construction site on Dover Street. Fire crews arrived to find heavy fire at the back of a large, three-story home…....

According to authorities, officers recovered 459 plastic bags of crack cocaine (253 grams), 412 plastic bags of fentanyl (980 grams), about $7,977 in US currency, multiple plastic bags, gloves, masks, cutting agents, and drug paraphernalia.

A man was found dead Saturday night behind a Framingham, Massachusetts, business where he worked at a popular shopping plaza, authorities said. Framingham police officers were called to a Shoppers World business on Worcester Road about 10 p.m., where they found a man dead in the trash area behind the building, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Rya...