Massachusetts

We had another widespread hard freeze across all of New England with freeze warnings Friday morning in southern New England and along the coast. Temperatures dropped to the 20s in many more spots compared to Thursday morning. This afternoon will be nice and sunny again thanks to high pressure settling in. Once the afternoon, sun warms us up a bit&#...

Four people suspected of orchestrating sophisticated break-ins of the homes of Indian and South Asian families across Massachusetts and beyond in recent years were arrested in Rhode Island Friday, authorities said. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan referred to them as “a very sophisticated ring of homebreakers” and said some of th...

New England Patriots fans got to meet their new quarterback Friday at Gillette Stadium as Drake Maye was formally introduced to his new home. “Glad to come to an organization that knows how to win, has done it before,” Maye said on the field Foxborough. “Ready [to] get that back on track.” Maye was selected with the No. 3 pi...

Protests over the Middle East war continue at schools in Massachusetts and across the country. In Boston, students are demonstrating at Emerson College, Harvard University, MIT and Tufts University. Northeastern University students are now also joining in on the protests. There was visible police presence at the pro-Palestinian encampment on Northe...

Temperature forecasts from here into next week are riddled with pitfalls, surprises and shades of disappointment. We’re certain that the warmup is on the way but for some along the coast, it will be muted by the sea breeze. That’s typical for early spring, but forecasting it’s every whim is a study in patience and timing. We&#8217...

A dead whale has washed up on a beach in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The humpback whale was spotted on Preston Beach Thursday afternoon. “Seacoast Science Center, Tufts University, town officials and NOAA Fisheries are working together this morning to evaluate options for examination of the carcass,” a spokesperson for NOAA Fisheries sai...

A Massachusetts man who was just 14 when he raped and killed his teacher over a decade ago is planning to change his plea in an assault that allegedly happened while he was in custody months later. Philip Chism was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole for the October 2013 killing of math teacher Colleen Ritzer…

A New Hampshire man who pleaded guilty to a charge tied to a plot to extort Harvard University for bitcoin by making bomb threats was sentenced Thursday. William Giordani, 55, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was arrested last year on charges including making an extortionate bomb threat. That charge was dropped, and in January he pleaded guilty in fed...

A Massachusetts man who was 19 years old when he drowned his father in a Duxbury pond has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Jack Callahan, now 22, told police in 2021 that he tried to exorcise a “demon” from his father, 57-year-old Scott Callahan, by baptizing him at Island Creek Pond. The Plymouth County District Attorney&#82...

A man was fatally shot in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Wednesday night and his suspected killer was arrested, authorities said. Jason Rivera was charged with murder and is being held without bail, the Essex District Attorney’s Office and Lawrence police said in a statement Thursday. The shooting took place on or near Margin Street on Wednesday ev...

A former Massachusetts firefighter who ran a dog training and boarding facility in South Boston where he allegedly abused animals will be on probation for two years after pleading in the case, prosecutors said Thursday. Tyler Falconer, who used to own Falco K9, on Wednesday pleaded to a continuance without a finding on two count of animal cruelty b...

Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden paid a $5,000 civil fine for violating conflict of interest laws during the 2022 Democratic primary election, according to the State Ethics Commission. The violation concerns the Democratic primary for the Suffolk County District Attorney race, which Hayden won over then-Boston city councilor Ricardo Ar...

The Boston bouncer who stabbed a 23-year-old Marine veteran to death in March of 2022 pleaded guilty to manslaughter during a hearing Thursday morning in Suffolk Superior Court. Alvaro Omar Larrama, who was a bouncer at the former Sons of Boston bar on Union Street near Faneuil Hall, was charged in the killing of Daniel Martinez. Martinez was from ...