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Cape Cod’s district attorney paid a $5,000 state fine, the Ethics Commission announced Wednesday, after breaching the conflict of interest law by advertising a campaign donor’s vacant apartments to his staff and directing an assistant prosecutor to write a positive press release about a motor vehicle altercation he was involved in. Both...

Remains that are believed to be human were found Wednesday afternoon in a residential area of Easton, Massachusetts, according to authorities. Officers responded around 12:50 p.m. to a report of “potential human remains” in a brook off Summer Street, Easton police said. Officers were seen in the yard of a house on Summer Street near Bla...

A driver accused of leading police on a chase through several towns and sending his truck crashing down a retaining wall in an attempt to escape was high on methamphetamine, Massachusetts State Police said Wednesday. The situation started around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday when police in Middleton began pursuit of a red pickup truck that was driving erratica...

A Massachusetts woman is charged with embezzling over $650,000 from a Brookline medical practice and using the funds to pay off her personal purchases at Louis Vuitton, Bloomingdales, Best Buy, Target and travel-related websites, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts. Kathleen Libby, 40, of Brookline, was charged Wednesday...

There are now no slow zones on the entire length of one MBTA subway line, the transit agency announced Wednesday.

The Biden administration approved over $80 million in debt relief on Wednesday to more than 3,500 Massachusetts borrowers who attended the Art Institutes, including the New England Institute of Art in Brookline. The federal debt relief for Bay Staters is part of a $6.1 billion student loan relief package to 317,000 borrowers who attended Art Instit...

Minute Man National Historical Park, Walden Pond and other historic places near Concord, Massachusetts, are threatened by the planned expansion of a private airfield, according to a major preservation group. The National Trust for Historic Preservation on Wednesday named the group of landmark sites, which also include Louisa May Alcott’s Orch...

A 23-year-old New Hampshire man was seriously injured after he was thrown from his car after a rollover crash on Interstate 93 north on Tuesday night. New Hampshire State Police said they responded to a crash around 7:48 p.m. Tuesday on I-93 north in Hooksett near mile marker 24. Initial reports said the car had gone off the road and…

We’re on the back edge of cloudy-skies and rain, but the sea breeze means another day of cooler conditions in the 50s at the coast. The afternoon will features sun, which helps areas across MetroWest and Middlesex County, touch the upper 50s and near 60°. Wednesday night will be muggy at times and Thursday will start with areas of fog…....

Court is not in session Wednesday, meaning there will be no testimony in the high-profile Karen Read murder trial. Testimony is scheduled to resume on Thursday at 9 a.m. Read is charged with second-degree murder in the 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. He was found in the snow outside fellow Boston Police O...

Boston is no stranger to redevelopment — from the Seaport to the South End, the city has seen major transformations over the past decade. One of the next areas slated for reinvention? A stretch of Dorchester Avenue in South Boston between the Andrew and Broadway Red Line stops. The On the Dot development is slated to bring housing, retail, parks,&#...

The Northwestern District Attorney’s Office says it will announce a major breakthrough in an unsolved 1989 homicide in Warwick, Massachusetts, at a press conference Thursday morning. The press conference is scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday. The district attorney’s office did not release additional details about the case, saying only that ...

A man wanted in connection with a shooting inside of a western Massachusetts high school turned himself in to police, according to NBC affiliate WWLP. Chantz Dudley, of Harford, Connecticut, turned himself in on Tuesday on two outstanding firearm warrants, Springfield police said. Dudley, 20, is accused of forcing himself into the High School of Sc...