Massachusetts

Police in Springfield, Massachusetts, are trying to find the mother of a newborn boy found abandoned at a home over the weekend.

A man from South Hadley, Massachusetts, accused of murdering his father and then trying to set the house on fire has been indicted, the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office said Monday. Craig Weise, 35, is accused of killing his 70-year-old father David Weise in their shared home on Lawn Street on Sept. 9, 2022. Investigators allege he als...

A 23-year-old man is dead after he was stabbed multiple times in a western Massachusetts town early Tuesday morning. Easthampton police said they were called to a home on Culdaff Street shortly after 3 a.m., where they found a man suffering from multiple stab wounds, the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office said in a statement. He was take...

A pedestrian was hit by a car on the South Coast of Massachusetts Tuesday night, according to NBC affiliate WJAR. The crash happened before 6:30 p.m. on Sconticut Neck Road in Fairhaven. The driver stayed on scene and cooperated with the investigation, police told WJAR, while the person hit was taken to a nearby hospital. It remained unclear how ba...

NBC Sports Boston’s Tom Giles provides an explainer to the start of in-person sports betting in Massachusetts.

A 23-year-old man was charged with murder Monday morning in the deadly shooting at a shopping mall in Holyoke, Massachusetts, according to prosecutors in Hampden County, who also identified the man who died. Kenneth Santana-Rodriguez, who is from Springfield, was also charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon following the shooting Satu...

Leaders in Seekonk, Massachusetts voted Wednesday night to rescind the town’s appointment of its police chief, who now plans on filing a lawsuit against the community, according to NBC affiliate WJAR. Despite having around a year left on his contract, Seekonk Police Chief Dean Isabella was placed on paid leave earlier in the month, WJAR repor...

A man from South Hadley, Massachusetts, accused of murdering his father and then trying to set the house on fire pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Monday, according to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office. Craig Weise, 35, is accused of killing his 70-year-old father David Weise in their shared home on Lawn Street on Sept. 9, 2022....

Police in Portland, Maine have arrested a suspect in the recent murder of a 26-year-old man that occurred in the middle of a dense residential neighborhood. According to a news release from the city’s police department, 21-year-old Tristin Chamberlain of Portland has been charged in the murder of 26-year-old Tyler Flexon on November 29. C...