Massachusetts

A man already in jail in the killing of a man found in a burning car in Hartford is pleading guilty to killing three other people, all in Springfield, Massachusetts, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Calvin Roberson is set to plead guilty to manslaughter for the 2006 death of a woman working at a nail salon, a man found shot in the…

As Boston holds solemn remembrances on the fifth anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings that left three dead and more than 260 others injured, take a look back at the key events that led to the attack on April 15, 2013, and how authorities sought justice in the aftermath.

Two people are dead after an early-morning fire in a single-family home in Springfield, Massachusetts. The fire was reported around 2:30 a.m. in a 2-story home on East Street. Fire officials confirmed to WWLP that two people died. Their names have not been released, but the state fire marshal’s office said they were “older adults”...

A 19-year-old was killed after he was hit by a truck in a remote corn field in western Massachusetts over the weekend. Jesse Johansmeyer, of Florence, died early Saturday morning at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office said. Johansmeyer was hit by a pickup truck around 11:30 p.m. after a bonfire ...

A police officer working a road detail was injured when he was struck by a car on Tuesday morning in western Massachusetts. Westfield police said on Facebook that one of their officers was hit by a car while working a road construction detail. He was taken to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. His condition was not immediately known, but polic...

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.