Massachusetts

School violence has been in the spotlight during the past few months with stabbings, fights and threats in many Massachusetts schools. This comes in the wake of the pandemic and a shift in the way students are disciplined.  Many kids are struggling with their social-emotional health, peer pressure and the influence of social media. In some cases, this is...

The owner of a Brockton driving school paid thousands of dollars to a Massachusetts road test examiner to falsely pass several people who applied for driver’s licenses, federal prosecutors said Friday. Carlos Cardoso was arrested Friday on grand jury charges of honest services mail fraud and conspiracy, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts. The 70-year-old is accused...

The family of a teenage girl who was beaten to death more than 30 years ago in Groveland, Massachusetts, is fighting against her killer’s pursuit of parole. Richard Baldwin was convicted in the murder of 15-year-old Beth Brodie after he attacked her with a baseball bat in 1992. As Baldwin walked into his parole hearing on Thursday afternoon, a sea…

Attorneys for Steward Health Care want a federal judge to bless the company’s proposed process for selling or auctioning its 31 hospitals, including eight in Massachusetts, over the next seven weeks. A late Wednesday night filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court case that started last week proposes “global bidding and auction procedures” to govern the sale of Steward’s hospitals and its physician...

A Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media died from ingesting a substance containing a high amount of the chili pepper extract capsaicin, according to autopsy results. Harris Wolobah, a 14-year-old sophomore at Doherty Memorial High School in Worcester, died on Sept. 1, 2023, after eating the chip manufactured by Paqui, a Texas-based subsidiary…

President Joe Biden approved a disaster declaration that will help two Massachusetts communities affected by last year’s storm that caused severe flash flooding — reversing the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s decision in February. The storm impacted residents in Bristol and Worcester counties from Sept. 11 to Sept. 13, 2023. The severe flash flooding trapped people in their cars, left behind buckled…

It’s been 30 years since Stephen and Anne Brodie faced their daughter’s killer in court. Now, they’re getting ready to see him again at a parole hearing. Beth Brodie, the couple’s 15-year-old daughter, was savagely beaten in Groveland, Massachusetts, in 1992. Richard Baldwin, a 16-year-old, attacked her with a baseball bat inside a friend’s home down the street from...

The body of a Massachusetts hiker who’d been missing for nearly a month was found beneath a boulder in New Hampshire’s White Mountains Tuesday, officials said. William Neal Donovan, a 65-year-old avid hiker from Cambridge, was reported missing April 16. His car was located about two weeks later at the Crawford Path parking lot in Carroll. This weekend, hikers...

Speaking to a climate summit at the Vatican on Wednesday morning, Gov. Maura Healey announced that Massachusetts is partnering with a social impact investing firm to launch a climate technology workforce training fund, shooting for an initial $10 million combination of public, private and philanthropic dollars it can loan out. With ambitious mid-century emission reduction targets on the books, Massachusetts…

On another picture perfect day on Cape Cod, a Steamship Authority ferry bound for Martha’s vineyard from Woods Hole left right on time. But as the always-busy summer season picks up, there is worry about staffing shortages. The organization says it has just enough staff to operate all its ferries, which travel to the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey’s trip to speak at a Vatican climate summit this week will include an audience with the pope, but the governor also plans to tend to the Bay State’s business ties with Italy while she’s there. The governor’s Italian itinerary starts in Rome with an American Chamber of Commerce in Italy roundtable on Tuesday. Healey will...

State police were helping local officers in the area of the town dump, Randolph police said. There was a large police presence in the area.

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The judicial front in the long-running battle over Uber and Lyft’s treatment of Massachusetts workers has been a flurry of paperwork for nearly four years. That’s about to change.

A Massachusetts man who received the world’s first genetically-edited pig kidney transplant has died, his family announced Saturday.

The body of a Massachusetts man who was swept away by the current at a waterfall in Puerto Rico on Wednesday has been found, according to the authorities. Rescuers and emergency teams were searching for 28-year-old Alex DaLomba Tavares of New Bedford after he was swept away at the Gozalandia waterfall in the Municipality of San Sebastián. Daniel Cabrero...

Legislation paving the way for a soccer stadium in Everett scored a favorable committee report, and while the bill’s hometown sponsor is revved up about “getting everything going,” the bill appears to be on the Senate backburner for at least this month. Sen. Sal DiDomenico’s bill (S 2692), which seeks to change the designation for a blighted land parcel...

Dozens of police officers moved in on MIT’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Friday morning to dismantle a pro-Palestinian encampment and arrested 10 protesters, school officials said. Shortly after 4 a.m., police moved in and began taking protesters into custody, putting zip ties on them and loading them into at least one of the buses. Sally Kornbluth, MIT’s president, confirmed that 10...

The expansion of the Encore Boston Harbor casino in Everett, Massachusetts, has been suspended as the casino and city can’t come to terms over things like taxes and impact fees, Encore parent company Wynn Resorts said this week. Wynn had been seeking to build a new facility across Broadway from the $2.6 billion casino that opened in 2019 as the…

The clock is ticking for Massachusetts residents to get their Real ID-compliant driver’s license or identification card or passport if they want to board a plane next year. Anyone flying in the U.S. or entering a federal building will need a REAL ID or a valid passport starting May 7, 2025, the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles said. “The countdown…

Several shots were fired in Springfield, Massachusetts, earlier this week and now two teens have been arrested, according to NBC affiliate WWLP. The two 17-year-olds were arrested Wednesday, Springfield police said, and it all came down to their vehicle. The teens were allegedly involved in a chase with Chicopee police and three shootings in Springfield on Tuesday. After spotting the…