Investigations

An elected official in Townsend resigned from his position on Thursday, shortly after the NBC10 Boston Investigators started asking questions about the revocation of his drug and alcohol counseling license by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Chaz Sexton-Diranian had been serving as the chairperson of the Board of Selectmen, but it tur...

“It’s truly a Boston thing.”

When you brew a beer called Storrowed as a PSA to college students and your own truck gets “Storrowed,” “you kind of have to laugh,” Trillium’s co-founder tells us.

The NBC10 Investigators reviewed Massachusetts crash data and found that, even with increased attention and awareness, we’re heading for the highest number of “Storrowings” in the last 10 years.

When students at one Boston elementary school return to class, they will still not have something a lot of people might take for granted: walls and doors in their classrooms. For years, families at Blackstone Elementary School have heard various promises from district leaders, but have not seen results. Built in the in the 1970s as an open-concept ...

After a deadly accident at an industrial site in Sterling, Massachusetts, the NBC10 Investigators took a look at the company’s safety record. Brian Curtis Derby, a 67-year-old Townsend resident, was killed when a rock ledge collapsed on his excavator. Derby was a longtime employee of Onyx Corporation, which owns and operates the quarry where ...

The branch of the Department of Justice that polices bankruptcy cases is taking action against a Weymouth home improvement contractor who abruptly shuttered his business last year, leaving customers with a trail of unfinished projects. According to a recent complaint filed in federal court, the U.S. Trustee is objecting to the discharge of Liam McN...

Aging infrastructure in Massachusetts has faced the relentless forces of time and nature, with crumbling concrete, exposed rebar, and rusted steel visible on bridges across the state. What lies beneath the surface is equally crucial in determining the safety of nearly 8,000 bridges that residents rely on daily. Bill Colleran, an Underwater Operatio...

As he took a smoke break outside an extended stay hotel in Westborough, Massachusetts, it was pretty clear Russell Callahan was surprised to see an NBC10 Boston crew show up to expose the scheme he and his wife, Linda, have been pulling off for the past two decades. “We’ve been looking for you,” we announced as Russell Callahan dropped...

Despite owing thousands of dollars to victims and tallying at least 16 evictions on their record, a husband and wife have escaped any serious consequences for a pattern of behavior that includes bouncing checks and providing false documents to live rent-free in Massachusetts for the past two decades. So why have the Callahans, who are known in hous...

Some in the industry call the moment when there’s a critical need for an ambulance but no crew is available to respond “Level Zero,” and it’s happening more often across Massachusetts

The list of murder cases around the Boston area that could rely on the testimony of an embattled Massachusetts State Police trooper continues to grow. And that poses a big question: Will Michael Proctor’s damaged credibility prevent prosecutors from proving their cases to a jury? On Thursday, the NBC10 Investigators obtained a letter that the Norfo...

An NBC10 investigation found a husband and wife have defrauded small property owners for thousands of dollars, lived in homes rent free, and have been seemingly getting away with it for the past two decades. In housing circles, they are known as “professional tenants” because they make a living by scamming landlords. Some of those landlords are sha...