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Police in Vermont are looking for a missing 63-year-old man from Bristol. Vermont State Police say Walter Rusch was reported missing from his home at 5:45 p.m. Friday. According to police, Rusch was last seen at home overnight Thursday into Friday but was gone by 6 a.m. Rusch is believed to be on foot and may have been spotted walking…...

Hundreds protested in Boston on Saturday, calling for justice and change following last weekend’s police shooting death of Daunte Wright. Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter during an April 11 traffic stop in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota — just miles from where Geor...

Chaim Bloom and Alex Cora deserve credit for how the Red Sox offseason acquisitions have played this season.

Health officials in Massachusetts reported another 1,694 coronavirus cases on Saturday, pushing the state’s total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases over 630,000. Ten new deaths were also reported. The latest update from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health puts the total number of confirmed cases at 630,206 and the death toll at 17,...

Massachusetts reached a big vaccination milestone on Saturday. More than 2 million Bay State residents have been fully vaccinated. Gov. Charlie Baker shared the news in a tweet, thanking health care workers for the state’s continued vaccination success. According to Saturday’s COVID-19 vaccine data from the state’s Department of P...

A woman is dead and a man is seriously injured after an early morning house fire in Maine on Saturday. Firefighters responded to the home on Bear Mountain Road in Fairfield around 3:40a.m. Authorities believe the person who died in the fire is 56-year-old Rebecca Merrifield, a resident of the home, but are awaiting DNA results to identify the......

Starting Monday, anyone over the age of sixteen will be able to make an appointment to get the coronavirus vaccine in Massachusetts, one of the last states to make shots available to the general adult population. All residents can preregister to book an appointment at a mass or some regional vaccination sites at mass.gov/COVIDVaccine. &nb...

One parent jumped from a third-floor apartment building balcony to the one below and the other handed off their child before escaping from a fire that had trapped people inside, firefighters in New Hampshire said. The fire was at The Pines Apartments in Concord early Friday. Firefighters rescued residents using ladders from the ground and a tower-l...

Friday’s spring storm brought much needed rain and even record snow for Worcester, Massachusetts, where 6.8 inches of snow fell, smashing the previous record of 2.4” set in 1992. Eastern New England is still feeling the effects of this storm that continues to linger offshore.  Spotty rain showers are possible Saturday afternoon with temperatur...

Gov. Phil Scott has announced that Vermonters age 16 to 18 can start signing up for COVID-19 vaccine appointments on Saturday, a few days earlier than originally planned. Vaccine eligibility for all Vermonters 16 and older opens Monday. This week the state opened registration to people 30 and older. As of Friday morning nearly 18,000 in that age gr...

Vehicle inspections resumed Saturday at most Massachusetts inspection stations following a malware attack on the vendor technology that issues inspection stickers. Applus Technologies, the vendor used in the commonwealth and several other states, was hit by a cyberattack on March 30, which suspended its inspection stations from operating. The issue...

Our wintry storm continues to linger offshore and will affect our weather for today.  We have some spotty rain and snow showers this morning and temperatures are in the 30s.  This afternoon we have clouds around and more showers develop in the heat of the afternoon and along the outer band of this storm.  Higher elevations will continue to see&#823...

A white Massachusetts police officer who authorities say assaulted her husband and threatened her son’s Black friend in a heated dispute over the Black Lives Matter movement is now facing criminal charges. The Boston Globe reported a district court clerk magistrate ruled Thursday there’s probable cause for criminal charges against Patri...