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A man was arrested Friday in a hit-and-run crash that badly damaged a boat on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee last summer, police said, but the case remains under investigation. Boaters on a 50-foot-SeaRay boat fled the scene after it crashed into a docked vessel in Wolfeboro’s Winter Harbor late Saturday, Aug. 12., according to New ...

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills on Friday signed into law a suite of gun safety legislation approved by lawmakers after the deadliest mass shooting in state history, expanding background checks for private sales of weapons, bolstering the state’s “yellow flag” law, criminalizing the transfer of guns to prohibited people and expanding mental healt...

A Massachusetts man who raped and killed his teacher when he was 14 years old has pleaded guilty in an assault on a different woman, which took place while he was in custody months later. Philip Chism was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole for the October 2013 killing of math teacher Colleen Ritzer at Danvers…

Montpelier, Vermont, woke up to a chilly Friday morning, tying the record low temperature for this date at 22 degrees Fahrenheit. This record was previously set in 1967 at Montpelier-Edward F. Knapp State Airport (KMPV), where records date back to 1949. The cold wasn’t isolated to Montpelier, as much of New England experienced a hard freeze. ...

Financial literacy – having the financial knowledge to understand money and your options for budgeting, saving and investing it – sounds like an essential education for any adult. But according to a December 2023 report by Ramsey, only 17% of U.S. adults said they took a personal finance class in high school, even though 72% of U.S. adu...

Two USPS mail carriers were robbed in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood Friday. Boston police said they were called to the first robbery on Mora Street around 11:10 a.m. Few details were immediately available. Just minutes later, around 11:35 a.m., officers were called to the intersection of Seldon and West Seldon streets for another. Investig...

A man has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a woman who was fatally shot at an apartment in Conway, New Hampshire, overnight. Connor J. Macleod, 24, is accused in the death of Alexis Leach, 23, at an apartment on Council Road, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. The shooting was reported about midnight Frida...

A woman was killed and a man seriously hurt in a pileup that temporarily shut one side of the Maine Turnpike Friday morning, police said. A car being driven by a man from Boston hit a minivan and a pickup truck in Wells at about 8:41 a.m., sending the truck rolling across the road, Interstate 95, Maine State Police said….

A man is accused of assaulting two hospital security guards in Providence, Rhode Island, overnight, according to NBC affiliate WJAR. Officers responded to the emergency room department at Rhode Island Hospital just before 2 a.m. following a stabbing incident, Providence police said. The two security guards were assaulted while escorting a patient o...

We had another widespread hard freeze across all of New England with freeze warnings Friday morning in southern New England and along the coast. Temperatures dropped to the 20s in many more spots compared to Thursday morning. This afternoon will be nice and sunny again thanks to high pressure settling in. Once the afternoon, sun warms us up a bit&#...

Four people suspected of orchestrating sophisticated break-ins of the homes of Indian and South Asian families across Massachusetts and beyond in recent years were arrested in Rhode Island Friday, authorities said. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan referred to them as “a very sophisticated ring of homebreakers” and said some of th...

A man is dead, and a woman is injured after an apartment building caught fire in Manchester, New Hampshire, late Thursday night. Crews responded to a fire involving several rear porches just after 10:30 p.m. on Village Circle Way, the Manchester Fire Department said. While firefighters worked on knocking down the fire and evacuating residents, a ma...

New England Patriots fans got to meet their new quarterback Friday at Gillette Stadium as Drake Maye was formally introduced to his new home. “Glad to come to an organization that knows how to win, has done it before,” Maye said on the field Foxborough. “Ready [to] get that back on track.” Maye was selected with the No. 3 pi...