A man suspected of a carjacking in Vermont was shot by a state police trooper in Massachusetts Friday morning as he drove at the officer, authorities said.
Boston Pride’s annual flag raising goes on. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Boston Pride flag raising hosted by Mayor Marty Walsh and the City of Boston is being held as a virtual event since all of Boston Pride’s public events were postponed until 2021. You can watch the virtual event in the video above. You...
Boston set aside another $5 million dollars in relief money for renters who lost their incomes and are not eligible for unemployment benefits amid the coronavirus crisis.
Waking up to thunderstorm is a rather rare event in New England, but it is most common when there is a warm front coming through and that is the case today. In some cases, we’ve had downpours with gusty wind and lightning. Most of the action is shifting out to sea early this morning, leaving us a mixture of...
An 82-year-old veteran holding a Donald Trump sign was pushed to the ground and kicked in the ribs and legs by a man who first ripped the sign from his hands and tore it in half, police in Massachusetts said. Aidan Courtright, 27, of Fall River, is charged with committing a civil rights violation with injury; assault and battery on…
Like George Floyd, he was black, in his mid-40s, and died at the hands of a white man. And like Floyd, he may have helped touch off a revolution. Many in the Black Lives Matter movement are invoking Crispus Attucks — an African American gunned down by a British soldier in the Boston Massacre of 1770 — as a symbol…
A milder air mass is in place this morning so temperatures in northern New England, where we have been dealing with frost the past three mornings, are finally above freezing making it a more comfortable start to the day across the entire region. Today will be a summery day under a mostly sunny sky with highs well into the 80s…
A tiny town in Maine is getting ready for an intense national spotlight.
Businesses were damaged and police officers were injured in a protest against police brutality in Brockton, Massachusetts, that grew violent overnight.
Firefighters from North Attleborough and Plainville responded to a three alarm fire Wednesday morning at 174 North Washington St., North Attleborough. More than 15 people are displaced due to the fire, according to the Red Cross of Massachusetts.
If you live in northern New England, you probably had to check the calendar this morning. Temperatures started off in the upper 20s and low 30s. This unseasonably cool weather will retreat back to Canada over the next day or two. It turned into a pretty nice afternoon with temperatures reaching the 60s and low 70s for most. With a…
A protest against police brutality in Brockton, Massachusetts, grew violent Tuesday night as demonstrators shot fireworks at officers, who deployed pepper spray and tear gas.
A retired firefighter put some of his old skills to use in helping to rescue a man who’d fallen into a trench at a Massachusetts golf course Tuesday. Peter Fulton, who served as a firefighter in Concord for 35 years, was golfing Tuesday morning at Concord Country Club when he witnessed a town worker fall 20 feet into a trench…
While lawmakers in Vermont hash out details of a proposed rescue plan for businesses hit hard by Covid-19, some of the people that program would help issued an urgent plea for help Tuesday. A coalition of businesses said their bills are piling up so high that some may not make it out of the crisis without faster action. “We’re...
If you live in northern New England, you probably had to check the calendar this morning. Temperatures started off in the upper 20s and low 30s. This unseasonably cool weather will retreat back to Canada over the next day or two. It turned into a pretty nice afternoon with temperatures reaching the 60s and low 70s for most. With a…
