Belmont

Belmont native Becca Pizzi has run 98 marathons, including the Boston Marathon. Now, Hannah’s getting the story of her remarkable ‘cool’ run across the world.

Learn how a Belmont woman attended and won the Antarctic Ice Marathon.

Two people were apparently shot Monday night in Belmont, Massachusetts, sparking a police investigation into the matter, according to authorities in the town. Police got two 911 calls reporting shots fired in a parking lot off Olmsted Drive around 5:20 p.m., according to a news release. Police found shell casings and a magazine at the scene, but they didn’t find…

A Massachusetts high school canceled classes Monday after receiving a phoned-in bomb threat. Belmont police and fire said they responded to a bomb threat made against Belmont High School around 10:30 a.m. after the school resource officer was notified of a threatening message that had been left on the school’s voicemail. A preliminary police investigation determined that the threat...

The NBC10 Investigators learned the Massachusetts Department of Labor Standards conducted an investigation where they concluded the Town of Belmont created conditions that placed “employees at risk of work-related injury or illness” during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the copy of an inspection report we obtained. In March of 2020, the Belmont Department of Health sent…

A boy who was last seen at a middle school in Belmont, Massachusetts, Wednesday morning was found safe, police said Thursday. The boy hadn’t been seen since about 9 a.m. at W L Chenery Middle School, local police said.

Three homes were broken into in Belmont, Massachusetts, early Monday morning, police say, warning residents of a pattern that the thief appears to be using. Four laptops and other valuable items were stolen in the Monday morning break-ins in homes on Adams Street, Madison Street and Watson Road, Belmont police said. The burglar is cutting through screens to get inside…

Belmont High School was closed Wednesday as police and fire officials investigated a bomb threat. Belmont police wrote on Twitter that the district decided to close school for the day “out of an abundance of caution.” Belmont Police Chief James MacIsaac said police were called about the threat around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. “At that time, the fire alarm was pulled…

William Hernando Usma Acosta, 61, was arrested by federal authorities on Wednesday in Belmont where he was living under an alias, the FBI said.

An elementary school in Belmont, Massachusetts, was temporarily evacuated on Thursday morning after an odor of natural gas was detected in one of the stairwells. Belmont police said students and staff were evacuated from the Butler Elementary School on White Street around 8:40 p.m. They were relocated to St. Luke’s church on Lexington Street for shelter from the rainy...

As the world watches the war in Ukraine, a Massachusetts woman has traveled overseas to show her support for some of its youngest refugees. Jennifer Hill, a mother of three from Belmont, is seeing the impact of the war first-hand. She is on the border of Ukraine and Romania, helping newborns and their parents get to safety. Hill arrived in…

Two people found dead separately in New Hampshire and Maine in September were with each other in a dumpster in their last moments, investigators announced Friday, outlining the tragic events that led to their deaths. Jessica Lurvey’s body was found at a waste transfer facility in Belmont, New Hampshire, on Sept. 9, while Matthew Schofield’s was found 12 days later…

Cleo Theodoropulos, a beloved member of the Skating Club of Boston, was honored at the skate to eliminate cancer event in Norwood, Mass.

The body of a woman was found among the contents of a waste disposal truck at a waste transfer station in Belmont, New Hampshire, the attorney general’s office said. The body of Jessica Lurvey 28, was found by Belmont police on Thursday and was discovered “when contents were being removed and separated” from the truck, the attorney general’s office...

A seven-story building was evacuated in Belmont, Massachusetts, over concern something in the structure could be unsafe.

A condo building has been evacuated in Belmont, Massachusetts, over its structural integrity, fire officials said Friday. Dealing with the building on Trapelo Road is an “ongoing effort,” said Glenn Clancy, a Belmont building inspector. Seventy-five people were Cracks were first spotted inside a sixth-floor condo a couple of weeks ago. “I noticed that it started spreading,” said Kurra, the…

With COVID cases rising in Massachusetts, the town of Belmont on Monday imposed a mask mandate for everyone 2 and older in all indoor spaces open to the public including bars, restaurants, barber shops, hair and nail salons, fitness centers and health care facilities, including congregate care settings. The mandate requires businesses to post the mask requirement but leaves it…

The town is one of the first in Massachusetts to bring back its indoor mask mandate for all as COVID cases climb.