Police interrupted what appeared to be a very lively dinner party among some raccoons in a dumpster in Brewster, Massachusetts, on Tuesday. The gathering featured seven adult raccoons, a record for the Cape Cod town, according to the local police department.

Among the 9 people killed in a helicopter crash that also killed retired NBA star Kobe Bryant, was a former Cape Cod Baseball League coach from Brewster, Massachusetts.

A 32-year-old bicyclist was critically injured in a hit-and-run in Brewster, Massachusetts.

Firefighters successfully rescued two pet dogs from a fire in the basement of a home in Brewster, Mass., overnight.

Two pet dogs were successfully rescued from a housefire in Brewster, Mass. overnight.

Three people were hospitalized early Tuesday after an ambulance and a minivan were involved in a crash in Brockton, Massachusetts. The crash was reported at about 12:45 a.m. near North Main and Battles Streets, officials said.

Police in Massachusetts have released the name of the 7-year-old boy struck and killed by a piece of heavy equipment last weekend. Damien Larsen, a second-grade student in Brewster, died when he was struck by skid-steer loader while at his grandfather’s Harwich home on Saturday.

Police are investigating a fatal crash involving a vehicle and a motorcycle in Yarmouth, Massachusetts.

A teacher at Stony Brook Elementary School in Brewster, Massachusetts, was arrested and charged with sexual misconduct involving at least two students.

They may not be mad about reefer, but a growing number of Massachusetts communities are leaving their borders open to commercial marijuana businesses, bucking a wave of bans and moratoriums that followed voter approval of legal recreational pot. Recent votes in several cities and towns against prohibitions on pot shops have cheered advocates for the nascent cannabis industry who say…