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A Massachusetts woman says she had just dropped her son off at school when her ex-boyfriend ambushed her in her Lowell apartment. The woman was held against her will and raped Monday; her downstairs neighbor, Heng Tan, was found dead. Police say the woman’s ex-boyfriend, Hoeup Honn, had broken the mirrors on her car. She asked Tan to help fix...

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh is unveiling a legislative package he says will improve housing security. He says the goals of the 14-bill package he’s shipping to state lawmakers is to help preserve neighborhoods threatened by soaring housing costs, stabilize vulnerable households, support small businesses and removing barriers that keep people in poverty.

A Massachusetts man charged with fatally stabbing a kitten, taking a photo of the animal and throwing it in the trash has been held without bail. The Salem News reports that 43-year-old Peter Rice, of Salem, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges including animal cruelty and carrying a dangerous weapon.

A former employee for a private boarding school in Southborough, Massachusetts, appeared in court Friday after police say he threatened to shoot up the facility.

A former employee for a private boarding school in Southborough, Massachusetts, appeared in court Friday after police say he threatened to shoot up the facility last week.

An Oregon man who was caught on video harassing a bison in Yellowstone National Park was arrested in Glacier National Park in the third disturbance in less than a week at a national park, officials said Friday. Rangers looking for Raymond Reinke of Pendleton, Oregon, found him causing a disturbance Thursday evening at the historic Many Glacier Hotel in the...

A Massachusetts man accused of threatening to kill the jury during his first murder trial and slapping his lawyer in the face during the second has been sentenced to 18 years in prison as part of a plea deal.

Friends and family remembered a man who was stabbed to death by a sword-wielding attacker in an apparent race-fueled crime at a standing-room-only funeral on Saturday.

A federal appeals court has stopped the scheduled lethal injection of a former accountant set to die for fatally shooting his two young daughters in Dallas 15 years ago.

The father accused of throwing his 5-year-old daughter to her death from a Pinellas County bridge appeared in court.