The state of Maine has reported its first death from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday. The man in his 80s was from Cumberland County, the area seeing the most cases. He has not been identified due to privacy laws, the Maine CDC said. “This is a sad…

Maine health officials reported the state’s first coronavirus-related death on Friday. The governor is being asked to shut down the entire state.

The first COVID-19 death was reported Monday in the state of New Hampshire, according to health officials.

A woman fatally beat her male roommate with a tape dispenser, a shower rod and other items during a dispute inside their southern New Jersey home last month, authorities said. Mary Carbone, 56, was charged Wednesday with murder and four weapons offenses, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. It wasn’t known Thursday if she has retained an attorney....

A man in his 70s was killed in a one-alarm house fire in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

A woman fatally stabbed an 84-year-old man during an argument inside his Massachusetts home, then left the scene in the victim’s car, according to court documents in the case. Yiana Torres, 28, of Holyoke, was held without bail Tuesday after pleading not guilty to a murder charge in the death of Reginald Sanford in his Granby home. Jonah Goldsmith, Torres’…

A Boston mother arrested in connection to the death of her 2-year-old daughter is due back in court.

The number of alcohol-related deaths has grown rapidly in recent decades, according to a new analysis of death certificates, NBC News reports. The research, published Wednesday in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, is from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health.

IKEA has agreed to pay $46 million to the parents of a 2-year-old boy who died of injuries suffered when a 70-pound (32-kilogram) recalled dresser tipped over onto him, the family’s lawyers said Monday.

A 40-year-old mother was dead inside her Bronx apartment while her children slept in the next room, police sources say.

The man who was arrested after authorities responded to his wife’s apparent stabbing death in their Groton, Massachusetts, home was ordered held without bail at his arraignment Monday while he undergoes a psychiatric evaluation. Gregory Fairbairn, 62, was arrested Saturday evening after he called 911 to report an unresponsive female. At the scene, police located 57-year-old Mary Fairbairn, who had...

A 40-year-old mother was dead inside her Bronx apartment while her children slept in the next room, police sources say.

A doctor convicted in the death of a 6-month-old baby faces trial for her involuntary manslaughter charge.

Police in Manchester, New Hampshire are investigating what authorities called the suspicious “untimely death of a child” at a hotel. Authorities responded to an Econo Lodge on the city’s West Side at about 6 p.m. Monday after they received a call of an emergency involving a child. The child, who was only identified as a 1-year-old girl, was taken to...

A DoorDash driver who crashed her car after she was shot while making a food delivery in New Jersey has died, authorities say.

A body was found Saturday morning after a body was found on Short Beach near the life saving station in Nahant, Massachusetts.

The husband of a woman who died after having an asthma attack outside a Massachusetts hospital is working with lawmakers to keep the same thing from happening again. Thirty-four-year-old Laura Levis had called 911 while suffering from the asthma attack outside Somerville Hospital Sept. 16, 2016, but hospital staff couldn’t locate her. She was eventually discovered unresponsive on a bench...

The Massachusetts man whose wife died after having an asthma attack outside a Somerville hospital is working with lawmakers to keep the same thing from happening again.

Authorities have made an arrest in connection to a fatal stabbing in East Boston earlier this month.