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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.

A blood test could determine whether coronavirus patients have a higher risk of dying, a new study shows. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital found that a routine test to measure blood cells, called red blood cell distribution width (RDW), is associated with an increased risk of death among COVID-19 patients. Patients whose levels were higher than normal had a mortality…

The second victim in a double shooting last week in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood has died from his injuries, according to police. David Martinez, 28 of Roxbury, was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after the shooting on the evening of Thursday, Sept. 17. Police found Martinez and Wildeny Tejeda-Mejia, 24 of Lynn, with gunshot wounds in a car near…

Authorities are investigating the death of a man in his early twenties in Auburn, Maine. The man was injured during a fight in a McDonald’s parking lot on Center Street just after 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. He was taken to Central Maine Medical Center and later pronounced dead. Multiple people drove away from the scene before police arrived. An autopsy...

Police are investigating after a man was stabbed to death on Wednesday night in Lowell, Massachusetts. Police were called to the area of Lemon Tree Food Shops on Appleton Street around 11 p.m. When they arrived, they found a man in his 30s suffering from apparent stab wounds. He was taken to Lowell General Hospital where he was pronounced dead….

A mother and grandfather who drowned in their backyard pool in New Jersey a week ago were trying to rescue an 8-year-old girl who had fallen in, police said.

Authorities are investigating the death of a man in his 20s who died after a reported fight outside an apartment complex in Auburn, Maine. Auburn Police responded to the area of 116 Hampshire Street shortly after 11 p.m. Wednesday after a 911 call about two men fighting.  The victim, a Maine man in his 20s, was taken to the Central…

Combined deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide in the U.S. plateaued in 2018 for the first time in two decades, according to a report published Thursday.

A federal report says Baseball Hall of Famer Roy Halladay had drugs in his system and was doing extreme acrobatics in his small plane when it crashed into Tampa Bay in 2017, killing him.

An employee at the Salem, Massachusetts, Market Basket store has died after battling the coronavirus. The company confirmed the worker’s death in a statement Tuesday, saying she had last worked in the store on March 26. Vitalina Williams’ husband said he was devastated by a loss that came shockingly fast. He said they both had to continue working because they…

A grocery store worker has died from COVID-19.

An employee of a Market Basket in Salem named Vitalina Williams died, her husband said, saying the pair both had to keep working because they had bills to pay.

Market Basket has announced additional social distancing measures that will take effect April 2, including limiting the number of customers shopping at one time.

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.