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A customer at a downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire, restaurant may have exposed other diners to COVID-19, according to the health department.

A customer at a downtown Portsmouth restaurant may have exposed other diners to COVID-19, according to the health department.

Crews responded to multiple manhole fires in Boston Monday morning, blocking access to a busy intersection. Police said the fires were reported in the area of 60 School St. sometime before 7 a.m. At the scene, crews uncovered a manhole and smoke emitted from underground. The immediate area was blocked off until further notice in the area of Tremont Street….

Boston police are asking the public to avoid one city street due to a water main break. The break was reported sometime before 6:45 a.m. on Blossom Street, which has been shut down from Charles Street to William Cardinal O’Connell Way. Pedestrians and commuters are urged to stay away from the area while crews work to repair the water main...

Boston police have released the name of the person of interest in the case of a missing 23-year-old Boston woman. Louis D. Coleman is suspected of kidnapping 23-year-old Jassy Correia. She was last seen over the weekend following an outing with her boyfriend and friends at Venu Nightclub in the city’s Theater District.

Two people were arrested early Tuesday after they allegedly carjacked a minivan in downtown Boston, according to police. Fifty-three-year-old Adrian Thompson of Dorchester adn 24-year-old Mahad Ali Farah-Haji of Charlestown are expected to be arraigned on carjacking charges in Boston Municipal Court on Tuesday. Boston police said a man told authorities he was parked on Surface Road just before 1:30...

President Donald Trump sought to assure opponents of abortion rights on Friday that he stands with them and would veto any legislation from a Democratic-controlled House that “weakens the protection of human life.”

A New Hampshire man faced a judge on Monday after he allegedly offered a young teen’s parents cash to “buy” their daughter before trying to drag her away at a popular tourist area in Boston on Sunday.

Four pedestrians were seriously injured by a vehicle that jumped a sidewalk after a two-car crash in downtown D.C. Tuesday afternoon that prompted witnesses to lift the car off the ground in an effort to free a woman underneath, authorities said.

The “Green Book” was more than a revolutionary way for African Americans to travel in this country; it was an economic engine for burgeoning entrepreneurs, particularly black women.

A construction worker on his second day on the job plummeted 53 stories to his death Thursday at a downtown Los Angeles high-rise slated to be the tallest building in the West, officials said.