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Dr. Charles Daniels, Jr. talks about why he founded the Dorchester-based “Fathers’ UpLift’ program.

A Massachusetts father is being held without bail after he allegedly brought a handgun to a Worcester high school to confront a boy who he’d been told hit his daughter. Jerome Weekes, a 41-year-old from Canton, was in Worcester District Court Monday after his arrest last week. He was seen Wednesday afternoon searching the hallways and a classroom at...

A man fatally shot his 12-year-old son, who was visiting him, then killed himself at his home in New Hampshire on Wednesday, authorities said. The boy lived in Vermont and was visiting his father and grandparents at their home in Hinsdale when the shooting took place, according to an announcement Thursday from New Hampshire state prosecutors and state police, as…

Two people have died in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, in what officials called “suspicious” circumstances, authorities said Wednesday. They identified the people who died as David Lent, 47, and his 12-year-old son Tyler Gilbert. The shooting took place about 12:53 p.m. at a home on Plain Road in Hinsdale, state and local authorities said. It wasn’t immediately clear how the father…

A man from Maine used Will Ferrell’s role, Buddy, from the modern holiday classic movie “Elf” as inspiration for the moment he met his biological father for the first time at Boston’s Logan International Airport.

A father and son from Rhode Island are facing numerous drug charges after police say they found fentanyl, cocaine, marijuana, anabolic steroids and equipment used in the manufacture and distribution of drugs during a search of their home. John Ferreira, 61, and Tyler Ferreira, 24, both of Warwick, were freed on bond following initial court appearances, state police said Monday….

A man and his 8-year-old son were injured Wednesday when they were hit by a car driven by a teenage relative in Bedford, New Hampshire. Police and firefighters responded to the pedestrian crash at about 7:15 a.m. in the area of 169 Back River Rd., according to officials. There, they learned the 47-year-old man and his child were walking toward...

The father of two Parkland school shooting survivors was fatally shot at his own convenience store during a robbery.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department requested information related to the murder of Tristan Beaudette, who was shot and killed on June 22 while camping with his two daughters in Malibu Creek State Park near the 1900 block of Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas.

In 2014, Connecticut native Tucker West became the youngest ever to compete on the U.S. Olympic luge team.

The mix-up began on May 6 when a man was found dead behind a Verizon store in Fountain Valley. Kerrigan, 82, of Wildomar, said he called the coroner’s office and was told the body was that of his son, Frank M. Kerrigan, 57, who is mentally ill and had been living on the street.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has charged a father and son with possession of child pornography.