Franklin

Composting is on the menu at two schools in Franklin, Massachusetts.

No one has been charged or cited as so far in the investigation, police said, but state and local detectives were continuing to investigate what happened.

A person died after being hit by a truck in Franklin, Massachusetts, Friday morning, police said.

The overnight wintry storm turned out to perhaps be more of a reminder that winter is coming, rather than a true first test for snow plows. Like many other places in Massachusetts, snow was sticking on the grass in Fitchburg, but not so much on sidewalks or roads. Plows weren’t really needed after all. The salt and sand trucks...

As snow begins to fall in parts of New England, some towns are offering bonuses to incentivize people to plow.

Commuter trains were running up to an hour late on the MBTA Fairmount, Franklin and Foxboro lines Thursday afternoon after an incident at Readville Station in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood, the transit agency said. It wasn’t immediately clear what kind of incident prompted the delays, which appeared to involve Fairmount Line Train 929, headed outbound. It was stopped before...

A man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of destroying property in a case in which police in several Massachusetts communities warned the public about someone disabling young women’s vehicles and offering them rides home. Alexander Yee was arrested at his home in Winchendon on a warrant charging him with destruction of property worth more than $1,200 in Milford, Winchendon police…

Police in multiple Massachusetts communities are warning the public that a man has been disabling young women’s vehicles and offering them rides home. The Milford Police Department said in a Facebook post Saturday that a man in his late 30s has been flattening tires in the area and filling gas tanks with water. He is reported to have been...

School officials in Franklin, Massachusetts, are investigating after a report that fans hurled racist, antisemitic and homophobic slurs at high school athletes Thursday. In a letter addressed to the Franklin High School community Friday, Principal Joshua Hanna said the incident occurred a day earlier at a baseball game against Sharon High School. He said spectators watching from left field used…

It was a tense few hours in the Pleasant Street neighborhood in Franklin, Mass., on Saturday.

People in Franklin, Massachusetts, were asked to avoid a certain area of the town Saturday after a man barricaded himself inside a Pleasant Street home around 11 a.m. Franklin police said a 911 call came in just after 10:50 a.m. for a report of a man making suicidal statements at a residence on Pleasant Street. Officers learned the man made…

The Department of Public Works in Franklin, Massachusetts, is calling on all plow drivers. Like many other towns across the commonwealth, Franklin worries its staff will be stretched too thin to cover this weekend’s snowstorm. Nick Jolly and the folks at Aubuchon Hardware in Franklin have made sure to stock up on the season’s hottest items. Since Monday, “People...

Brendon Owen is accused of beating his ex-wife Shirley Owen to death at her Franklin home in December, then setting it on fire.

A man was killed Friday morning in an explosion at his home in Franklin, New Hampshire. The office of New Hampshire Fire Marshal Sean Toomey said the blast happened on New Hampton Road. Authorities responded just before 11:30 a.m. to find a male dead inside. The victim was identified Saturday as 44-year-old Nathaniel Krauz. An autopsy conducted Saturday determined his…

Franklin locals gathered at Franklin Common with candles and wearing purple to honor Shirley Owen and raise domestic violence awareness.

A candlelight prayer vigil was held Sunday night in honor of a woman allegedly killed by her ex-husband in her Franklin, Massachusetts home. The brutal attack that killed Shirley Owen, the mother of two children, was outlined in a southeastern Massachusetts court on Friday. Prosecutors say she was beaten to death by her former husband before he set fire to…

A brutal attack was outlined in a southeastern Massachusetts court on Friday: A woman allegedly beaten to death by her ex-husband before he set fire to her house a week before Christmas Eve. When officers arrived, having been called by the victim’s mother, Brendon Owen tried to escape, but they took him into custody, authorities said. They’d dealt with...

A man is accused of killing his ex-wife, with whom he has two children, after tying up her mother, then torching their home in Franklin.

A fatal house fire in Franklin, Massachusetts, on Friday morning is being investigated as a homicide. The fire was reported shortly after 8 a.m. on Grace Lane, according to the Franklin Fire Department.

A woman was found dead of blunt-force trauma at a home that was on fire in Franklin, Massachusetts, Friday morning, and her ex-husband was arrested at the scene, officials said. The woman had a restraining order out against her ex, whom Franklin police officers took into custody at the home on Grace Lane with the use of a Taser as…