Grafton

A home in Grafton, Massachusetts, was partially demolished after it was heavily damaged by a car that slammed into it Wednesday afternoon. The car came careening into the building near the corner of Millbury Street and Providence Road around 3:45 p.m. John McNamara and his wife, Christine, were watching TV inside when they heard the crash. “It just sounded like…

Authorities are set to give an update on the search for the killer of Holly Piirainen, a 10-year-old girl whose body was found in the western Massachusetts woods nearly 30 years ago.

Authorities are set to give an update on the search for the killer of Holly Piirainen, a 10-year-old girl whose body was found in the western Massachusetts woods nearly 30 years ago.

Stay out of the Blackstone River as it flows through Worcester and several of its suburbs this weekend. The Boston Globe reported that officials in Worcester are asking people to avoid the river after nearly a million gallons of untreated and partially treated sewage spilled into the Blackstone early Thursday, which carries an increased risk of health risks from bacteria…

Police say they have found a man who had wandered away from a care facility in Grafton, Massachusetts. James Bailey, 62, wandered from a residential care facility near Pigeon Hill Drive on Thursday night. Grafton police announced Friday morning that he had been located and is safe. No further information was immediately available.

A Grafton, New Hampshire couple described a tense 45 minutes when they discovered a bear trapped in their mudroom. Eventually the husband had to climb out a window to get out of the house and open the outer door so the animal could escape.

Falmouth police identified the victim Monday as James A. Koshivos, 21, of Grafton.

A 21-year-old Massachusetts man has died after his car plunged into the ocean off Menauhant Beach in Falmouth early Sunday morning, police said. His name has not been released.

Every fisherman has their tale of the “one that got away.” But an ice fisherman from Millbury, Massachusetts, nearly landed quite the catch last week in Grafton. “I can still feel the adrenaline,” said Keith Poisant, “and thinking in my head, ‘My God, this is going to be a state record something.’” Poisant was ice fishing in Grafton’s Lake...

An ice fisher wrestled with an otter that he hooked in Grafton, and he captured the battle on camera

It’s an odor so strong, so putrid, that some people near the Grafton/Millbury line in central Massachusetts called police last month, thinking there might be an emergency. “It smells like burnt toast, but like rotten,” said Leighann Gagnon of Grafton. “We were actually searching in the area for any dead livestock,” Kelly Paquin of Millbury said. “We couldn’t even...

A bad smell that seems to be emanating from a new processing plant has residents of Grafton and surrounding towns complaining.