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Three high-profile Massachusetts officials have now issued statements in the past 24 hours calling for a thorough, transparent investigation into the death of 16-year-old Mikayla Miller. Mikayla’s family is expected to speak at a vigil and rally Thursday at 4:30 p.m. at the town common in her hometown of Hopkinton. The town’s select board held a meeting Tuesday night...

Lawyers for Los Angeles County have asked a judge to ‘throw out’ Vanessa Bryant’s emotional distress lawsuit — that claims sheriff’s deputies and firefighters photographed her husband and daughter’s remains at the scene of the helicopter crash near Calabasas and shared those images.

A vigil will be held Thursday for Mikayla Miller, a 16-year-old girl who was found dead last month, in her hometown of Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

The prosecutor leading the investigation into the death of a 16-year-old girl from Hopkinton, Massachusetts, explained on Tuesday what her office knows so far about the case and promised a full investigation with transparency for the public. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan also acknowledged unsubstantiated rumors swirling in the community that Mikayla Miller, who was Black, was murdered and that…

One person is dead and four others are in the hospital with serious injuries after a car crash in Lawrence, Massachusetts Thursday morning.

Police are investigating racist, homophobic and sexually explicit graffiti found in a home in North Reading on Monday.

Seven police officers in Lynn, Massachusetts, are on administrative leave and under investigation over allegations of inappropriate conduct. The allegations involve potential drug abuse and use of racially insensitive language in a private text conversation between two officers, according to the Lynn Police Department. The department recently learned of the allegations from another law enforcement agency, according to a release…

Several police officers in Lynn, Massachusetts are on administrative leave and under investigation over allegations of inappropriate conduct.

Boston City Councilor Andrea Campbell is calling on Mayor Kim Janey to launch an independent probe into the police department’s handling of child molestation allegations against former officer Patrick Rose. Campbell criticized Janey for releasing “incomplete” documents from a 1990s internal affairs investigation into Rose around the same time that Derek Chauvin was convicted for the murder of George...

A person of interest in the disappearance of Kristin Smart was taken into custody Tuesday morning.

Days after he allegedly shot and killed his estranged wife, a New Hampshire man has died, authorities said Friday.

A woman found dead after a fire in a New Hampshire home had been shot in the head, authorities said Tuesday, announcing that they believe her estranged husband killed her during a custody exchange of their adult child

The death of a woman in a charred New Hampshire home is being investigated as suspicious, while her husband is in a Boston hospital being treated for critical injuries, authorities said Monday. Part of the investigation is a series of gunshots that neighbors reported before the house in Derry went up in flames. Police and fire officials were initially called…

Charges were filed Tuesday against a Mexicali, Mexico, man accused of coordinating a smuggling run that ended with the deaths of 13 Mexican and Guatemalan nationals crammed in an SUV with more than a dozen others.

Duxbury High School’s football game this week has been canceled as school officials continue to respond to anti-Semitic remarks made by the team. Days after the firing of head coach David Maimaron over the use of anti-Semitic language in play calls, the school announced Monday that the team would be required to attend two workshops on diversity, equity and...

Massachusetts State Sen. Barry Finegold, a former college football player who practices Judaism, is offering to explain why anti-Semitic language is offensive to the Duxbury football team amid an ongoing play-call scandal. “I have heard a lot of line-of-scrimmage audibles, but I never heard anyone use ‘Auschwitz’ before,” Finegold wrote in an open letter to the team. “I thought it…

Duxbury Public Schools fired the head coach of its high school football team as it investigates the use of offensive language, including anti-Semitic remarks, in a recent game, officials announce Wednesday. Friday’s varsity football game as well as the junior varsity and freshman games scheduled for Saturday and Monday were canceled as well. And the district is hiring an...

The “highly offensive language” used by a Massachusetts high school football team during a recent game included anti-Semitic remarks, and there may have been other offensive language used as well, the school’s superintendent confirmed Tuesday. Duxbury school officials had announced on Monday that the team had incorporated offensive language into its play-call system for adjusting plays on the field,...

A retired NYPD cop is the latest to face criminal charges in connection to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

A Massachusetts high school football team’s use of “highly offensive language” during a game last week is under investigation, according to district officials. The language was used as part of the Duxbury High School team’s play-call system for adjusting plays on the field, according to a letter sent to the community from Duxbury Superintendent John Antonucci, Assistant Superintendent Danielle...