A Massachusetts police officer has been arrested on child pornography charges by Rhode Island State Police.

Authorities in Taunton, Massachusetts, are searching for a missing 14-year-old boy who is believed to be in danger. Zachary Halloran of East Taunton was last seen leaving Rowley Avenue on foot, Taunton police said in a press release overnight Thursday. It’s unclear what time he was last seen.

A Massachusetts woman was killed in a head-on crash Thursday afternoon, state police said. A trooper responded to the scene of the crash on Old Turnpike Road in Oakham, where the trooper found that a 21-year-old Franklin man who had been driving a 2014 Toyota Corolla had apparently lost control of his car and hit a 2015 Honda CRV that...

A 51-year-old man was killed after being hit by a Jeep on the New Hampshire-Massachusetts border Sunday evening, according to authorities. Seabrook police say officers responded to Ocean Boulevard at the Salisbury, Massachusetts, border just after 8 p.m. for a report of a motor vehicle crash involving a Jeep and a pedestrian.

Boston police are looking for a crime scene after a stabbing victim walked into a local hospital with life-threatening wounds. The victim, identified only as a male, walked into Boston Medical Center’s emergency room after 6:30 a.m. Friday, a police spokesperson said.

Massachusetts State Police continue to investigate after bullet holes were found in an MIT fraternity building.

Massachusetts State Police have responded to MIT to investigate after bullet holes were found on an MIT fraternity building. The building on Memorial Drive is the Phi Beta Epsilon building, and crime scene tape has blocked off a lane of Memorial Drive at Endicott Street.

A woman who escaped police custody Thursday morning while at a Boston hospital on Thursday has been recaptured. Twenty-six-year-old Patricia Lambert was reported missing after escaping Boston Medical Center just after 10 a.m. Thursday. The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department confirmed Friday evening that she had been found in downtown Boston.

A Boston man is facing new charges after a racist tirade against a black couple was caught on camera earlier this month. Boston Police applied for 54-year-old Paul Sheehan of Dorchester to be charged with a threat to do bodily harm, a civil rights violation with no bodily injury, and threat to do property damage, the department said Friday. Sheehan...

Boston police’s civil rights unit said it is investigating an incident involving an MBTA Commuter Rail employee who was caught on camera launching into an expletive-laced racial tirade against a black couple on motorcycles, who had pulled over in his neighborhood Friday night due to a police detour. Police said an officer was in Dorchester directing traffic at Adams and...

Police are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate a man in connection with the stabbing death of an elderly man in Dorchester.

Police in Massachusetts are looking for the owner of two large dogs that were caught on camera attacking a smaller dog.

Police say a Rhode Island woman has twice been charged with driving drunk with children in her vehicle in two weeks.

A Rhode Island woman has been charged with driving drunk with five children in a minivan, according to state police.

Authorities are investigating an overnight shooting in Lowell, Massachusetts. Lowell police said officers arrived at the scene on North Street just after 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, where they found a 21-year-old Lowell man shot in both legs. The victim told responding officers that he was walking down North Street when he was approached by an armed suspect who demanded his cell…

A homeless man is facing charges after police say he chased two girls into a Lowell, Massachusetts home, then assaulted one of their mothers on Sunday afternoon.

A homeless man is facing charges after police say he chased two girls into a Lowell, Massachusetts home, then assaulted one of their mothers on Sunday afternoon.

A man was arrested after he allegedly spooked two girls and followed them into a Massachusetts home, assaulting one of their mothers in the process. Police in Lowell said officers received a call around 4 p.m. Sunday for a report of a suspicious male who had been watching two girls playing in a yard on Court Street. Spooking the girls,…

A Massachusetts man is facing charges after he allegedly ran away from a hospital while naked, broke into a Newburyport home and attacked the homeowners with a hammer.

Police in Upton, Massachusetts are investigating after a 15-year-old boy on a bicycle was seriously injured after being hit by a car Wednesday afternoon.