Massachusetts

Police checking on a speech therapist’s wellbeing found her dead in the basement of her home in Wakefield, Massachusetts, where her son charged police officers investigating the home armed with a knife, prosecutors said Tuesday. The officers shot the 23-year-old man, who remains in intensive care after surgery at a local hospital, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said at...

Fenway Park will be Massachusetts’ second mass vaccination site, joining Gillette Stadium when it opens Feb. 1, Gov. Charlie Baker’s office announced Tuesday. The Baker administration also announced a new partnership with CVS and Walgreens pharmacies that will begin to vaccinate qualified residents. Also announced Tuesday were the expansion of UMass Amherst’s vaccination site and the “Hospital Depot Initiative,”...

Two Massachusetts residents, including a town meeting member who organized buses to take Trump supporters to Washington ahead of the Jan. 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol, were arrested Tuesday in connection with the riot, authorities said. Natick town meeting member Suzanne Ianni, 59, was arrested Tuesday morning and faces charges of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building…

New emergency regulations adopted last month setting minimum requirements for how much live instruction Massachusetts schools must provide if they are conducting at least some remote teaching are set to take effect Tuesday. The rule requires schools that are operating in a remote model to provide at least some synchronous instruction — where students can directly interact with a teacher…

A man has died and a woman has serious injuries after a rollover crash Monday morning on Route 24 in Stoughton, Massachusetts, state police said. State troopers responded to the crash on Route 24 northbound, just before Route 139 around 10:55 a.m. A 47-year-old woman from Boston who was trapped inside the Lexus SUV was freed by first responders before…

The home of the Red Sox will be Boston’s first location for mass vaccinations against COVID-19.

Massachusetts reported 2,567 new confirmed coronavirus cases Tuesday and an additional 45 deaths.

A missing 10-year-old child last seen Tuesday morning in Newton, Massachusetts, has been safely located, police said. Clara Alfermann walked away from the Montessori School on Crescent Street in the Newton Center area at about 11 a.m., according to police. A couple of hours after pleading for help locating the child, police tweeted that Alfermann had been located. No further…

A town meeting member from Natick, Massachusetts, as well as a Malden man are facing charges after photos emerged of them inside the U.S. Capitol during the riot on Jan. 6, according to the FBI.

While Massachusetts health officials say only one case of the new COVID variant has been detected in the state so far, it has likely been circulating for weeks.

An early morning fire at a home in Holliston, Massachusetts, resulted in the death of a woman and several animals, officials said.

As the country awaits the transition of power – officials are preparing for all possibilities both locally and in the nation’s Capitol.

Massachusetts announced its first confirmed case of the new, more contagious COVID variant on Sunday, but some medical experts in the state say they aren’t surprised. Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett with Boston Medical Center says it may not even be the first case. The CDC has said the new variant may become the dominant strain in the U.S. by...

A 6-year-old Massachusetts girl with a genetic blood disorder is on a mission to help others. Addison Gigliotti, of Middleton, has started a business with her mom to help give back to the Boston hospitals that have cared for her over the past few years. She was just two years old when she received a scary diagnosis at a local…

The first mass vaccination site in Massachusetts is now open at Gillette Stadium for people who qualify for the shot. “It was easy peasy and the people working it were great,” said physical therapist Jen Bremner. “Very efficient, and I feel very thankful to have had it done.” Registered nurse Cynthia Myers also received the shot Monday at Gillette. “It…

The Massachusetts, National Guard is staging behind the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, access to the State House is restricted after being nearly closed off entirely on Sunday. The signs that Boston is on alert ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as the nation’s 46th president were increasingly visible on Monday. “We don’t ever want to get caught...

At Signarama in Braintree, Massachusetts, the hum of high-tech equipment is a welcome sound to owner Michael Sepinuck. Sepinuck was surrounded by eerie silence last spring, when coronavirus restrictions went into effect around the state, shuttering his business and thousands of others. With sign orders on pause, things looked dire. But a loan received through the federal government’s Paycheck...

NBC10 crunched the numbers and found about 70,000 of the roughly 118,000 businesses in Massachusetts that received PPP loans last year are registered in ways that would potentially make them responsible to pay the state income tax.

Monday was the first day that people who live in congregate care settings in Massachusetts could be vaccinated, but Bonnie Tenneriello from Prisoners’ Legal Services says the vaccine is not enough. She says the Department of Corrections hasn’t acted fast enough on a legislative mandate to release more prisoners because of the pandemic which would help reduce the spread of...

A downed utility pole with a transformer was knocked over Monday night in South Boston, spilling around 50 gallons of mineral oil and blocking one of the city’s streets, the Boston Fire Department said.