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Police are investigating after a man was caught on camera fighting officers after being stopped while driving in Newton, Massachusetts.

Two Mass. rowers will hit the water at the Tokyo Olympics under the watchful eye of their coach — who is the father of one of the athletes.

The victim in one of two anti-Asian hate incidents in Newton, Massachusetts, is speaking out as police investigate the crimes that occurred within a 24-hour-period. The victim, who did not want to be identified, had her “Stop Asian Hate” sign removed from her lawn Wednesday morning. She said a neighbor watched someone throw it into the street. “It’s very...

Authorities in Newton, Massachusetts, are investigating two anti-Asian hate incidents. Both incidents happened within a 24-hour period, Mayor Ruthanne Fuller said in a statement Wednesday. In one case, a jogger removed a “Stop Asian Hate” sign from a lawn and threw it in the street. In the other, paint was removed from an exhibit at Newton Out Doors that depicted…

Authorities in Newton, Massachusetts, are investigating two anti-Asian hate incidents.

Police in Newton are telling people to lock their doors in response to five home break-ins, of which all victims were Asian residents, over the past month.

Police are searching for a person connected to a string of break-ins in Newton, in which all the victims are of Asian descent – though it’s not clear if they were targeted for that.

Police in Newton are telling people to lock their doors in response to five home break-ins over the past month, all victims of which were of Asian descent. Police have released images from video surveillance that show the same person pictured at the time of the break-ins on June 19 on Dedham Street and June 20 on Helene Road.

A nearly 70-year-old Massachusetts bicycle sales and repair shop has closed, a victim of the pandemic and a changing business landscape, according to its founder. Harris Cyclery in Newton closed its doors for good on June 13, The Boston Globe reported. Closing the family-owned business was like experiencing a death in the family, said Aaron “Sonny” Harris, who founded the…

Two swastikas drawn with feces were found in a high school bathroom in Newton, Massachusetts, while the MCAS test was being administered Thursday. Police say the anti-Semitic markings were each about three inches tall in a boys’ room at Newton South High School. A student discovered them around noon Thursday. Custodians removed the hate symbols. Police said that because the…

A black SUV wound up stuck on the grass near the sixth hole at a country club in Newton, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, according to the Newton Police Department.

The construction worker who died when a concrete wall at a construction site at a home in a Boston suburb collapsed on him has been identified as a 55-year-old Billerica man. The man who died Thursday in Newton was identified by the Middlesex district attorney’s office Friday as Russell Harron. Family members say Harron was a father of three....

M. DiStasio Excavation Contractors identified the employee killed in a construction incident Thursday at a home in Newton, Massachusetts, as Russell Harron.

A construction worker died Thursday when a concrete and gravel wall collapsed on him, pinning him to the ground where he was working on a home in Newton, Massachusetts, authorities said. Crews were called to conduct a trench rescue at the construction site located at 316 Winchester St. around 8:30 a.m. Rescuers needed specialized equipment to try and get to…

The man had been working in the foundation of the residence when a wall collapsed and pinned him to the ground.

A man was killed after a wall collapsed at ahome under construction in Newton.

Just two days after the FDA and the CDC gave the Johnson & Johnson shot the go-ahead, the one-shot vaccine was met with mixed reactions at a walk-in clinic in Newton Sunday. For most people at Union Pharmacy in Newton Centre, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine came with a shot of relief. “I’d like to be able to see...

As a pause on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was lifted at the end of the week, Newton residents had mixed reactions to getting that version of the vaccine.

A fourth person has been arrested in connection with a string of break-ins at homes in Newton, Massachusetts. Police say 36-year-old Peter Karl Ciesluk of Newton was arrested Wednesday in connection to the series of burglaries. Nearly a dozen homes were burglarized in Newton within the last month, some of which occurred while residents were in their homes and the…

Three men have been arrested in connection with a string of break-ins at homes in Newton, Massachusetts. Nearly a dozen homes were burglarized in Newton within the last month, some of which occurred while residents were in their homes and the homes were locked. A woman in one of the homes was in the basement when she heard footsteps coming…