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A toddler was hospitalized with burns after a fire broke out at a home day care center in Oxford, Massachusetts. The fire took place at a home on Watch Street. The child was taken to UMass Memorial Medical Center, according to the Massachusetts fire marshal’s office. No information about the child’s condition was immediately available. The day care center...

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A Massachusetts man without a license allegedly got behind the wheel drunk early Friday morning and crashed his truck into a gas station store in Oxford, injuring the store clerk inside, officials said. Derikk McGovern, 28, of Webster, is facing multiple charges in connection to the crash at the Mobil Fuel Station, including OUI (alcohol). Prosecutors said in court Friday…

Prosecutors say the truck driver was driving with a blood alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit.

A 14-year-old boy was arrested after he told police about his involvement in Joe Nunez’s death last week. The boy faces charges including murder and conspiracy to commit murder. The boy is being held at a juvenile detention center in Bridgeport pending a future court appearance, police said. The body of 14-year-old Jose Nunez, of Bridgeport, was found in...

The owner of a gym in Oxford, who has been told to shut down his business during the COVID-19 pandemic, held a rally today to protest the orders. The town had water and electricity cut off from David Blondin’s Prime Fitness Gym earlier this week, and posted signs detailing the closure at the building’s entrances a day after a...

After local officials stepped up measures this week to keep a local gym closed during statewide shutdown orders, the owner hosted a peaceful rally to protest reopening rules.

The owner of Prime Fitness Gym has continued to defy Gov. Charlie Baker’s orders to close non-essential businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Officials in Oxford shut down a local gym that has refused to close amid the coronavirus pandemic, cutting off its water and electricity and posting a notice at its entrances. The move comes a day after a Massachusetts judge ordered local officials to shut it down through whatever means necessary. Attorney Mark Reich, representing the town, confirmed Thursday morning that…

A Massachusetts judge ordered the town of Oxford to shut down a gym, through whatever means required, that’s been kept open during the coronavirus pandemic. David Blondin, owner of Prime Fitness Gym, has kept it open despite Gov. Charlie Baker’s order for non-essential businesses to close. He reopened on May 18, the same day that Baker’s first phase in...

An Oxford gym owner who has been violating Massachusetts’ order for fitness centers to remain closed to combat the spread of coronavirus will continue to do so after receiving a fine. Prime Fitness Gym owner David Blondin said Friday that he had been fined $300. He said he would fight the fine and anything else that comes at him. The…

A Massachusetts gym owner is defying Gov. Baker’s order to stay closed. “The gym is open,” David Blondin, owner of Prime Fitness Gym, told Oxford Health Agent Thomas Purcell when he inquired. Not backing down to Oxford’s Board of Health, Blondin, is refusing to close the gym’s doors after opening Monday in violation of Gov. Charlie Baker’s essential businesses...

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One person has died in a fire on Thursday afternoon in Oxford, Massachusetts, the state’s fire marshal said. Firefighters pulled a man from a 2-story garage fire at 33 Sacarrappa Rd. The victim was taken to an area hospital, but died from injuries sustained in the fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

A truck smashed into the front of a home in Millbury, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, shearing a gas meter line, fire officials said. Gas was shut off after its distinctive odor was detected and firefighters responded to the scene on Riverlin Street near Millbury Avenue, the Millbury Fire Department said on Twitter.

Residents were told to avoid an area of Millbury, Massachusetts, on Tuesday after a truck slammed into a house and caused authorities to shut off the gas.

An Indiana woman found with an 8-foot-long python wrapped around her neck had apparently kept snakes at the residence, which was filled with snakes and outfitted for a collection of the reptiles, police said Thursday.

Authorities have released the name of the pedestrian struck and killed on the Massachusetts Turnpike over the weekend. State police say 27-year-old Kimberly Hannon, of Douglas, was struck by a car in Millbury at about 11 p.m. Saturday.

The last of the firefighters injured in a deadly building explosion in Maine has been released from the hospital. Maine Medical Center said Sunday that Capt. Scott Baxter has been discharged to a rehabilitation facility. The explosion destroyed the LEAP Inc. building in Farmington and hospitalized six firefighters.