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A popular playground in Ayer, Massachusetts, has been closed to the public due to arsenic contamination. The town of Ayer notified the state environmental protection department this week that the Kiddie Junction Playground at Pirone Park is contaminated. The town is working to remediate the site and replace the playground structure. The playground was constructed in 1989 using standard techniques…

The Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens have some very large guests that are delighting visitors.

Residents in Newton, Massachusetts have spoken out against a proposal to build a new senior center on a park.

A man is being held in Connecticut after allegedly kidnapping and assaulting a 12-year-old girl in Webster, Mass.

An arrest has been made in connection with the alleged kidnapping and sexual assault in May of a 12-year-old girl in Webster, Massachusetts, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Connecticut. Joshua Besaw, 35, of Thompson, Connecticut, was arrested Wednesday on a federal criminal complaint charging him with offenses related to the May 31 kidnapping and sexual assault of a...

Advocates for clean water celebrated a new effort in northern Vermont, in a lake where the state previously declared an environmental crisis. The work in Lake Carmi is aimed at cutting blooms of blue-green algae, which can quickly put the brakes on summer fun. A roughly million-dollar network of aeration tubes is believed to be the largest in the nation,...

Police are searching for a suspect who they say kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl in Webster, Massachusetts.

Officials have revealed new details in the case of a kidnapping in which a 12-year-girl was sexually assaulted in Webster, Massachusetts. Authorities said the child was traveling to May Street Park on her bicycle when she was approached by a man in a car. He lured her into the vehicle under the guise of needing help with a friend.

Officials have revealed new details in the case of a kidnapping in which a 12-year-girl was sexually assaulted in Webster, Massachusetts. Authorities said the child was traveling to May Street Park on her bicycle when she was approached by a man in a car. He lured her into the vehicle under the guise of needing help with a friend.

Police are investigating after a field was doused with gasoline and set on fire in Ridgefield on Saturday.

A Massachusetts mayor’s dog that became known for her cross-country journey after a cancer diagnosis has died. The Sun Chronicle reports Attleboro Mayor Paul Heroux announced on Facebook Mura the Japanese wolf dog died Saturday afternoon. Mura’s death prompted an outpouring of sympathy online, with more than 1,600 users posting messages of condolences.

Investigators returned to Danehy Park in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Friday, Jan. 4, 2018 after a man was found dead as the result of an assault.

The suspect charged with beating a sleeping homeless man to death at a Charlestown, Massachusetts park is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday. Clifton Moore, 30, was charged with first-degree murder in the Sept. 6 attack that killed 34-year-old Joshua Rivera. Rivera suffered numerous blunt force injuries to his head as he was sleeping on a bench at Ryan Playground, according...

At least 8 people have been reported dead in the Saturday shooting.

Pro racecar driver Scott Tucker was sentenced to over 16 years in prison Friday after his conviction for running a payday loan business that prosecutors say cheated millions of financially struggling Americans. U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel said it was “staggering” how many people nationwide were affected by Tucker’s business. Over a 15-year period, more than 1 percent of...

Frigid temperatures, some that could feel as cold as minus 30 degrees, moved across the East Coast on Friday as the region attempted to clean up from a massive winter storm that brought more than a foot of snow, hurricane-force winds and coastal flooding a day earlier. Forecasters predict strong winds and record-breaking cold air will sweep the region, from...

A family targeted with a burning cross by a Ku Klux Klan leader-turned-priest says they are owed thousands more in compensation and the Catholic diocese covered up the priests’ past actions.

On Oct. 27, a 46-year-old man armed with an AR-15-style rifle and other weapons opened fire at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood on the Jewish Sabbath, killing multiple people and injuring four police officers and two others, according to officials and law enforcement sources. There have been many other fatal shootings that took place at...

“Rocky” and “Karate Kid” director John G. Avildsen has died at the age of 81, his son says.

A historian has been charged with stealing the dog tags of U.S. servicemen whose planes crashed in World War II from the National Archives and selling them on eBay.