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Police in Portsmouth, New Hampshire released new details Wednesday about a missing Maine man last seen leaving a local bar nearly three weeks ago. Adam Camarato, 32, of Eliot, Maine was last seen in downtown Portsmouth on Saturday, April 27 just before 1 a.m. He had been at the Clipper Tavern with a friend that night. Portsmouth Police Chief Robert...

Police said a man stole a car after a violent encounter with an ex-girlfriend before crashing it overnight in Methuen.

Methuen police are investigating a serious car crash on Pleasant Valley Street overnight.

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.

Boston city officials said they have shut down a South End storage facility where several people were found illegally living in rented units.

A Massachusetts State Police trooper was taken to a hospital Wednesday morning after authorities say his cruiser was struck in Charlestown.

Police in Bakersfield, Calif. arrested a black teenager after she was mistaken by officers for a 30-year-old black man they were looking for, according to police reports and the teen’s account. In a video posted to Facebook, Tatyana Hargrove says an officer punched and then pinned her down as a police dog bit her leg just moments after she insisted...

Authorities are saying they’re thankful a truck driver who had driven from Washington state to western Massachusetts while high on drugs didn’t hurt anyone.

A graduate student at UCLA shot and killed an engineering professor before taking his own life Wednesday in a murder-suicide that led to a lockdown and campus-wide search involving hundreds of officers, multiple law enforcement sources said.

Ruby Evans witnessed a van hit a police car in Jackson, Mississippi, on Monday, sending the cruiser careening into a utility pole and injuring the officer — but it’s Evans’ on-camera reaction to the crash that’s getting all the attention.