POLICE

Former Buffalo, New York police officer Cariol Horne is credited with saving a man’s life in 2006, when she intervened to stop a white officer from keeping a Black man in a chokehold during an arrest. Now she’s calling for lawmakers to pass Cariol’s Law, which would protect other cops who intervene when an officer’s use of force goes over...

Opening arguments began Monday in the federal trial for three officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights during his fatal arrest in May 2020. Criminal defense attorney and legal analyst Molly Parmer explains potential legal strategies for the attorneys defending former Minneapolis officers Tou Thao, J. Kueng and Thomas Lane.

One person sustained life-threatening injuries in a shooting in East Boston Sunday night, police said. A call came in at 8:18 p.m. Sunday night reporting that a person had been shot in the area of 808 Saratoga St. in Boston’s Eastie neighborhood. The victim was transported to a local hospital. No arrests have been made. There is an active and...

Charles Burgess, 26, is accused of murder in the shooting death of 25-year-old Prince Thompson at 78 Wallis St in Peabody Sunday night.

Police in Worcester, Massachusetts, arrested two suspects involved in a series of commercial robberies on Thursday. Police said the first robbery took place on Tuesday, Jan. 19 at the Fiddler’s Green Pub located at 19 Temple St., followed by another on Wednesday, Jan. 20 at approximately 2:42 a.m. at a grocery store located at 49 Vernon St. In both cases,…

The 3-year-old boy has a broken leg and nose, according to a witness who said the child and his mother were visiting her right before the crash.

A car drove up onto the sidewalk and into the side of a building in East Boston on Friday morning. Boston police responded to the crash in the area of 54 Chelsea St. shortly before 11 a.m. No further information was immediately available.

A Massachusetts State Police cruiser was hit by a drunk driver in Taunton on Thursday night. A trooper was in the cruiser around 11 p.m. when it was struck. The trooper immediately called for help over his radio. Numerous agencies responded, including Taunton police and fire. The driver, Saul Justa, 44, of Taunton, was arrested and charged with operating under…

A child was hit by a car in a hit-and-run crash Thursday night in Lynn, Massachusetts, leaving him with non-life-threatening injuries, police said, and the search is on for the driver. Both Lynn police and Massachusetts State Police could be seen investigating in the area of 18 Bulfinch Street around 9 p.m. Thursday. A witness, who did not want to...

Two teenagers were detained in South Manchester and remain in custody for questioning in connection with the synagogue attack

A shooting in Providence left one man dead and another injured early Sunday morning, police said. Providence police were called to Elmwood and Potters avenues around 3 a.m. on a report of a shooting and found two men who had been shot. One man was pronounced dead and another was taken to Rhode Island Hospital, police said. Their names were…

Five police officers in Lynn, Massachusetts, have resigned, one was fired and two more were suspended over the course of a monthslong internal misconduct investigation. The investigation was launched as a result of a search warrant brought by the Salem Police Department into domestic assault allegations against an officer in Lynn, according to police in that city. Investigators with the…

A man was found dead after a standoff with police at a home in Foxboro, Massachusetts, Friday, officials said. Few details were immediately available, including the man’s identity, but Foxboro police said Friday night, about nine hours after the incident began, that officers on scene on McKenzie Lane didn’t open fire during the incident. Police were called to the...

A tractor trailer rollover crash at the Mass. Pike interchange with I-95 and Route 128 will cause traffic during the Wednesday morning commute, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. The tractor trailer flipped on its side on the eastbound ramp of the Mass. Pike in Weston to 1-95/Route 128 northbound Wednesday morning. The ramps from northbound 128 to get…

A truck rammed into a police cruiser that was pulled over on the side of Route 9, causing a chain reaction crash Tuesday night. Westborough police officers were helping a car that broke down on Route 9 near Route 495 around 6 p.m. The driver was in a bad spot, police said, and the officers were helping until the tow…

One person was taken to the hospital after he was hit by a car in Worcester Monday night.

Authorities have intensified their search for Harmony Montgomery, the 7-year-old girl who has been missing since 2019. New Hampshire police are seeking the public’s help in the mysterious and prolonged disappearance that only recently surfaced. Here’s a timeline of events made public so far in the girl’s disappearance: Easter 2019: Harmony’s biological mother, Crystal Sorey, told NBC10 Boston this was...

The mother of Harmony Montgomery, the New Hampshire girl who’s been missing for two years, made her first public appearance Saturday since the search got underway. Crystal Sorey was at a park in Manchester with family and friends for a candlelight vigil.

The search for Harmony Montgomery, the 7-year-old girl who has been missing since 2019, continued Saturday in Manchester, New Hampshire. Local police said they had returned with other law enforcement agencies to a home on Gilford Street today, which they said in a news release “is a focus of the investigation because it is the last location where Harmony was…

Virginia’s attorney general says a small town’s police department has operated in a way that led to discrimination against African Americans and violated their constitutional rights.