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A person was hit by a vehicle, closing Route 1 and another Massachusetts highway Thursday, authorities said.

The owner of a Massachusetts auto shop likes to stir the political pot with the signs he posts out front, but his latest whipped up more reaction than usual. Rob Roy, who owns Rob Roy Auto in Salisbury, has put up controversial signs in the past couple years, like one with a large Confederate flag that a caption said “thousands…

Michael Hajjar took video of what appears to be a funnel cloud from a parking lot in Salisbury, Massachusetts.

A Lowell man has died in a motorcycle accident Friday afternoon, police said.

A 20-year-old man has died after a crash Monday in Salisbury, Massachusetts. An Audi A-4 and a Lexus RX450 collided head-on around 4:45 p.m. on Interstate 495 northbound, state police said. The Audi’s driver, 20-year-old Thomas Greene of Seabrook, New Hampshire, suffered fatal injuries. A 22-year-old male passenger in the Audi suffered minor injuries. The driver of the Lexus, a…

One family experienced first-hand a problem that doctors say is too common and worsening: shortages of childhood cancer drugs. Doctors, meanwhile, find themselves having to ration life-saving drugs.

The United States has announced more sanctions against Russia over its use of a nerve agent to try and assassinate former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Britain in 2018, the State Department said, as NBC News reported. The announced sanctions fall under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act and mean the U.S. will oppose loans and...

A surprising phenomenon has caught the attention of many people in Vermont’s Addison County, where a handful of communities have seen an explosion in their local frog population. In Preston Turner’s yard in Salisbury, it sort of seems like the ground is moving—from countless quick blurs of darting frogs. They are more than Turner can remember ever seeing before, he...

Police are investigating after suspicious letters were sent to three organizers of a planned “straight pride parade.”

Aerial footage shows crews responding to a scene in Salisbury, Massachusetts. State police and the FBI sent bomb squads to investigate in Woburn and Malden, as well.

The Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife is reminding hikers that several cliff areas are closed this spring and part of the summer to protect nesting peregrine falcons. The sites will remain closed until Aug. 1 or until officials determine that the risk to the birds has passed.

Police in Salisbury, Massachusetts, say a New Hampshire man was overdosing behind the wheel when he caused a horrific crash.

On a foggy November morning in 2015, a heavily intoxicated man showed up before dawn at the Dupont Circle Hotel, forked over $1,200 cash for a ninth-floor penthouse suite and kept drinking. His bender continued all day. By the next morning, he was dead. Authorities concluded that he died of blunt force trauma, the result of repeatedly falling in his...

The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is consulting with Congress about additional sanctions on Russia over the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in Britain, in a move that is likely to further strain already tense relations. The State Department said in a statement that Russia has failed to meet a 90-day deadline that fell on Tuesday to comply with...

A 51-year-old man was killed after being hit by a Jeep on the New Hampshire-Massachusetts border Sunday evening, according to authorities. Seabrook police say officers responded to Ocean Boulevard at the Salisbury, Massachusetts, border just after 8 p.m. for a report of a motor vehicle crash involving a Jeep and a pedestrian.

An investigative group in Britain says it has identified one of the two suspects in the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in the U.K. as a highly-decorated colonel in the Russian military intelligence agency GRU....
The group, Bellingcat, said Wednesday that the suspect, whose passport name was Ruslan Boshirov, is in fact Col. Anatoliy Chepiga, who in 2014 was awarded Russia’s...

A member of Russia’s Pussy Riot protest group says a severely ill fellow activist was being taken to Germany on Saturday for treatment after his suspected poisoning. Maria Alekhina told The Associated Press that Pyotr Verzilov was being flown to Berlin, but she did not give details. Independent news site Meduza reported that Verzilov’s partner, Veronika Nikulshina, said a doctor...

The two Russian men spun an unlikely tale of hapless tourists defeated by grim British weather: They traveled more than 1,000 miles to see England’s famed Salisbury Cathedral but were turned back by slush and snow, then returned the next day and spent two hours exploring the “beautiful” city....
British officials had a more sinister explanation: Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov...

Stormy Daniels is performing at a club in Salisbury, Massachusetts.

Britain’s security minister said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin bears ultimate responsibility for the nerve agent attack targeting a former spy in England, also warning that the U.K. would counter Russian “malign activity” with both overt and covert measures. Ben Wallace said Putin and his government “controls, funds and directs” the military intelligence unit known as the GRU, which...