Authorities say a Virginia girl’s dog stopped her from being abducted by biting a man who grabbed her.

Animal control officials say they have rescued 122 cats and kittens from a squalid Pennsylvania home and transported them to a North Philadelphia facility for medical evaluations. Officials say the homeowners had planned on opening a sanctuary but were unable to keep up with the cats’ rapid rate of reproduction. The owners voluntarily surrendered the animals. The cats, most of...

A Connecticut state trooper who was involved in a September crash in Southbury that injured a mother and daughter has been charged with DUI and other violations, Connecticut State Police said Tuesday.

Police officers who responded to the murders of two doctors in their South Boston penthouse testified in the trial of their accused killer on Wednesday. The officers told the jury they saw words written on the wall of the doctors’ condo and found two knives that prosecutors believe may have been used in the murders. Bampumim Teixiera, 32, of Chelsea,...

Jurors in the trial after the murder of two South Boston doctors saw a message scrawled on the wall at the crime scene.

A video showing the dramatic moment a kidnapped 8-year-old Fort Worth girl was rescued by police was released on Monday.

A former Vermont police officer was in a St. Albans courtroom Monday, pleading not guilty to an assault charge stemming from the way he handled a handcuffed suspect in March. Defense attorney Rebecca Otey entered a not guilty plea on behalf of her client, Jason Lawton, 31, of Cambridge.

A Westborough, Massachusetts, man who was shot and killed by police on Friday afternoon had stabbed his wife multiple times, according to police. The man, who has not been identified by police, allegedly stabbed his wife inside their Windsor Ridge Drive apartment around midday Friday.

Police in Holbrook, Massachusetts are seeking the public’s help as they search for a missing 16-year-old boy. Tyler Sainvilus of Holbrook was last seen in the area of 655 Metropolitan Ave. in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood, according to authorities.

As a sudden cold blast grips New England, one Maine city is reviving a tool to help its homeless. Officials in Bangor say they’re once again buying bus tickets to send people with nowhere to live out of the city so they don’t succumb to the cold.

The New Hampshire Marine Patrol says two men are dead and a woman is seriously injured after a boating accident on Lake Winnipesaukee in Meredith. Authorities say they were notified of a boating accident around 6:11 p.m. Saturday on the north side of Bear Island, which has about 200 residents and is only accessible by boat until the lake freezes...

Medford police officers like Carl Brooks have been enjoying delicious baked goods delivered to the department for years. “They just kind of showed up at the main desk miraculously,” Brooks said.

Officials have announced the cause of death for Jason Beam, a New Hampshire man found dead in his Antrim home Friday. After an autopsy, officials have determined that Beam died from multiple stab wounds to his head, neck and chest.

Police in Massachusetts are searching for several people after a man was seriously injured in a fight at Salem State University following a Halloween party. Authorities said the fight happened at about 1 a.m. Friday in the university’s Harrington Building parking lot. The victim, who was not identified, suffered serious injuries, according to police.

The person who police believe spray-painted eight different places in downtown St. Albans, Vermont, this month is seen in an image handed out by police Thursday. The St. Albans Police Department is asking the public to contact them if they have any information about the person pictured, who is scaling a fence in the image they shared.

Police were able to track down a man believed to have dumped a couch and mattress in a state park in Spencer, Massachusetts, all thanks to a ticket for a “Jersey Shore” star Pauly D concert discovered inside the couch. The ticket was discovered by a Spencer resident so angered and upset by the furniture dumped off the side of...

Police shot and killed a suspect they pulled over during a traffic stop near Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, the NYPD said Thursday night. The man was not believed to have been armed. According to NYPD Chief Terence Monahan, three uniformed officers in a marked police cruiser stopped a vehicle heading toward East 211 Street around 3 p.m. with a...