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A Taunton police sergeant was arrested early Sunday morning and placed on administrative leave after allegedly injuring a motorcyclist in a drunken driving crash. Shawn Smith, 49, of Raynham, was charged with OUI liquor causing serious injury and negligent operation of a motor vehicle. He is expected to be arraigned Monday in Taunton District Court. The motorcyclist, a 52-year-old Rehoboth…

A public wake is being held Tuesday for Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, a Lawrence native and one of the last troops to lose their lives in America’s longest war. She’ll be laid to rest at Bellevue Cemetery in a section reserved for military veterans.

A public wake will be held for Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo Tuesday in the Veterans Memorial Stadium next to Lawrence High School, where she earned her degree. She’ll be laid to rest at Bellevue Cemetery in a section reserved for military veterans.

Jury selection is expected to take one week in the trial for Thomas Latanowich, the man accused of killing Yarmouth Police Sergeant Sean Gannon in 2018.

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 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.

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.

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

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 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...

A vandalism spree in a northwestern Vermont city has community members calling on their neighbors to step up and ensure better treatment of their prized downtown district. “It hurts morale,” Sgt. Paul Talley of the St. Albans Police Department said of a string of graffiti incidents detectives believe happened under the cloak of darkness over the weekend in several locations...

A Hartford man is charged in a deadly shooting in the city in April.