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President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced modest new steps to combat climate change and promised more robust action to come, saying, “This is an emergency and I will look at it that way.” The president stopped short, though, of declaring a formal climate emergency, which Democrats and environmental groups have been seeking after an influential Democratic senator quashed hopes for…

President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit Somerset Wednesday, where he will deliver remarks on “tackling the climate crisis and seizing the opportunity of a clean energy future to create jobs and lower costs for families.”

The president will visit Somerset to talk about the climate crisis.

President Joe Biden will travel to Massachusetts on Wednesday, the White House announced. Biden is scheduled to visit Somerset, where he will deliver remarks on “tackling the climate crisis and seizing the opportunity of a clean energy future to create jobs and lower costs for families.” No further information was immediately released. Somerset is one of the communities along the…

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen has dropped his lawsuit against a Massachusetts cannabis dispensary that used an image of his character Borat on a billboard without his permission. A document filed in Boston federal court on Tuesday said the two sides have agreed to dismiss the case brought last year by the “Borat” star. The billboard for Somerset-based Solar Therapeutics Inc....

Massachusetts will build its first offshore wind manufacturing facility at the site of an old coal power plant in Somerset, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Thursday. “Getting to this point is an especially important milestone,” Baker said Thursday. Baker, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Energy and Environmental Affairs Kathleen Theoharides, Avangrid CEO Dennis V. Arriola, Prysmian Group Senior Vice President Hakan Ozmen…

An offshore wind facility has replaced the old coal power plant at Brayton Point in Somerset, Mass.

A fire broke out Thursday night at a home in Somerset, Massachusetts, and fire officials believe it may have started from a Christmas tree. The Somerset Fire Department responded to a report of a home fire on Gertrude Street around 6:45 p.m., where crews were met with heavy flames. The volume of fire impacted firefighters’ ability to battle the blaze….

Authorities searching the Taunton River in Somerset, Massachusetts, have recovered the body of a man who went boating Friday night and never returned. The Somerset Fire Chief confirmed in a statement the man’s body was recovered around 11 a.m. Sunday as the result of their coordinated search involving multiple public-safety agencies. The man’s name has not been released. The...

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen is suing a Massachusetts cannabis dispensary over a billboard featuring an image of his character from the movie “Borat,” court documents show. He said the Somerset dispensary, Solar Therapeutics, Inc., plastered the persona on the billboard without his permission for weeks, reaching hundreds of thousands of people. Baron Cohen, along with his California-based company Please You…

A 21-year-old man from Portsmouth, R.I. died in a car crash early Wednesday morning after he was struck by a wrong-way driver. Authorities responded to a crash in Somerset, Massachusetts around 3:45 a.m., the Massachusetts State Police said. A Volvo SUV driven by a 50-year-old man from Bristol, R.I. was driving east on the west side of Interstate 195...

Police in Massachusetts say they have located a Somerset man who had been reported missing. Robert Beden was reported missing after he was last seen Saturday night. Police said at the time that he may have been driving a gray Toyota Camry with Massachusetts plates 792111. Beden was described as 6′ tall, weighing approximately 160 pounds. He may be wearing…

The ex-chief of staff to a former Massachusetts mayor has pleaded guilty to extortion, bribery and other charges in a federal public corruption case.

A driver was killed Thursday in a rollover crash on an interstate highway in Somerset, Massachusetts, state police said. The single-vehicle crash happened around 2:20 p.m. on Interstate 195 eastbound at mile marker 9.2. State police originally reported the driver suffered serious injuries before later said the victim had died. According to a preliminary investigation, police say a Chevrolet Equinox…

Two Massachusetts men are facing charges after they allegedly fled from Somerset police officers Sunday during a traffic stop and then later from the scene of a crash.

A Massachusetts couple was found dead Saturday morning in their Somerset home, and detectives are investigating it as a murder-suicide, state police announced.

Amber Pereira, 30, and Joshua Pereira, 31, were both found dead in their Massachusetts home by a relative who called Somerset police around 8:05 a.m. Saturday.

A Massachusetts couple was found dead Saturday morning in their Somerset home, and detectives are investigating it as a murder-suicide, state police announced. Amber Pereira, 30, and Joshua Pereira, 31, were both found dead by a relative who called Somerset police around 8:05 a.m. Police say both Amber and Joshua Pereira died from apparent gunshot wounds inside their 160 Thelma…

Police say a palm reader in Somerset told a mother her daughter was possessed by a demon, tricking her into forking over more than $70,000.

A palm reader in Massachusetts is being accused of stealing more than $70,000 from a client by telling the woman her daughter was possessed by a demon and she needed the money to relocate the spirit into a Barbie doll.   Somerset police say Tracey Milanovich — who ran Tracy’s Psychic Palm Reader on County Street — faces charges of…