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While investigators continued to comb the scene of an hourslong standoff in Dorchester that ended with three officers shot and an armed suspect dead, one of the officers remained in a Boston hospital.

Two of three police officers shot during a deadly standoff in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood have been released from the hospital, but the investigation into what led them there continued Wednesday. One officer was saluted by his colleagues as he exited the doors of Boston Medical Center and made his way into a waiting car. The wounded officer who remains...

Two officers have been shot while responding to a standoff at the corner of Ferndale and Norfolk streets in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood Tuesday.

The family of the 28-year-old killed in Brockton, Massachusetts, Thursday night by a man who went on to shoot a police officer, then himself, arrived at the scene a day later to grieve.

Police are working to uncover what happened when a man fatally shot someone, then injured a police officer before killing himself. New surveillance video shows the moment the incident began.

Investigators searched for explosives overnight after an officer was shot multiple times in an hours long standoff in Brockton, Massachusetts. The gunman and one other person died, authorities said Thursday night.

Three members of the Rise of the Moors, a group arrested after an armed standoff along a Massachusetts highway in early July, are due in court Tuesday.

Deputies with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said the woman, 28-year-old Jessica Smith, drove through the active scene and ignored officer commands to exit the golf cart. The incident happened just after midnight Sunday.

An 86-year-old Taunton man is being charged with murder in his wife’s killing, the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday. Edmund Silveira was initially charged with assault and battery by means of a firearm while authorities investigated the fatal shooting of his wife, 71-year-old Dianne Silveira, on Sunday night. After the shooting, Silveira fled into the couple’s Bay Street home and...

A woman has died and a man was arrested after an hourslong standoff with police early Monday morning outside the couple’s home in Taunton, Massachusetts. Police were called to 881 Bay Street just before 9 p.m. Sunday for reports of shots fired and found a woman shot in the driveway. The victim, later identified as 71-year-old Dianne Silveira, was rushed...

A man is under arrest after a police chase through several Massachusetts towns, then a 20-minute standoff.

Police said a person is barricaded inside of an apartment, with SWAT officials outside.

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Shots were fired and a neighborhood shut down Sunday night into Monday morning as police responded to a call for a reported armed and barricaded man in Everett, Massachusetts.

Shots were fired and a neighborhood shutdown Sunday night into Monday morning as police responded to a call for a reported armed and barricaded man in Everett, Massachusetts.

Police bodycam footage from the armed standoff that partially shut down Interstate 95 last weekend in Massachusetts was presented in court Friday. A dangerousness hearing for six of the suspects incorporated bodycam video from a state trooper who encountered the Rise of the Moors on the highway in Wakefield Saturday. Members of the group told police they were heading from…

Two more people charged in connection with a 9-hour armed standoff that partially shut down Interstate 95 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, over the weekend appeared before a judge in Malden on Wednesday. “I committed no crime,” one of the unidentified men said in the courtroom. Nearly all of the 11 men who are charged say they are members of a group…

Supporters of the men involved in the standoff this weekend in Wakefield, Massachusetts, said outside of court Tuesday that the confrontation with state police never should have gone that far. “Everyone wears military gear,” said Rise of the Moors member Leonidas Jabir Bey. “Is it illegal to wear military gear in America?” Members of the Rise of the Moors who…

The men in the Rise of the Moors group arrested in the July 4 weekend standoff on I-95 made several outbursts in court Tuesday, questioning the judge and even disputing their own names.