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A teenage driver managed to avoid being injured after his car got stuck on MBTA Commuter Rail tracks and was hit by a train Thursday night in Stoughton, Massachusetts, police said. The driver told officers he’d taken a wrong turn and ended up getting stuck on the tracks, according to MBTA Transit Police. When the train hit the car,...

Legal experts say it’s unusual for federal authorities to become involved in a local investigation, especially twice within the same county, as has happened in the Karen Read and Sandra Birchmore cases.

The federal indictment of a former Massachusetts police detective in the 2021 death of Sandra Birchmore — previously ruled a suicide — is an emotional development for family members and advocates. Matthew Farwell, who was a detective with the Stoughton Police Department, is accused of killing Birchmore and staging her apartment to make it appear she had died by suicide….

Federal investigators have made explosive new allegations in the death Sandra Birchmore, a woman whose death in Canton, Massachusetts, in 2021 was initially ruled a suicide. In an indictment filed this week in Boston’s federal court, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts alleges that Matthew Farwell, who was at the time a detective in Stoughton, killed Birchmore, a 23-year-old...

A former Stoughton, Massachusetts, police detective has been federally indicted in the death of Sandra Birchmore, accused of killing her and then staging her apartment to make it appear she had committed suicide.

All students who applied for bus transportation in Stoughton, Massachusetts, are officially getting a ride to school. More details will be released at a Stoughton School Committee meeting Tuesday night. School officials say a bus has been added. It will have to take two runs each in the morning and afternoon, but all 150 middle and high school students who…

A two-car crash in Stoughton, Massachusetts, early Wednesday left a driver dead and two other people hospitalized, authorities said. The crash took place on Turnpike Street near a Dunkin’, not far from Route 24, about 6:15 a.m., according to Stoughton police and the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office. A Quincy woman told investigators was driving her Toyota Highlander home from…

Parents in Stoughton, Massachusetts, are scrambling just weeks ahead of the first day of school after the district cut a school bus. The parents say they’re outraged over the decision and are wondering what to do. The superintendent called this a “transportation perfect storm,” and parents sounded off on it in a meeting Monday night. “Adding to what I’m...

Families of 150 secondary students in the Stoughton Public Schools system learned last week that their children will not have bus transportation for the upcoming school year. The district says they already notified those families who applied but must seek other arrangements. The district’s superintendent stated in a press release that the public school system experienced a significant increase in…

A man was shot in the leg in Stoughton, Massachusetts, on Wednesday night, according to authorities. The incident happened at about 10 p.m. on Stagecoach Road, Stoughton police said, where they found the 31-year-old man suffering from a gunshot injury to the left leg. The man, whose name wasn’t released, was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Details...

At a hearing in the ongoing wrongful death lawsuit filed in civil court by the estate of Sandra Birchmore, a lawyer for the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office revealed new details about a criminal investigation, sharing that it’s still ongoing, three years after the woman’s death. “There is an ongoing investigation, it continues to be very active,” said Lisa Maki,...

A new forensic report on the death of a pregnant woman whom authorities say had relationships with three Stoughton police officers, including one when she was a girl, has left the department’s chief “profoundly disturbed and troubled,” the official said Monday. It’s the latest update in the death of Sandra Birchmore, who met the three officers as a teenager...

A young child was seriously injured in Stoughton, Massachusetts, Wednesday morning. Details surrounding the incident weren’t immediately released. 

A teenager was severely injured after a shooting in Stoughton, Massachusetts on Friday night. Stoughton Police say they received 911 calls reporting gunshots in the area of McEachron Drive at around 11:20 p.m. Authorities say that they found shell casings when they arrived in the area of Murray Circle but did not find any victims at the scene. Officers were…

A teenager has been arrested in connection to a daytime shooting in Stoughton, Massachusetts on Saturday. Stoughton Police say they responded to a 911 call reporting shots fired in the area Central Street and Greenwood Avenue. When officers arrived they saw a man leaving the area, according to authorities. The man, identified as 18-year-old Marc Francois, of Stoughton, was located…

Aidan Kearney, the blogger behind the Massachusetts news brand Turtleboy, was arrested Wednesday on charges brought by a special prosecutor over actions taken in his intense campaign to uncover alleged corruption in an ongoing blockbuster murder case in Norfolk County. A longtime presence in Massachusetts’ news scene, Kearney has been reporting on the Karen Read case and rallying supporters who…

A sinkhole opened up on Route 24 south Thursday, causing delays near the Stoughton/Avon line, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

A man lifted a woman’s skirt as she walked into a CVS store in Stoughton, Massachusetts, on Monday, police said, asking for help identifying him. The man ran off when he was confronted, Stoughton police said. They shared a surveillance still of the man, who was wearing a black shirt, shorts and hat, and asked for anyone with information...

Taxpayers in Melrose, Massachusetts, will vote in November on whether to replace their outdated public safety buildings. The development comes after an NBC10 Boston investigation revealed a litany of issues inside the city’s fire stations, including no heat in the winter, leaking roofs, rodent infestation and raw sewage. Our story also raised safety issues for the first responders who...