Tim Jones

With Brexit just 47 days away, the British government asked lawmakers on Sunday to give Prime Minister Theresa May more time to rework her divorce deal with the European Union. Communities Secretary James Brokenshire said Parliament would get to pass judgment on May’s Brexit plan “no later than Feb. 27.” The promise is a bid to avert a showdown on...

Footage shows towering flames in San Francisco as crews battle a fire caused by a gas explosion.

A judge has sentenced a teen to prison for his role in a crash in New Hampshire that killed an off-duty Massachusetts police officer. Michael Ricci was ordered to immediately begin serving his seven to 14-year prison sentence after the hearing Monday afternoon.

A Marine recruiter who was last seen with a recruit who went missing in Boston last November has been taken into custody on unrelated charges, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service confirmed.

Boston police are asking for area students to celebrate responsibly during Super Bowl Sunday and say restrictions will be in place.

When Babson College math professor Dr. Richard Cleary watches football, the Patriots fan in him sees the X’s and O’s more as calculations.

Lawmakers are hearing arguments for and against proposals to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour and require that workers be offered paid family medical leave.

A Rhode Island man is accused of punching and kicking a school teacher as he tried to force his way into the school’s gym Tuesday, police said.

Authorities say three people have been arrested in connection a fatal stabbing in New Bedford, Massachusetts, last week.

A Massachusetts man arrested in connection with the death of a man who had been missing since earlier this month has been held without bail.