WALPOLE

A driver was seriously injured after being trapped in his vehicle after a crash Monday in Walpole, Massachusetts. Crews needed to use Jaws of Life to free the man after his Lexus was involved in a crash with a truck carrying steel beams. The crash happened shortly before noon on School Street. “I was sitting in my van conducting some…

It was a dramatic scene in Walpole on Monday as the Jaws of Life were used to remove a driver from a Lexus after he crashed into steel beams near his home.

Emergency crews are responding to a crash after steel beams fell off of a truck in Walpole.

With what’s expected to be the first major snowstorm of the season for most of New England, people are getting ready. At Rocky’s True Value in Walpole, Massachusetts, that means getting the snowblowers out of the box and onto the sales floor. They’ve had some snow in the area already, but not much. The store saw an uptick in...

The former deputy police chief in Walpole faced a judge for the first time on Thursday, accused of groping another police officer in his department vehicle. Christopher Mackenzie was charged with indecent assault in February. However, his arraignment in Quincy District Court was delayed while courthouses remained closed amid the coronavirus pandemic. According to the criminal complaint, witnesses said Mackenzie…

A former deputy police chief of Walpole, Massachusetts, faced a judge for the first time Thursday, accused of groping another officer in his department vehicle.

A man suspected of dragging a Massachusetts State Trooper down Interstate 95 Thursday morning as he fled from police is now in custody. After being pulled over for speeding shortly after midnight, the man allegedly sped off in a Jeep before he crashed it and ran away on foot in Walpole. Police found him in Sharon Thursday morning, according to…

A man suspected of dragging a Massachusetts State Trooper down Interstate 95 Thursday morning in Walpole, then fleeing the scene, has been taken into custody.

With so much unknown about what coronavirus antibodies mean for immunity, Siemens Healthineers is the first to get FDA approval to measure the number of antibodies with tests being manufactured in Walpole, Massachusetts.

A Massachusetts school district has announced plans to change the controversial nickname of its mascot. Long the home of the “Rebels,” schools in Walpole will abandon the name over its racist historical ties. The school committee voted unanimously Thursday to stop using the name for athletic teams. It’s been a controversial topic for decades. In the 1980s, the schools...

Walpole’s high school is planning to change its longstanding nickname due to its racist historical ties.

Rob Gronkowski may have joined the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but he’s still a Massachusetts resident, and on Friday he showed his gratitude to a pair of his local fire departments by donating personal protective equipment to them. He and his girlfriend, Camille Kostek, dropped off masks and face shields with the Walpole and Foxboro fire departments. And in classic...

A gas leak closed a road in Walpole overnight Friday as crews dug in to make repairs, according to authorities. Washington Street was closed early Saturday between High Plain St. and Pilgrim Way as Columbia Gas of Massachusetts works to fix leak, Walpole police said. Residents in the area may get to their homes from the Polley Lane side while…

A former police officer in Walpole, Massachusetts, is facing sexual assault charges for allegedly inappropriately touching another police officer while she was driving after a night at a restaurant last year. Christopher Mackenzie was a deputy police chief in Walpole, in the same department as the alleged victim’s husband, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday. The victim is...

A former deputy police chief in Walpole, Mass. is accused of assault.

Christopher Mackenzie, the former deputy chief of the Walpole Police Department, is accused of sexually assaulting a female police officer from a nearby community when she was driving him home in his cruiser.

Two men have escaped from a truck that plunged into a frozen pond early Sunday morning in Massachusetts. Walpole Police Chief John Carmichael says the pickup truck somehow “slid off” Oak Street and crashed into a nearby pond. The truck was submerged in about 10 feet of water and both men had to escape through a window, he said. The…

The two men in Walpole managed to get out through a window of the truck.

The crash happened on North Street near Bubbling Brook.