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Mass. volunteers assisting in hard-hit states like North Carolina, Florida
Dozens of volunteers from Massachusetts are assisting in hard-hit North Carolina, where Hurricane Helene’s drenching rains caused widespread destruction. The powerful storm took at least 89 lives across several states, including 30 people in just one North Carolina county. “There’s a lot of need, there is a lot of long-term recovery that’s going to happen,” said Kelly Isenor, of...
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8-year-old Hamilton boy qualifies for national golf competition
Christian Roberts, an 8-year-old golfer from Hamilton, Massachusetts, earned the top score in a regional qualifying round to represent the entire Northeast at the Drive, Chip and Putt national finals during the Masters Championship in Augusta, Georgia. He’s one of only 10 kids around the world to qualify. “I played my best and now I’m going to Augusta nationals,”...
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Mass. beach to remain closed to swimming for another week due to continued shark activity
A popular beach on the North Shore of Massachusetts remained closed Wednesday — and will for several more days — after multiple great white shark sightings on Tuesday. Swimmers were ordered out of the water Tuesday morning when a great white shark sighting was confirmed off the east end of Crane Beach. Ipswich police said sharks were seen in approximately…
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Mass. beach remains closed to swimming after great white shark sightings
A popular beach on the North Shore of Massachusetts remained closed Wednesday — and will for several more days — after multiple great white shark sightings on Tuesday. Swimmers were ordered out of the water Tuesday morning when a great white shark sighting was confirmed off the east end of Crane Beach. Ipswich police said sharks were seen in approximately…
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Feds ‘aware of' NH Libertarian Party's post glorifying killing of VP Harris
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Hampshire and the Secret Service are both aware of a post on social media made by the state’s Libertarian Party that praised as “an American hero” anyone who were to assassinate Vice President Kamala Harris.
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New details on Mass. State Police trainee dead after training exercise
Massachusetts State Police trainee Enrique Delgado-Garcia was sworn in as a trooper shortly before his death, a department spokesman said, some of the new information shared on Delgado-Garcia’s death Saturday. Police have not shared more about the training exercise they’ve said that Delgado-Garcia was seriously injured as a part of. Delgado-Garcia’s family has questioned how the 25-year-old could have...
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After Dorchester shootings, Boston city councilor calls for more police patrols
Boston City Council Vice President Brian Worrell is calling for increased police patrols in Dorchester and Mattapan, according to leaked letters obtained by NBC10 Boston, after recent gun violence traumatized people in his district. Two men were shot in broad daylight at a barbershop in Dorchester on Labor Day and another man was killed on the same street the week…
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Dad of girl killed by truck in Andover suffers his own close call, continues push for safer streets
The first thought Eric Olson had after getting hit by a truck while cycling in Andover, Massachusetts, last week was of his late 5-year-old daughter, Sidney. Olson was riding his bike down Woburn Street when a Ford F150 hit his back tire and sent him into a driveway across the street. He said he sprained his wrists and suffered contusions,…
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Advocate says Sandra Birchmore's family ‘always thought that she was murdered'
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….
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A timeline of the Shelby Hewitt case
Shelby Hewitt, the 32-year-old woman accused of pretending to be a Boston Public Schools student, is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday for a lobby conference. Court documents show that between 2021 and 2023, Hewitt posed as student as young as 13 while working as a social worker for the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families. Here’s a closer look at…
