The Boston Celtics became the 2024 NBA Champions, giving the city a big reason to celebrate. Meanwhile, audiences far beyond the Boston area watched closely as Karen Read stood trial for the murder of her police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe, it all ending in a mistrial after her defense laid out a case alleging she was the victim of a police coverup.
All that, and so much more. Here's a look at our top stories of the year. (And below it, see our top pictures of the year!.
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Jan. 10, 2024: A woman inches closer to wave action in Revere along Winthrop Shore Drive.
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Jan. 10, 2024: Waves crash over the seawall along Winthrop Shore Drive in Revere.
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Jan. 10, 2024: A squirrel bathes in the afternoon light in South Boston.
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Jan. 12, 2024: In Downtown Crossing, clown heads are part of an art installation from the Downtown Boston Business Improvement District.
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Jan. 13, 2024: Surfers catch a wave and a rainbow during a unique winter weather moment on Winthrop Beach.
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Feb. 7, 2024: Lynn firefighters investigate after a car slid into the ocean off Blossom Street Extension. No one was hurt.
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Feb. 8, 2024: Two airliners clipped wings at Boston’s Logan airport, causing delays for both jets’ passengers but not causing any injuries.
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Feb. 8, 2024: The unique and somewhat rare hole punch cloud makes an appearance near Boston’s Logan airport.
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Feb. 15, 2024: A tow company raises a car from over the seawall to the street after a two-car crash on Winthrop’s Pleasant Street.
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Feb. 21, 2024: A blue jay buzzes a winterberry bush in Cambridge.
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Feb. 28, 2024: Red dye-stained money sits in Andrew Square as Boston police detectives investigate a nearby bank robbery.
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March 7, 2024: Protestors block the area near Boston’s South Station as they call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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March 7, 2024: Protestors block the area near Boston’s South Station as they call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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March 31, 2024: An insect enjoys some early pollen in this close-up photo in Revere.
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Boston firefighters and Boston EMS render aid at the scene of a large fire on East Boston’s Meridian Street. A 10-year-old girl and an adult perished in the early morning blaze.
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Boston firefighters and Boston EMS render aid at the scene of a large fire on East Boston’s Meridian Street. A 10-year-old girl and an adult perished in the early morning blaze.
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Boston firefighters and Boston EMS render aid at the scene of a large fire on East Boston’s Meridian Street. A 10-year-old girl and an adult perished in the early morning blaze.
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Boston firefighters and Boston EMS render aid at the scene of a large fire on East Boston’s Meridian Street. A 10-year-old girl and an adult perished in the early morning blaze.
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April 5, 2024: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu checks on the status of four police officers who were injured inside City Hall as they tried to arrest a belligerent man who also bit one of the officers.
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April 8, 2024: Students at For Kids Only Afterschool program view the solar eclipse from a patch of grass in Winthrop.
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April 8, 2024: The near-total solar eclipse as seen from Winthrop, Massachusetts.
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April 10, 2024: Balloons left over from the Red Sox home opener, a 7–1 loss to Baltimore, the day before blow in the wind and settle on Brookline Avenue outside of Fenway Park.
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April 25, 2024: A deceased humpback whale appears along the coast in Marblehead. The whale was towed out to sea, only to reappear in Swampscott several days later.
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April 25, 2024: A deceased humpback whale appears along the coast in Marblehead. The whale was towed out to sea, only to reappear in Swampscott several days later.
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July 15, 2024: A whale in Nahant Bay breaches several feet from Clark Scott, a Swampscott kayaker.
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Aug. 7, 2024: A juvenile humpback whale is seen off Boston’s Deer Island. The whale thrilled passersby for weeks, though it prompted a warning of possible MBTA water shuttle delays.
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Aug. 7, 2024: A juvenile humpback whale is seen off Boston’s Deer Island. The whale thrilled passersby for weeks, though it prompted a warning of possible MBTA water shuttle delays.
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April 29, 2024: Canada Geese goslings navigate Commonwealth Avenue at Charlesgate West.
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May 3, 2024: Swan cygnets tuck underneath their mother at a pond in Chestnut Hill.
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May 8, 2024: A blue jay gets a closer look at a hawk in a tree in Winthrop.
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May 10, 2024: A uniquely Boston double-“Storrowing” — after an 18-wheeler struck the Bowker Bridge early in the morning, hours later a Trillium Brewing truck struck a Storrow Drive bridge near Mass. General Hospital.
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May 10, 2024: A uniquely Boston double-“Storrowing” — after an 18-wheeler struck the Bowker Bridge early in the morning, hours later a Trillium Brewing truck struck a Storrow Drive bridge near Mass. General Hospital.
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June 4, 2024: A bridge strike on Boston’s Soldiers Field Road caused extensive damage to this rental truck.
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June 4, 2024: A bridge strike on Boston’s Soldiers Field Road caused extensive damage to this rental truck.
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Nov. 13, 2024: The second “Storrowing” in two days, this time the Fairfield Street footbridge is the victim of this early morning crash.
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Nov. 13, 2024: Another angle of the Fairfield Street footbridge “Storrowing.”
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May 27, 2024: This early morning crash involving a large MassDOT sign on West Bridgewater’s Route 24 south caused a non-life threatening injury and heavy traffic.
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May 29, 2024: A Boston police explosive ordnance expert prepares to examine a suspicious package on Boston’s State Street. The package was deemed harmless, though the area’s two-hour closure affected lunch hour businesses.
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May 30, 2024: A fire destroys the former Russo Tux building on Revere Beach Parkway in Chelsea.
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May 30, 2024: A fire destroys the former Russo Tux building on Revere Beach Parkway in Chelsea.
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June 8, 2024: The Boston’s Pride for the People parade makes its way through Boston’s Back Bay en route to the South End.
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June 8, 2024: The Boston’s Pride for the People parade makes its way through Boston’s Back Bay en route to the South End.
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June 12, 2024: Boston EMS cares for one of two people rescued from a Dorchester fire on Carson Street.
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June 21, 2024: Hundreds of thousands of fans greeted the Boston Celtics as they paraded through the city days after winning the NBA championship.
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June 21, 2024: Hundreds of thousands of fans greeted the Boston Celtics as they paraded through the city days after winning the NBA championship.
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June 21, 2024: Hundreds of thousands of fans greeted the Boston Celtics as they paraded through the city days after winning the NBA championship.
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June 21, 2024: Hundreds of thousands of fans greeted the Boston Celtics as they paraded through the city days after winning the NBA championship.
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June 26, 2024 A dog peers out a car window in Dedham.
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June 26, 2024: Lightning dances around a departing airliner near Boston’s Logan airport.
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June 30, 2024: Lightning strikes the antenna atop Boston’s Prudential Center tower.
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July 1, 2024: A happy Karen Read walks out of the Dedham courthouse after a mistrial was declared in the case against her regarding the death of her late boyfriend, John O’Keefe.
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July 8, 2024: A great blue heron flies over small boats along Cambridge’s Charles River.
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July 12, 2024: A young pitcher gets his turn at the mound during a Winthrop Little League game.
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July 19, 2024: A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter performing a training landing atop Boston’s Mass. General Hospital.
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July 25, 2024: Medford firefighters work to free a man from an early morning three-car crash on I-93. Several non-life-threatening injuries were reported.
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Aug. 2, 2024: Smoke from western U.S. wildfires turns a Boston sunrise a unique hue as a departing airliner is seen leaving Logan airport.
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Aug. 3, 2024: Heavy weather to our south and west caused a massive, diversion-filled traffic jam at Logan airport as hundreds of passengers on diverted flights waited hours for departure.
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Aug. 9, 2024: A seagull goes about its business atop a sand sculpture of a cat left over from the Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival.
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April 12, 2024: A dying thunderstorm is seen over Quincy as a rainbow forms.
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Aug. 13, 2024: Smoke from western wildfires turns the sunset a unique hue.
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Sept. 7, 2024: A halo, or ring around the sun, is framed by an American flag in Winthrop’s French Square.
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Sept. 11, 2024: Capt. Grant Proops, a United Airlines pilot, sits during a quiet moment at the 9/11 Memorial at Boston’s Logan airport on the 23rd anniversary of the attacks on America.
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Sept. 17, 2024: The MIT crew team is framed by sunrise tinted red by western wildfires.
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Sept. 17, 2024: A garbage truck driver noticed smoke from the vehicle’s rear and drove to a Boston fire station on Huntington Street in early morning traffic.
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Sept. 17, 2024: A Cape Air Cessna 402 with one landing gear stuck in the up position approaches and then lands at Boston’s Logan airport. No one was hurt.
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Sept. 17, 2024: A Cape Air Cessna 402 with one landing gear stuck in the up position approaches and then lands at Boston’s Logan airport. No one was hurt.
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Sept. 17, 2024: Clouds made this lunar eclipse difficult to spot over Boston but added some different beauty to the scene.
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Sept. 24, 2024: Unique cloud formations over Revere Beach. (Photographed in black and white.)
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Sept. 27, 2024: The weather phenomenon called virga, or rain aloft, is seen over Boston’s Zakim Bunker Hill bridge.
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Sept. 29, 2024: “Two and 1/2 Feet” (photographed in black and white at Revere Beach.)
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Oct. 5, 2024: The moon sets over Boston shortly after a colorful sunset.
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Oct. 7, 2024: A great egret catches some lunch along the Winthrop shoreline.
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Oct. 10, 2024: Newton firefighters battle a stubborn boat fire at Newton Yacht Club on Nonantum Road.
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Oct. 10, 2024: The northern lights are seen on and near Boston’s Deer Island, thrilling people on the ground and on arriving airliners to Boston’s Logan airport alike.
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Oct. 10, 2024: The northern lights are seen on and near Boston’s Deer Island, thrilling people on the ground and on arriving airliners to Boston’s Logan airport alike.
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Oct. 21, 2024: Foliage frames Boston’s oldest MBTA trolley line near Milton. The Mattapan/Ashmont line started in 1929.
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Oct. 18, 2024: A dog walker takes a picture of the beautiful foliage at Boston’s Jamaica Pond.
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Oct. 23, 2024: Early morning fog and foliage surround bikers using Brookline’s Larz Anderson Park as their exercise venue.
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Oct. 23, 2024: Early morning fog and foliage surround bikers using Brookline’s Larz Anderson Park as their exercise venue.
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Oct. 31, 2024: A jogger makes her way along a colorful Memorial Drive in Cambridge.
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Nov. 6, 2024: A backlit fountain frames a jogger along Boston’s Esplanade.
Mark Garfinkel/NBC10 BostonNovember 8, 2024 Somerville firefighters rescued a woman from this Raymond Ave. fire today.
Nov. 8, 2024: Burning buildings on Raymond Avenue in Somerville — firefighters rescued a woman.
Mark Garfinkel/NBC10 BostonNovember 8, 2024 Somerville firefighters rescued a woman from this Raymond Ave. fire today.
Nov. 9, 2024: Wildfires continue to plague the area amid continuing drought. Here, the big fire in Lynn Woods is seen from Winthrop with Revere Beach in the foreground.
Mark Garfinkel/NBC10 BostonNovember 8, 2024 Somerville firefighters rescued a woman from this Raymond Ave. fire today.
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Nov. 22, 2024: An electric blue acara cichlid is seen in a child’s aquarium in Winthrop.
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Nov. 27, 2024: Just a day before Thanksgiving, these turkeys apparently have no concerns as they frolic along Brookline’s Pleasant Street.
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Nov. 27, 2024: Just a day before Thanksgiving, these turkeys apparently have no concerns as they frolic along Brookline’s Pleasant Street.
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Dec. 6, 2024: The Boston sunset is framed by a lobster trap Christmas Tree in the Belle Isle section of Winthrop, along the Boston city line.
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Dec. 9, 2024: A two-car crash caused this vehicle to flip on the on-ramp to the Mass. Pike west at Arlington Street. Non-life threatening injuries were reported.
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