Massachusetts

Who gets to keep an engagement ring if a wedding is called off? That’s what the highest court in Massachusetts was asked to decide with a $70,000 ring at the center of the dispute. The court ultimately ruled Friday that an engagement ring must be returned to the person who purchased it, ending a six-decade state rule that required judges...

Shannon O’Brien has appealed her firing as chairwoman of the Cannabis Control Commission to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, arguing that the facts of her situation “were not properly found, and even taking them as true, fail to rise to the heightened grounds for removal.” Treasurer Deborah Goldberg fired O’Brien, herself a former state treasurer and Democratic Party nominee for governor,...

A man died after crashing his motorcycle into a pickup truck in Norwell, Massachusetts, on Thursday, prosecutors said. Investigators believe the pickup, a Toyota Tacoma, was turning left into a business on Pond Street near one entrance to Accord Park Drive when the motorcycle being driven by Jacob Foss, a 28-year-old from Pembroke, hit its passenger-side door about 1:30 p.m.,...

A man accused of stabbing a teenage girl at a Cape Cod store on Thursday was held without bail following his arraignment on Friday, where a doctor recommended he be evaluated at Bridgewater State Hospital.

Police officers were justified in their use of force on a man who died in police custody last year after two of his adult relatives were stabbed at a home in Dedham, Massachusetts, according to the final report from the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office.

A home security camera captured a wild explosion and fire in a residential neighborhood in Woburn, Massachusetts, earlier this week. Woburn fire said they received a call around 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday for a burn complaint. Upon arrival, firefighters found heavy fire involving two cars and trees, with extension to nearby homes and power lines. The entire incident was captured...

A pedestrian was seriously injured and the dog she was walking killed when they were hit by a car in front of a church in Mashpee, Massachusetts, on Friday morning.

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Dry conditions and warm temperatures continue to fuel brush fires across Massachusetts.

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Schools are closed in two Massachusetts cities on Friday as teachers are out on strike.

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A pedestrian was seriously injured and the dog she was walking killed when they were hit by a car in front of a church in Mashpee, Massachusetts, on Friday morning. Mashpee police said they responded, along with Mashpee fire, to a report of a car versus pedestrian crash around 7:21 a.m. on Job’s Fishing Road. Arriving officers found a woman...

High school and college students in Massachusetts are among the people of color around the country who have been receiving racist texts following Election Day. Stoughton Public Schools said several students of color at Stoughton High School reported receiving a racist message on Thursday. The text referred to slavery and the recipient being “selected to pick cotton at the nearest...

Schools are closed in two Massachusetts cities on Friday as teachers go on strike. Teachers in Beverly and Gloucester plan to picket as they continue to negotiate a new contract. Well, they’ve been in negotiations without a contract since February – and have reached an impasse. So instead of being in the classrooms today, teachers will be picketing outside these...

A nationwide investigation is underway into a series of racist spam text messages sent to people in the days after this week’s election. Some students in Massachusetts reported receiving the texts.

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Massachusetts is under another red flag warning Friday, as continued dry, warm conditions are fueling brush fires across the state. Several communities are dealing with brush fires right now, and new hotspots are continuing to pop up in the central and western parts of the state. Crews have been working tirelessly to contain the blazes, but it’s proven to be...

There is a red flag warning across Massachusetts on Friday, as the dry, warm conditions are fueling brush fires across the state.

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The school doors in two cities will remain locked Friday as teachers go on strike. Teachers in Beverly and Gloucester plan to picket as they continue to negotiate a new contract.

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Ahead of the retrial of Karen Read, Massachusetts prosecutors are asking for records of an interview she did last year with Boston Magazine. Read is facing multiple charges, including murder, in the 2022 death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe in Canton. Prosecutors say she hit O’Keefe, her boyfriend, with her SUV and left him for dead, while Read has...

When a 12-year-old boy with autism disappeared on Halloween night, Chelsea police and Massachusetts State Police search and rescue teams deployed to look for him. The nonverbal child was found safe in Boston hours later and reunited with his family. “Thank god this juvenile was found in Boston. There was no way we could have found him if it wasn’t...

Kristin Carboni spends her days keeping a pack of dogs on the move. The Brewster, Massachusetts, homeowner runs a boarding and training business called Peace Love Dogs at her wooded property on Cape Cod. Earlier this year, Carboni and her husband decided to install an agility course to get the canine customers the exercise they need. However, before the dogs...

Wildlife advocates are sounding the alarm once again about rodenticide, poison used to control rat populations, after sick foxes were found at a mall in Leominster, Massachusetts.