Massachusetts

A driver sped from New Hampshire into Massachusetts before crashing on an I-95 exit ramp Wednesday — the second high-speed chase between the two states this week.

Authorities on Cape Cod are asking the public to avoid the area of an active police investigation Wednesday. Barnstable police say the investigation is going on along Race Lane between Route 149 and Osterville West Barnstable Road. No further information was immediately available. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

A worker was seriously hurt when he received an electric shock while hanging holiday lights on a tree in Wellesley, Massachusetts, on Wednesday morning, police said. The contractor was rushed to the hospital from Falmouth Circle with life-threatening injuries after the incident about 10 a.m., according to Wellesley police. The man was using a pole to string up the holiday...

Emergency crews are at the scene of a reported 5-vehicle crash with entrapment on Interstate 495 in Westborough, Massachusetts, on Wednesday afternoon. The Westborough Fire Department said in a social media post shortly after 1:30 p.m. that they have multiple units on scene of the crash on I-495 north between the Route 9 ramps. Multiple injuries have been reported, and...

A vehicle speeding away from police in N.H. crashed while exiting I-95 in Boxford, Mass., leaving its driver with serious injuries, police said.

Two people have been arrested after a man who police say was an innocent bystander was shot in a hotel lobby in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, last month.

It has finally happened. All three teacher strikes on the North Shore are done and students are back in the classroom.

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Levels of COVID-19 in the Boston area are remarkably low ahead of Thanksgiving this year, according to the region’s latest wastewater data. The virus typically ramps up this time of year, but the most recent update on the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority’s COVID wastewater page shows that coronavirus levels have remained largely static over the past three weeks, even decreasing through...

The owners of dozens of Burger King and Popeyes franchises across Massachusetts have been fined for violations of child labor and workers’ rights laws after investigations brought by the Attorney General’s Office, officials announced Tuesday. The citations target two different sets of owners – Northeast Foods LLC, which operates the Burger King locations, and Amish Parikh and Ashish Parikh, who...

The Essex County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday that four people — two 15-year-old Danvers residents, a 14-year-old from Danvers and a 15-year-old from Lawrence — had been indicted by a grand jury Monday.

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From walking the picket lines in Marblehead and Beverly to dancing in the drop off lines, it was clear Wednesday that students, teachers, and maybe especially parents were overjoyed to have their schools reopened following the teachers’ strikes. “Oh my gosh, we are so happy, even though it’s a half day. My poor kids were getting bored and we love...

The last of the North Shore teacher strikes ended Tuesday.

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Prosecutors announced indictments against four teenagers more than a month after an attack on a person with a disability near a middle school in Danvers, Massachusetts. The Essex County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday that four people — two 15-year-old Danvers residents, a 14-year-old from Danvers and a 15-year-old from Lawrence — had been indicted by a grand jury Monday....

Top Democrats suggested they’re open to Gov. Maura Healey’s legislative push to minimize upheaval for hundreds of commercial drivers, in the process lamenting a “bipartisan failure” that contributed to the need for action so late in the lawmaking term. With only five weeks remaining in the 2024-2025 term, the Transportation Committee dove in Tuesday on a bill Healey filed five...

From the busy roads of Dorchester to the quaint main street of Ayer, the closure of two health care centers remains a focal point. Carney Hospital and Nashoba Valley Medical Center each shuttered during Steward Healthcare’s bankruptcy, depriving those living nearby of an emergency room, primary care and pharmacy services. For Nashoba Valley nurse Jenn Watson, the last few months...

Carney Hospital and Nashoba Valley Medical Center each shuttered during Steward Healthcare’s bankruptcy, depriving those living nearby of an emergency room, primary care and pharmacy services. But talks about reopening the two facilities continue.

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Court documents released Tuesday revealed new details in the case of a man charged with threatening to shoot fellow moviegoers at a showing of “Wicked” in Massachusetts over the weekend.

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In 1996, a female trooper who had been with the Massachusetts State Police for four years was appointed to work in the Middlesex Narcotics Unit. As she began the new position, the woman noticed her male counterparts had been assigned a senior trooper as a mentor. She received no such assignment.  That’s when the female trooper said a sergeant in...

Two plane collisions at Logan Airport remain under investigation. Aviation experts say incidents like these are rare, and it’s certainly not what you’d want to hear leading into a busy holiday travel week.

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A 16-year-old is facing a murder charge after a deadly June crash in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood.