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The former director of elder services for Quincy, Massachusetts, embezzled thousands of dollars from the city through “personal indulgences” like 153 lbs. of steak tips and using city funds as a “personal slush fund,” federal officials said Wednesday.

The state’s highest court on Wednesday upheld the controversial MBTA Communities Act as a constitutional law that the attorney general has the power to enforce with legal action, but also ruled that existing guidelines are “unenforceable” because the Healey administration failed to roll them out properly....

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Comments made by President-elect Donald Trump regarding whale safety in Massachusetts are drawing criticism from some animal experts. Trump made serious claims that Mass. is responsible for killing several of the mammals in recent months during a Mar-a-Lago news conference in which he appeared to attack renewable energy. He called it “garbage” and made clear that he wants to ban...

The man arrested on drug and weapons offenses after an AR-15 and $1 million in drugs were found at a Massachusetts-run emergency shelter is now facing federal charges. Leonardo Andujar Sanchez, 28, was charged by criminal complaint with one count of possession with intent to distribute more than 400 grams of fentanyl and one count of being an undocumented immigrant...

Hundreds of pages of notes and more than 2,500 images from the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office are now in possession of defense attorneys for Brian Walshe. His wife, Ana Walshe, was reported missing in January of 2023. Prosecutors say Brian killed Ana in their home in Cohasset, Massachusetts, on New Year’s Day, dismembering her body and discarding her remains...

A teenager is recovering after she was attacked inside a high school classroom in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Disturbing videos taken inside Chelsea High School Tuesday morning show the incident taking place. “I was mostly scared for my safety,” said the victim. In the videos, a girl can be seen throwing a chair at another girl, then attacking her with her hands...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has ordered an inspection of all state-run emergency shelters following an incident last month where a man was arrested after an AR-15 rifle and $1 million in drugs were found in a search of a Revere hotel that serves as a shelter site.

A man has admitted fatally stabbing his former girlfriend, with whom he shared two daughters, and fleeing Massachusetts, prosecutors said.

Fueled by the highest immigration levels in decades, Massachusetts saw its largest population increase in 60 years between 2023 and 2024, and the rate of domestic outmigration has significantly slowed, according to U.S Census data released last month. Between July 1, 2023 and July 1, 2024, the state’s population increased 69,603 from 7,066,568 to 7,136,171 — an increase of just...

Authorities say a teenager died after being hit by a vehicle on Monday night in Leominster, Massachusetts. Officers and fire crews responded to the Market Basket on Sack Boulevard, near the Mall at Whitney Field, shortly after 6 p.m. for a report of a pedestrian crash involving a juvenile. The child who was hit was taken to Leominster Hospital and...

A Massachusetts man accused of threatening violence against Jewish people has been arrested, police in Beverly said Monday. Matthew Scouras, a 34-year-old Beverly man, allegedly threatened to rape Jewish women and encouraged others online to shoot people outside of synagogues. Nazi paraphernalia and illegal weapons were found in a search of his Essex Street home, according to investigators. The Federal...

In a training session Monday, officers in the Boston area studied lessons to be learned from the Holocaust and the role law enforcement played. The training, created in partnership with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, examines how police were used to legitimize and enforce Nazi policies. The program, called “What You Do Matters,” provides information about how Adolf Hitler...

Inside Hygge House Books in Westborough, Massachusetts, an idea bound to make a difference was born out of a story in need of a different ending. “Just the thought of helping kids. I mean, that is where it starts,” said Sandy Burgers of Changemakers Rotary Club of Central Massachusetts. “What is more important to people than a child reading?” The...

A family is devastated after the deadly stabbing of a 19-year-old ballet dancer at his mother’s home in Brockton, Massachusetts. Kyre Ambrose was stabbed 28 times shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday, prosecutors said. He was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, where he died from his injuries. Police arrested 18-year-old Jayden Fernandez of Boston at Newton Wellesley Hospital, where they learned...

A Massachusetts man had pleaded guilty to the 2019 killing of a Worcester mother in her apartment, authorities said Monday. Thomas Bergstrom, 42, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Jennifer Vazquez-Rivera, who was found with stab wounds inside her Lapierre Street apartment on Oct. 2, 2019, according to the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office. Vazquez-Rivera died after...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has ordered an inspection of all state-run emergency shelters following an incident last month where a man was arrested after an AR-15 rifle and $1 million in drugs were found in a search of a Revere hotel that serves as a shelter site. “It’s outrageous that this individual took advantage of our shelter system to engage...

The state agency focused on health care information and analysis did not adequately monitor hospitals experiencing financial distress and failed to fine facilities and health systems for defying data reporting requirements, according to a new report from Auditor Diana DiZoglio’s office. DiZoglio’s examination of the Center for Health Information and Analysis, which also criticized the lack of information on the...

Mashpee Middle-High School was evacuated Monday morning after a fire in the building.

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Firefighters are at the scene of a fire at Mashpee Middle-High School on Monday morning. The fire department confirmed they are at the scene but had no word on the extent of the fire. The fire was reported at the school on Old Barnstable Road shortly after 9:14 a.m. Aerial video showed multiple fire vehicles at the scene, and firefighters...

A teenager was detained by police after assaulting an employee at a CVS store in Boston’s Allston neighborhood on Sunday. Boston police said they responded to a report of a disturbance at the CVS on Brighton Avenue at 6:22 p.m. Upon arrival, officers interviewed the victim, who reported that a group of teens had been causing a disturbance in the...