Massachusetts

Fire crews are battling a large fire at a strip mall in the Onset area of Wareham, Massachusetts, on Sunday afternoon. The Wareham Fire Department said in a Facebook post around 12:30 p.m. Sunday that they are on scene assisting with a structure fire on Cranberry Highway in Onset. Cranberry Highway between Red Brook Road and Main Avenue is closed....

A criminal investigation is underway in Hyannis, and residents and motorists are being urged to avoid the area. Barnstable police said in a social media post around 11:30 a.m. Sunday that they were working an active criminal investigation in the area of Bristol Avenue in Hyannis and have the road shut down. They asked that motorists and pedestrians avoid Bristol...

Somerville police say Fabio Armelio, 47, was taken into custody around 6:35 p.m. Friday when he was found in a Cherry Street basement.

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A police officer in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, is being praised after he helped evacuate residents from a burning home in the city early Friday morning. The Tewksbury Police Department says Officer Dennis Kelleher was on a nearby street when a fire was reported at 36 Mohawk Drive by a neighbor around 5:40 a.m. Kelleher responded to the house and saw heavy...

Authorities are investigating an unattended death in Hubbardston, Massachusetts, on Saturday. A man was found dead off of Brigham Street in Hubbardston on Saturday morning, according to the Worcester District Attorney’s Office. No further details on the investigation have been released. Hubbardston is a town of about 4,300 residents located about 20 miles outside of Worcester. Anyone with information is...

One person was killed in an early-morning stabbing on Saturday in Brockton, Massachusetts, authorities say. Brockton police received a 911 call shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday from a resident reporting the stabbing of a male family member at a residence on Foster Street, the Plymouth District Attorney’s Office said. Police and emergency medical personnel responded and found a man suffering...

Authorities are investigating a shooting that left a man injured Friday night in Revere, Massachusetts. Officers with the Revere Police Department responded to Floyd Street around 8:30 p.m. A man was found suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim was brought to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. His condition was not known, but the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said...

Gladior Kwesiah of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was arrested after police say he “body slammed” a woman to the ground after she rear-ended him in Attleboro, Massachusetts

Loud and overcrowded classrooms are just some of the big problems Massachusetts community college professors say they dealt with this past semester with free community college now available in the state. “We are overcapacity. We have so many students and very few faculty and staff to support those students,” Lisa Heller Boragine, a professor at Cape Cod Community College and...

A 12-year-old boy who was killed in a skiing accident at New Hampshire’s Cranmore Mountain on New Year’s Eve was a middle schooler from Weymouth, Massachusetts, his family confirmed. The mother of Jack Murray, a seventh-grader at Chapman Middle School in Weymouth, told NBC10 Boston he did more with his 12 years than most people do in a lifetime. She...

The city of Salem, Massachusetts, which famously draws massive crowds during the Halloween season for its history with the Salem Witch Trials and its current “Haunted Happenings” events, is looking at new safety measures in the wake of the deadly attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day. A rampaging driver killed 14 people and injured dozens of others on...

A school in Westwood, Massachusetts, was evacuated Friday after the power went out and reports of the smell of gas, school officials said.

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An investigation is underway following an early-morning shooting Friday in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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The question of who sent a message in a bottle, found on the beach in Beverly, Massachusetts, is a mystery no more.

An 18-year-old injured in a head-on car crash in Braintree, Massachusetts, last week has died, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday. Alexia Nixon, of Weymouth, passed away at Boston Medical Center on Tuesday night, the district attorney’s office said. She was a passenger in an SUV that was struck by an alleged drunken driver in a pickup truck...

Police haven’t yet released any information.

A police investigation is ongoing following a shooting in Cambridge, Massachusetts, early Friday morning. Cambridge police said they responded shortly after 2 a.m. to an apartment building on Magazine Street for a report of an argument followed by a gunshot. The reporting party could not provide an apartment number, and after an extensive search, police were unable to find a...

Wrentham police said it appears the dog has been neglected for a while given his emaciated condition.

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Authorities arrested a man in Revere, Massachusetts, after a semi-automatic rifle and drugs were found in a search of a hotel that serves as a state-run emergency shelter. Leonardo Sanchez was arrested after a search warrant was served at the Quality Inn on Morris Street last week. An AR-15 rifle, ammunition and about 5 kilograms of cocaine and fentanyl were...

After finding several messages in a bottle on a beach in Beverly, Massachusetts, one man is hoping to return the letters to their authors. Douglas Turnbull explained that he was wingfoiling at Lynch Park when he noticed the glass bottle in the sand. “I just looked down and there it was,” he said Thursday. Intimate letters, a drawing and photos...