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Man dead after fire in mobile home park in Peabody
As they arrived, firefighters saw flames coming through the roof of the mobile home and extended to a neighboring home, according to fire chief Jay Dowling.
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Turtleboy's defense claims DA lied about evidence, improperly used personal email
An attorney for one of Karen Read‘s most visible supporters, facing charges of witness intimidation in the case, is leveling new allegations against prosecutors. The defense team for Aidan Kearney, the blogger better known as “Turtleboy,” sent a letter to prosecutors Thursday claiming that Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey lied about evidence and improperly communicated by personal email. Kearney’s...
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Person hospitalized after Franklin explosion
An explosion at a work site Friday in Franklin, Massachusetts, sent a person to the hospital. Police said they responded to the incident on Pond Street to find that a barrel had exploded at a job site. One person was brought to the hospital with injuries, according to Franklin police. Authorities did not comment on the nature or severity of...
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Early in-person voting starts in Mass. this weekend
In towns and cities across Massachusetts, election workers are waiting with anticipation. Early voting begins Saturday and serves as the first in-person chance for Bay Staters to make their voices heard. Voting booths, ballots and volunteers all in position ready for the expected voting rush. “In the beginning and the end, it’s kind of, there’s the rushes,” said Newton Election...
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Strike suspended at 2 Omni hotels in Boston, union says
The hotel workers strike at two Boston hotels has been suspended as a tentative agreement was reached, the union announced Friday night. Workers at Omni Parker House and the Omni Boston Seaport are no longer picketing, the union 685 UNITE HERE Local 26 announced, with a vote to ratify the contract set for Sunday. The union didn’t release details on...
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Karen Read appears on Dateline as high court prepares to hear her appeal
In Friday’s edition of Canton Confidential, we look at Karen Read’s Dateline interview, her first trial’s price tag for taxpayers and other recent headlines in the high-profile case.
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Head of Mass. State Police unit that investigated Karen Read transferred out
Police announced Friday evening that Det. Lt. Brian Tully, who has been under internal investigation, has been transition to a different department for the time being.
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Inmate charged in 2022 attack on MCI-Shirley corrections officer pleads guilty
A man who was charged with attacking a corrections officer when he was housed as an inmate at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute in Shirley in 2022 pled guilty Friday, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office.
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Teen arrested in attack on person with disability in Danvers, police say
A teenage boy has been arrested in an attack on a person with a disability near a Danvers, Massachusetts, middle school, police said Friday. The 15-year-old, whose name wasn’t shared, was arrested about 1:30 p.m. Friday over the attack six days earlier in the area of Holten Richmond Middle School and Plains Park, Danvers police said. He faces charges of...
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Employer cited in death of worker crushed in partial collapse under Hanson home
The death of a worker crushed by part of a Hanson, Mass., building’s foundation in February was “entirely preventable,” according to OSHA, which has cited the man’s employer.
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Huge turnout expected as Head of the Charles kicks off Friday
It’s sure to be a busy weekend in both Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the 59th Head of the Charles Regatta kicking off Friday morning. You can watch a livestream of all the weekend’s events here. Over the three-day event, hundreds of thousands of spectators will come out to watch the races. And with this weekend’s beautiful, unseasonably warm weather,...
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Head of the Charles Regatta begins today
Over the 3-day event, hundreds of thousands of spectators will come out to watch the races.
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Mass. Question 4: Should some psychedelic drugs be legal?
Should some hallucinogenic drugs be legalized for use in Massachusetts? That is what Question 4 asks Bay State voters to decide. If approved, the measure would allow five psychedelics — psilocybin, psilocyn, mescaline, dimethyltryptamine (also known as DMT, the psychoactive ingredient in the drug ayahuasca) and ibogaine — to be grown, shared, used at home and offered by licensed professionals...
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Person shot in Boston
10/18/24 UPDATE: Boston police said Friday morning the victim had died from his injuries. Police are investigating a shooting Thursday night in Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood. A person was shot near the intersection of Huntington Avenue and South Huntington Avenue, near the Riverway stop on the MBTA’s Green Line sometime before 10 p.m., according to police. Police said Friday night...
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After suspension for late-night crash that injured family, Brockton police officer promoted
An Internal Affairs probe reviewed the circumstances of a crash involving an off-duty Brockton police officer after he left a bar at closing time. Even though the police chief imposed a three-day unpaid suspension for the incident that injured a family, Stanley David received a promotion to lieutenant.
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Man charged in 4-year-old daughter's death at Worcester home
A 4-year-old girl died after being rushed to a hospital from a home in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, and her father is now facing charges, according to court documents. Prosecutors had said that Francisco Ortiz, a 34-year-old from Worcester, was arraigned in court Wednesday and held without bail on assault and battery charges in connection with a child’s serious injuries....
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Does this winter have much snow in store for New England? Here's NOAA's latest look
What do the weather patterns mean for winter weather in Massachusetts and New England? Here’s what the 2024 outlook from NOAA suggests.
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Traffic delays after 2 trucks crash on I-95 in Lynnfield
The two right lanes were closed, transportation officials said.
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What did Karen Read prosecutors say in response to her team's appeal? Read the brief
Prosecutors in the high-profile Karen Read case submitted their response to her team’s appeal to Massachusetts’ highest court Wednesday to have two counts in her murder case dismissed. Read is accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV during a snowstorm in Canton in January 2022, but after a mistrial was declared in the initial...
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30 Harvard professors hold ‘study-in' protest at library
Dozens of professors at Harvard University staged a “study-in” protest at the school’s library Wednesday, in solidarity with students disciplined for taking part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration. Thirty professors sat down inside Widener Library to take a stand against the university’s decision to suspend 12 students from using the facility. “I can’t imagine that a university would want to punish...