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Spencer’s fire chief said no injuries were reported after a fire broke out at an East Ave. home and quickly spread to another, destroying both and damaging a third.

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Two homes were destroyed and a third was damaged when a massive fire broke out Sunday in Spencer, Massachusetts, just days before Christmas, according to the fire department, which adds that responding firefighters were met with an unusual scene on this bitterly cold December night. Spencer Fire Chief Robert Parsons tells NBC10 Boston that the blaze started in a home...

Two people were rescued and several others were also injured, including a firefighter, after a fire broke out at a home in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Sunday morning. Fitchburg’s fire chief tells NBC10 Boston that the department was notified around 9:30 a.m. about a reported building fire at a three-family home on Ashburnham Street, with smoke showing from a mile away. Responding...

The Brockton Fire Department says Firefighter Jeffrey Albanese suffered a cardiac arrest on Dec. 9 while responding to call and succumbed to his injures on Dec. 21.

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There was no immediate word on the condition of those who were injured in the fire on Ashburnham Street, which is under investigation.

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Roadways were slick Friday as a winter storm brought more snow than originally expected, leading to 200 crashes across the state, more than half of which were considered serious. Massachusetts State Police say of the 200 crashes they responded to Friday, 106 of them were serious, meaning they resulted in more than $1,000 in damage or injury. Many were out...

Two elementary schools in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood are merging, but parents and teachers are frustrated by plans to move students around during the school year. The Philbrick School and the Sumner School will join to become a single school serving pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, with a new setting in the former Washington Irving School on Cummins Highway. Fifth- and sixth-graders...

A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty to giving his dog fentanyl before stabbing the animal to death earlier this year. Jonathan Paluzzi, 45, of Kingston, received a sentence of five to seven years in state prison after entering a guilty plea to two counts each of animal cruelty and witness intimidation, the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office said Friday. Paluzzi was...

A man has pleaded guilty to 10 racially-targeted burglaries in four Massachusetts communities in 2021. The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office said Friday that 32-year-old New York resident Juan Castano had pleaded guilty to 21 indictments in connection with burglaries at homes of Asian and South Asian families in Newton, Wellesley, Andover and Quincy. A codefendant, Wendy Reyes, is due...

The snow that fell in the Boston area Friday evening brought several inches to a wide swath of the area — and half a foot to parts of the city itself.

A couple from Bridgewater, Massachusetts, have again taken on the roles of Santa’s little helpers this Christmas, handing out hundreds of presents to economically disadvantaged children. Their holiday deeds began when Stephanie and Mark Sabourin bought a decorative holiday mailbox from Lowes last year, which people began filling with letters to Santa. “What we didn’t expect was that people would...

A woman is dead after a fire broke out Thursday in a wooded area in Somerville, Massachusetts, according to officials, who say this appears accidental in the early stages of their investigation. According to the State Fire Marshal’s office, the Somerville Fire Department responded just after 4 p.m. to the woods near Alewife Brook Parkway and Broadway and found heavy...

A man was injured in a shooting at a Taco Bell in New Bedford, Massachusetts, early Thursday morning and another man has been taken into custody. Officers responded to the fast food restaurant on Coggeshall Street just before 1 a.m. for a report of shots fired. The victim was found in the lobby and taken to a local hospital with…

Two years appear to have made a world of difference for the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities. At this point in 2022, the DPU was in a harsh spotlight due to its work — or lack thereof — overseeing safety at the MBTA. Federal investigators concluded the DPU had been falling short on its responsibilities as the state agency responsible...

Households in the Greater Boston area spent an average of $101,247 per year across 2022 and 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday, a third higher than the nationwide average annual household expenditure of $75,172. At a time of regular talk on Beacon Hill of the negative consequences of Massachusetts’ high cost of living, the new data from...

Police arrested a man they say broke into a Massachusetts gas station, stole a car and set it ablaze on Duxbury Beach. The Marshfield Police Department said it was helping the Duxbury Police Department on Thursday to investigate the car fire, which appeared to have been intentionally set. The vehicle was registered in Marshfield, where its owner said it had...

A holiday event serving homeless children in Brockton, Massachusetts, has been canceled due to financial challenges, school committee members say. Over the years, Brockton’s Dinner for Champions grew so much that it moved from Brockton High School in 2018 to Lombardo’s Event Center in 2022 — and to Gillette Stadium last year. “It started off with 100 families and it...

Two Iranian nationals, one a dual citizen who lives in Massachusetts, have been indicted in connection with a drone strike that killed U.S. service members overseas. The FBI arrested 42-year-old Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi at his Natick home on Monday. The same day, 38-year-old Mohammad Abedini was arrested in Milan, Italy, where he lives. Federal authorities said the arrests were related...

The man who murdered his cousin’s wife and their three kids in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, in March 2018 was sentenced to consecutive periods of life without parole in a Worcester court Thursday. Matthew Locke, of Ware, was found guilty last month on four murder charges in the deaths of 38-year-old Sara Bermudez, 8-year-old Madison Bermudez, 6-year-old James Bermudez and 2-year-old...