Massachusetts

Schools are closed in two Massachusetts cities on Friday as teachers go on strike. Teachers in Beverly and Gloucester plan to picket as they continue to negotiate a new contract. Well, they’ve been in negotiations without a contract since February – and have reached an impasse. So instead of being in the classrooms today, teachers will be picketing outside these...

A nationwide investigation is underway into a series of racist spam text messages sent to people in the days after this week’s election. Some students in Massachusetts reported receiving the texts.

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There is a red flag warning across Massachusetts on Friday, as the dry, warm conditions are fueling brush fires across the state. Several communities are dealing with brush fires right now, and new ones are continuing to pop up in the central and western parts of the state. Crews have been working tirelessly to contain the blazes, but it’s proven...

There is a red flag warning across Massachusetts on Friday, as the dry, warm conditions are fueling brush fires across the state.

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The school doors in two cities will remain locked Friday as teachers go on strike. Teachers in Beverly and Gloucester plan to picket as they continue to negotiate a new contract.

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Ahead of the retrial of Karen Read, Massachusetts prosecutors are asking for records of an interview she did last year with Boston Magazine. Read is facing multiple charges, including murder, in the 2022 death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe in Canton. Prosecutors say she hit O’Keefe, her boyfriend, with her SUV and left him for dead, while Read has...

When a 12-year-old boy with autism disappeared on Halloween night, Chelsea police and Massachusetts State Police search and rescue teams deployed to look for him. The nonverbal child was found safe in Boston hours later and reunited with his family. “Thank god this juvenile was found in Boston. There was no way we could have found him if it wasn’t...

Kristin Carboni spends her days keeping a pack of dogs on the move. The Brewster, Massachusetts, homeowner runs a boarding and training business called Peace Love Dogs at her wooded property on Cape Cod. Earlier this year, Carboni and her husband decided to install an agility course to get the canine customers the exercise they need. However, before the dogs...

Wildlife advocates are sounding the alarm once again about rodenticide, poison used to control rat populations, after sick foxes were found at a mall in Leominster, Massachusetts.

A young man from Fitchburg who became partially paralyzed from a hockey injury and was told he would never walk again, but three years later, he is working to prove that belief wrong and get back on the ice.

The SafetyNet program aims to help track endangered people, like children with autism who wander off.

A man was arrested Thursday after allegedly stabbing a teenage girl at a Cape Cod store. Police in Barnstable, Massachusetts, said the stabbing happened Thursday at the Dollar Tree in Hyannis. They arrested 31-year-old Hyannis resident Nikolas Rescigno. The victim, described by police as a juvenile, was brought to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Witnesses told police the girl...

A 74-foot-tall fir tree was cut down in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and loaded up for a trip to Rockefeller Center, where it will be decorated in crystals and lights and become among the most famous Christmas trees in the world....

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Teachers in two cities on the North Shore of Massachusetts announced Thursday that they had voted to go on strike. The Union of Gloucester Educators and the Beverly Teachers Association say their members voted overwhelmingly in favor of the action. The Gloucester union said on social media that over 98% of the district’s educators voted to authorize the strike. Julia...

Massachusetts officials declared a major drought across the state on Thursday due to an unprecedented lack of rainfall over the past two months. “After more than a month of nearly no rain and devastating wildfires, Massachusetts is clearly experiencing significant drought conditions,” Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Rebecca Tepper said in a statement. “This autumn has felt different for all...

A former Stoneham, Massachusetts, police officer and his brother, who works as a contractor, have pleaded guilty in a bribery and kickback scheme that netted them millions of dollars in contract payments from the state’s Mass Save program. Joseph Ponzo, 51, of Stoneham and Christopher Ponzo, 50, of North Reading, are accused of bribing an associate with tens of thousands...

Brush fires are burning in Breakhart Reservation and just off Route 1 in Saugus, Massachusetts, on Thursday.

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No less than 24 hours after Donald Trump was elected president, a new image was projected on the water tower in Hanson, Massachusetts.

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About 40 people were displaced, but no injuries were reported following an overnight fire in Peabody, Massachusetts.

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Police are investigating after a woman was shot and killed in Worcester, Massachusetts, early Thursday morning. 

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