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Hadley man pleads guilty to illegally importing, selling plutonium

A Hadley man pleaded guilty to illegally importing and selling radioactive material from Russia. Jacob Miller, 44, already a convicted felon, admitted to importing plutonium...

Chilly Air, Frosty Night Ahead

The feel of Fall is in the air today as a chilly breeze holds on through midday, gusting 20-30mph. Despite a ton of sunshine, highs...

Car crashes into pole in Lynn, sending 1 to hospital

One person was sent to the hospital when a car crashed into a utility pole in Lynn, snapping it and taking down wires Monday night....

Healey comments on potential MGB nurses strike

Governor Maura Healey is requesting Mass General Brigham and its nurses reach a resolution ahead of an anticipated strike. “I’ve been clear with both parties,”...

Jury selection in Matthew Farwell murder trial set to begin

Former Stoughton police officer Matthew Farwell is set to go on trial. Farwell is accused of killing Sandra Birchmore, a young woman he allegedly began...

Stutzle’s 3-point game, Ullmark and Ersson power Senators to a 4-1 win over Bruins

BOSTON (AP) — Tim Stutzle had two goals and an assist and goalies Linus Ullmark and Samuel Ersson combined to stop 18 of 19 shots...

Former press secretary Karoline Leavitt lands her next gig: Fox News contributor

NEW YORK (AP) — Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has found her next chapter: She is heading to Fox News. Leavitt will serve as an...

Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US

NEW YORK (AP) — Pennsylvania has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, state health officials said Monday, making it the largest state outbreak in more...

Police searching for driver in deadly hit-and-run on I-93N in Wilmington

A man was killed in a hit-and-run on Interstate 93 northbound in Wilmington Monday afternoon, and authorities are now searching for the driver, according to...

Police searching for driver in deadly hit-and-run on I-93 north in Wilmington

A man was killed in a hit-and-run on Interstate 93 northbound in Wilmington Monday afternoon, and authorities are now searching for the driver, according to...

Man hit and killed by vehicle on I-93 north in Wilmington

A man was hit and killed by a truck on Interstate 93 northbound in Wilmington Monday afternoon, according to Massachusetts State Police and the Middlesex...

Man accused of intentionally hitting 2 Bridgewater State University students with car

A Weymouth man was arraigned Monday on charges that he intentionally hit two Bridgewater State University students with his car during a homecoming event on...

JUST ONE STATION: Man arrested for throwing hammer at woman in Beverly in ‘random’ attack

A 32-year-old man was arrested Monday after he was caught on camera throwing a hammer at a woman in Beverly in a “random” attack, police...

JUST ONE STATION: Man arrested for throwing hammer at woman in ‘random’ attack in Beverly

A 32-year-old man was arrested Monday after he was caught on camera throwing a hammer at a woman in Beverly in a “random” attack, police...

Massachusetts State Police continue search for missing 37-year-old man off Manchester-by-the-Sea

The search continued Monday for a 37-year-old Hamilton man who went missing off the coast of Singing Beach in Manchester-by-the-Sea, after a boat with three...

Patriots hand Bills first loss of season with bounce-back performance from Drake Maye

The New England Patriots had a big bounce-back win at Buffalo Sunday afternoon, handing the Bills their first loss of the season and getting themselves...

3 juveniles arrested after home invasion in Norwood

Three juveniles were arrested after a home invasion and armed robbery over the weekend in Norwood. Police say the victim was pistol-whipped and that the...

Bright, brisk and breezy for your Tuesday

Happy Monday! It’s been a wonderful day. Bright skies with highs in the low 70s. It’s been windy, but with how warm it was this...

Mother and son from Bermuda named as passengers on missing medical flight from Bermuda to Boston

The two people aboard an air ambulance that crashed in the waters off Massachusetts over the weekend while flying from Bermuda to Boston were identified...

Tracy, Breslow address media after losing Wild Card Series to Yankees

The Red Sox fell short of October after a domination at the hands of their hated rivals to cap off the rollercoaster season that saw...

Cornell building is sprayed with graffiti blasting school’s response to gang rape complaint

ITHACA, New York (AP) — Cornell’s main administration building was splashed with graffiti and a glass door was broken overnight as student groups planned a...

Former ‘American Idol’ singer Caleb Flynn awaits sentencing for wife’s murder

A former music pastor in Ohio who appeared briefly on “American Idol” was set to be sentenced Monday after a jury convicted him of murdering...

Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin says his 22nd NHL season will be his last

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin said Monday that his 22nd season in the NHL will be his last, beginning the farewell tour for the longtime...

Classes canceled at Medford High School due to sewage backup

Classes are canceled at Medford High School Monday due to a sewage backup and the building has been evacuated. No injuries are reported and the...

YWCA opens in Methuen as location to support survivors of sex crimes, domestic abuse

New life was brought to a building with a dark past on Saturday in Methuen. Officials with the YWCA of Northeastern Massachusetts cut the ribbon...

Healey, state officials, announce winter energy bill relief for Massachusetts

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announced on Monday new actions to help families in the state lower their heating and electric bills as the winter months...

2 people killed, including a student, after Florida school bus rolls over in crash, sheriff says

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — A school bus flipped over onto its roof during a multivehicle crash in central Florida on Monday morning, killing two...

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Former Prince Andrew files a legal action to quash warrants that led to searches of his residence

LONDON (AP) — The former Prince Andrew has filed a legal action challenging the warrants that authorized searches at two of his homes earlier this...

Boston native Karl Deisseroth among winners of Nobel Prize in medicine

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win Nobel Prize in medicine.

Dry Pattern, Crisp Air

That’s more like it! Classic early October weather returned over the weekend with a sparkling Saturday as temps ran up into the 60s to near...

RV goes up in flames on I-90 Sunday afternoon

An RV was engulfed in flames in Russell on Sunday afternoon. The blaze occurred on I-90 West. Flames and smoke were coming out of the...

Firefighter injured when house fire reignites in Canton

Firefighters returned to the scene of a house fire in Canton overnight. Crews doused a home on Hickory Lane with water as smoke continued to...

18-year-old from Lynn accused of stabbing woman to death due back in court

An 18-year-old from Lynn accused of stabbing a woman to death, seemingly at random, will be back in court Monday for a status hearing. Bishop...

Jury selection in ex-cop murder trial to begin Tuesday, Matthew Farwell charged in murder of Sandra Birchmore

Jury selection will begin Tuesday in the murder trial of former Stoughton police officer Matthew Farwell. Farwell is charged with killing 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore in...

Person injured in multi-alarm fire in Canton

One person was injured in a house fire in Canton on Sunday afternoon. Crews responding to a reported structure fire on Hickory Lane closed several...

9 hospitalized after limousine crash in Springfield

Nine people were taken to the hospital after a crash involving a limousine in Springfield on Saturday night, officials said. Emergency crews responding to a...

9 hospitalized after crash involving limousine in Springfield

Nine people were taken to the hospital after a crash involving a limousine in Springfield on Saturday night, officials said. Emergency crews responding to a...

FLAG Flag Football volunteers pack hygiene product kits for area youth

FLAG Flag Football held its 4th annual Impact Day in collaboration with Hope & Comfort Hygiene Hub on Saturday. In an effort to give back...

Battle over transparency on Beacon Hill will be on the ballot in November

A battle over transparency on Beacon Hill will take center stage at the ballot box this November. Question 1 would expand the state’s public records...

Driver facing charges after allegedly intentionally hitting 2 students at Bridgewater State University

A driver is facing criminal charges after police say they intentionally hit two students at Bridgewater State University on Saturday morning, officials said. One of...

Uxbridge High School student, 15, killed in crash

A 15-year-old Uxbridge High School student was killed in a crash on Saturday night, officials said. Officers responding to a reported single-vehicle crash in the...

15-year-old Uxbridge HS student killed in crash

A 15-year-old Uxbridge High School student was killed in a crash on Saturday night, officials said. Officers responding to a reported single-vehicle crash in the...

Ample sunshine, seasonable temps this week

Happy Sunday! We’ve got some isolated sprinkles/showers out there now and we will for the rest of this evening, but looking at the week ahead…one...

Maye overcomes his two turnovers with 3 TD passes in Patriots’ 29-26 win over Bills

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Drake Maye threw three touchdown passes, including Efton Chism’s one-handed catch with 1:50 remaining, and the New England Patriots defeated...

Showers Possible Sunday

After a dry an chilly start this morning, some showers are possible as a storm system moves in from the south. Temperatures in some spots...

Tennessee’s prisons chief is resigning after failed execution of Christa Pike

The head of Tennessee’s prison system is resigning, Gov. Bill Lee announced Saturday, the first major staff shake-up since Christa Pike’s stunning failed execution left...

Teens may face criminal charges after fights at Whitman-Hanson football game

Some teens may be facing criminal charges in connection with a series of fights at a Whitman-Hanson High School football game on Friday night, officials...

What to know about the investigation into Cornell University gang rape allegations

An intense, public outcry over a woman’s account of being gang-raped at a Cornell University fraternity house prompted New York’s governor this week to angrily...

Coast Guard suspends search for missing boater, 37, off Manchester-by-the-Sea

The US Coast Guard has suspended its search in the water off Manchester-by-the-Sea for the last of three people aboard a fishing boat that went...

Coast Guard suspends search for missing boater off Manchester-by-the-Sea

The US Coast Guard has suspended its search in the water off Manchester-by-the-Sea for the last of three people aboard a fishing boat that went...

Coast Guard assisting with search for missing boater off Manchester-by-the-Sea

More than a dozen boats are searching the water off Singing Beach in Manchester-by-the-Sea on Saturday night for the last of three people aboard a...

Cool Sunday, brisk and breezy week ahead

Happy Saturday! It was a STUNNER of a day. Certainly much cooler than our highs in the 80s yesterday, but still seasonable. Overall this week...

Search suspended for 6 people on missing medical flight from Bermuda to Boston off Nantucket

Authorities on Sunday suspended the search off the Massachusetts coast for six people on an air ambulance that disappeared during a flight from Bermuda to...

Search suspended for 6 people on missing medical flight from Bermuda to Boston

Authorities on Sunday suspended the search off the Massachusetts coast for six people on an air ambulance that disappeared during a flight from Bermuda to...

Crews find ‘debris field’ from 6-person medical flight missing over the Atlantic en route to Boston

Searchers found a “debris field” off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, from an air ambulance that was carrying six people when it vanished over the...

Coast Guard searching for plane with 6 aboard that lost contact on trip from Bermuda to Boston

NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — An air ambulance vanished over the Atlantic early Saturday with six people aboard while flying from Bermuda to Boston, triggering a...

Crews respond after driver crashes into yard in Revere

Emergency crews were called to a crash in Revere overnight that left a vehicle on a front yard. Police officers and firefighters could be seen...

Stabbing in Downtown Crossing leaves victim with life-threatening injuries

A person was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being stabbed in Downtown Crossing late Friday night, officials said. Officers responding to a...

Marblehead community mourns loss of star high school athlete who died suddenly

The Marblehead community is mourning the loss of Owen Coyne, a three-sport athlete and co-captain of the Marblehead High School football team. On Friday, the...

Pilot stabbing raises aviation security questions, further unsettles a region shaken by US-Iran war

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — This week’s attack on a pilot by a co-pilot who tried to crash a Tel Aviv-bound flight left the region’s travel industry...

Brother of Boston teacher receives kidney transplant through organ donation by school custodian

A special celebration was held at Boston Arts Academy Friday to celebrate the life-saving gift from one of the school’s custodians benefitting a teacher’s younger...

New video shows deadly police-involved shooting in Cambridge, judge rules officers’ actions justified

New police body camera video released Friday shows the moment two Cambridge police officers shot and killed a man who was armed with a gun...

Christa Pike on a ventilator and unconscious after failed Tennessee execution, attorneys say

Christa Pike was placed on a ventilator and remained unconscious in a hospital in the hours after her failed execution in Tennessee, her attorneys said in a court...

Police bodycam footage of Luigi Mangione’s arrest released

NEW YORK (AP) — Police bodycam footage released Friday shows the moment officers located and arrested Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s in connection with the shooting...

Woman killed when car slammed into hospital building in Jamaica Plain identified

The woman killed when a car crashed into a building at Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain Thursday has been identified, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s...

Man accused of sexual assault at Cambridge Planet Fitness appears in court

A man who was arrested after he allegedly sexually assaulted multiple women in the locker room at a gym in Cambridge on Thursday morning appeared...

Final pre-trial hearing held in Matthew Farwell murder case ahead of jury selection

The final pre-trial hearing was held Friday in the murder trial of Matthew Farwell, a former Stoughton police officer accused of killing 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore...

Fall feel back in the air this weekend

Happy Friday! What season is it?! While it felt like summer today in the 80s, we are going to cool right back down this weekend....

Red Sox say Mickey Gasper has undergone successful right biceps tendon repair

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Red Sox first baseman and catcher Mickey Gasper has undergone what the team says was a successful repair of his right...

Christian Gonzalez, Christian Barmore to miss game against Buffalo with shoulder injuries

Patriots Head Coach Mike Vrabel announced on Friday that star CB Christian Gonzalez and DT Christian Barmore will not play in Sunday’s matchup against the...

CBS announces Tony Romo’s permanent exit following arrest for operating a vehicle while intoxicated

CBS Sports and Tony Romo have officially parted ways, one month after the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback pleaded no contest to charges of operating a...

Kayaker helps elderly pair out of water after their car went into lake in Hamilton

A good Samaritan rescued two people in their 80s after their car went into a lake in Hamilton Friday morning, according to police. The Hamilton Police and Hamilton Fire...

Good Samaritan pulls elderly pair from water after their car went into a lake in Hamilton

A good Samaritan rescued two people in their 80s after their car went into a lake Friday morning in Hamilton. Police say that around 10:08...

Kennedy Center Honors to be held at Capital One Arena amid fight over adding Trump’s name

This year’s Kennedy Center Honors will be held at Washington’s Capital One Arena, not the riverfront building that’s been at the center of a legal...

4,000 nurses with Brigham and Women’s Hospital plan to go on strike October 14

Thousands of nurses with Brigham and Women’s Hospital say they plan to go on strike this month. The union said 4,000 nurses will walk off...

Hochul says Cornell rape accuser was ‘failed’ by people obligated to protect her

NEW YORK (AP) — The woman who accused members of a Cornell University fraternity of gang rape was “failed” by people obligated to protect her,...

NY governor says Cornell rape accuser was ‘failed’ by people obligated to protect her

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday that the woman who accused members of a Cornell University fraternity of gang rape...

US adds disappointing 29,000 jobs and unemployment ticks up to 4.2% in September

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added a disappointing 29,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked up last month, the government reported Friday, a month before...

Pope Leo seeks status update of Francis’ divisive opening to divorced and remarried Catholics

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Ten years after Pope Francis sent shock waves through the Catholic Church with his outreach to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics,...

Brockton officials seek public’s help finding missing puppy

Animal control officers in Brockton are seeking the public’s help to find a missing puppy. Officials said a French bulldog was stolen from its owner’s...

Augtober??

August or October? Today will feel more like August than October with temperatures climbing to the lower 80s along with some humidity too. Whether you...

Massachusetts man charged with cyberstalking podcaster and former Trump official Katie Miller

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man was arrested Thursday in a federal case alleging he cyberstalked conservative podcaster and former Trump administration official Katie Miller,...

Water main break near South Station in Boston

Work is underway on Federal Street in Boston to repair a water main break that began late Thursday night. Officials with the Boston Water and...

Farwell’s request to move Birchmore trial out of state denied

Former Stoughton Police Officer Matthew Farwell’s latest request to move his murder trial out of Massachusetts has been rejected. Farwell is accused of killing 23-year-old...

NY governor appoints special prosecutor to oversee investigation of alleged gang rape at Cornell

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s governor appointed a special prosecutor Thursday to oversee an investigation into a woman’s allegations that she was raped at...

Westboro weighs proposal to bring Amazon drone delivery to town

Westboro leaders are considering a proposal to bring Amazon drone delivery to the town, but at a meeting Thursday, residents raised concerns about noise, privacy,...

Third aircraft carrier and thousands of troops head to Mideast as Trump weighs new Iran strikes

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military is dispatching roughly 9,000 troops aboard a group of ships to the Middle East, a U.S. official said Thursday....

Federal report says pilots weren’t warned about wind before Amazon cargo plane crashed in Miami

Despite regulations requiring it, an air traffic controller failed to tell the pilots of an Amazon cargo plane about the potential for strong tail winds...

Judge denies defense motion asking Lindsay Clancy be found not guilty due to a lack of evidence

BOSTON (AP) — The judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder case on Thursday refused to declare her not guilty, turning down a defense motion that had argued...

Joe Jonas visits patients at Boston Children’s Hospital

Singer Joe Jonas, one-third of the Jonas Brothers, paid a visit to young patients at Boston Children’s Hospital before the band’s concert at TD Garden...

Trump and Vance hit the campaign trail in deep-red areas where GOP candidates seek a boost

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance both hit the campaign trail on Thursday, but they headed to heavily Republican areas...

Hello, October!

Despite the clouds, we’ve had an overall more summerlike day… at least in comparison to where we’ve been lately! Temperatures were back above average, and...

Rapper Rick Ross charged with battery after domestic violence accusation

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Rapper Rick Ross was arrested in Miami Beach early Thursday and charged with battery related to a domestic violence accusation, authorities said....

Tennessee governor calls Christa Pike’s failed execution ‘deeply disturbing’ and orders a review

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee officials haven’t explained yet what went wrong during the failed execution of Christa Pike, which was called off after she...

Renee Good’s family sues US government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Renee Good’s family sued the U.S. government and several immigration officials Thursday, alleging wrongful death, conspiracy and other violations in the 37-year-old...

Man accused of sexually assaulting multiple women at Cambridge gym expected in court

A man was arrested after he allegedly sexually assaulted multiple women in the locker room at a gym in Cambridge Thursday morning, police said. Cambridge...

Man accused of sexually assaulting multiple women in Cambridge Planet Fitness arrested

A man was arrested after he allegedly sexually assaulted multiple women in the locker room at a gym in Cambridge Thursday morning, police said. Cambridge...