Police say an Allston woman who thought she was getting into a ride-sharing service car reported that she was kidnapped near Boston’s busy Faneuil Hall and taken on a half-hour drive before managing to escape near the New Hampshire border. The woman in her 20s said she ordered a Lyft around 12:50 a.m. Sunday after spending the night out...

Boston police have released the name of the person of interest in the case of a missing 23-year-old Boston woman. Louis D. Coleman is suspected of kidnapping 23-year-old Jassy Correia. She was last seen over the weekend following an outing with her boyfriend and friends at Venu Nightclub in the city’s Theater District.

Two people are dead after a single-engine airplane crashed and caught fire at Mansfield Municipal Airport early Saturday afternoon, Massachusetts State Police say. An instructor and a student pilot were killed when the Cessna 172 aircraft crashed around 12:36 p.m. Officials have not yet released the victims’ identities....
The plane had taken off out of Norwood around 11:30 a.m., Mansfield Deputy...

A 2-year-old girl was pronounced dead after being found outside a New Hampshire apartment building Monday morning in below-freezing temperatures. Newport police are investigating whether the girl might have left the Maple Street apartment through a back door overnight and then couldn’t get back in.