Braintree

A man was critically injured Saturday afternoon in a shooting at a shopping mall in Braintree, Massachusetts, and the suspect is still on the loose, police said. State and local police responded to a call of shots fired with a person down at South Shore Plaza around 3 p.m., Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey said during a second press…

A student assaulted a Braintree Public Schools employee on Thursday, officials said, calling it a part of the purported “slap a teacher” TikTok challenge that’s sounding alarm bells among educators nationwide. The officials didn’t say what school the incident took place at or give any details about what allegedly happened, and it wasn’t immediately clear if the incident was...

John Stout and Carly Zdanek are hoping to turn a free USB drive into the key to paying off $130,000 in combined student loan debt.

Gunfire erupted out of a fight between two groups of people at the South Shore Plaza in Braintree, Massachusetts, Friday afternoon, sending a 15-year-old girl to the hospital and causing a manhunt in the area that ended with two people in custody, police said. Braintree police said two men, ages 20 and 21, fled the mall on foot but were…

A Groton man has been charged with manslaughter after a head-on crash in Stonington killed two people last year.

The dozens of community and nonprofit theaters across the U.S. forced to abandon productions of “To Kill a Mockingbird” under legal threat were offered an olive branch in the form of Aaron Sorkin’s script for the Broadway version. Scott Rudin, producer of the New York adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel, had cited an agreement with Lee’s estate in demanding that...

Dozens of community and nonprofit theaters across the U.S. have been forced to abandon productions of “To Kill a Mockingbird” under legal threat by Broadway and Hollywood producer Scott Rudin. The combative move has prompted calls for a boycott of Rudin’s work. Rudin is arguing that author Harper Lee signed over to him exclusive worldwide rights to the title of...

Connecticut State Police have identified the two people who were killed in a crash on Interstate 95 in Stonington early Sunday morning.

Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child’s-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” became standard reading for millions of young people, has died. She was 89.