Massachusetts

There was heartbreak and horror in Duxbury and elsewhere in Massachusetts Wednesday as people struggled to process the deaths of two local children, allegedly at the hands of their mother. Members of the Clancy family were in disbelief less than 24 hours after Lindsay Clancy allegedly strangled her two older children; her youngest child also remained in a hospital for…

Authorities say two young children were killed in an incident Tuesday at a home in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz said Tuesday night that a 5-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy had died after being taken to a hospital. An 8-month-old boy was also airlifted to a Boston hospital and is being treated. Police responded to a…

Murder defendants have been charged and convicted without dead bodies — including by the district attorney’s office prosecuting Brian Walshe.

The child had dropped the doll while she was waiting for the school bus.

Milanka Ljubicic’s interview with NBC News comes a day after prosecutors alleged Brian Walshe dismembered and discarded her daughter’s body.

Blame it on the pandemic and “supply chain problems,” says the school district’s assistant superintendent of finance.

For several hours Tuesday morning, anyone who was able to book summer ferry tickets to Nantucket online was lucky. The Steamship Authority opened their online summer booking to the island on Tuesday morning, but not without major system glitches that left many experiencing hours-long wait times only to then get booted from their reservation. Reservations were working again after several…

A 20-year-old woman who was originally from Newburyport, Massachusetts, died while on vacation in Cancún, Mexico.

It’s well-known that movie star Ben Affleck loves his Dunkin’ — he’s often spotted drinking one — and now he’s apparently serving them, too.

Authorities wrapped up their search efforts Saturday night that were concentrated near the home of a missing mom from Cohasset, Massachusetts, but the investigation into Ana Walshe’s disappearance continues.

An ugly incident that happened with just seconds left in a hockey game between a team out of South Windsor, Connecticut, and a team from Massachusetts called the St. Nicks. A Connecticut coach allegedly yanked a Massachusetts player to the ice. Tama Parsons, head coach of the St. Nicks, posted video of the incident to Facebook. “The coach grabbed him…

As the family of collapsed Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin asks for prayers, people in Massachusetts — including the father of a high school football player who died in a game in 2010 — are sending their condolences.

A Massachusetts doctor who allegedly punched a police officer during the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was arrested Tuesday, federal prosecutors said. Dr. Jacquelyn Starer, 68, appeared in federal court in Boston Tuesday on charges including felony civil disorder and assaulting, resisting or impeding officers, according to the Department of Justice. The FBI was tipped off on…

A car slammed into the side of a block of stores on Corinth Street in Roslindale just before 9 a.m. on Sunday morning, exposing Beautiful By Sarah, a skin care and makeup studio, and the adjacent Leise Jones Photography studio to the elements. There’s major structural damage to the building, which is home to several small businesses in a...

Bristol County prosecutors received an international arrest warrant, Massachusetts State Police said, and Mario Garcia, now 50, was taken into custody at the shrimp farm after trying to get away through the water.

A Massachusetts man arrested last year in the FBI’s U.S. Capitol riot investigation has pleaded guilty to assaulting members of law enforcement, the Department of Justice said Monday.

A 35-year-old man allegedly driving an SUV full of people shortly after midnight pointed an airsoft gun at a pedestrian and then fled police at a traffic stop before his vehicle struck another head-on, killing him and one of his six passengers in Worcester, Massachusetts, police said.

The man suspected of killing an elderly couple in their Marshfield, Massachusetts, home is in custody in Florida, ending a dayslong manhunt.

Massachusetts State Police say a mother and her 6-month-old baby have been found after an Amber Alert was issued Thursday when they were reportedly kidnapped from their home in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, by the mother’s ex-boyfriend, who was armed with a knife.

A police manhunt is on for a 27-year-old man wanted for allegedly killing an elderly couple in their Marshfield, Massachusetts, home, authorities said Wednesday. Police issued a be-on-the-lookout alert for Christopher Keeley, who is considered armed and dangerous. An arrest warrant charging him with homicide was issued out of Plymouth District Court Wednesday afternoon, officials said. Carl and Vicki Mattson,…