Massachusetts

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker held a press conference Friday with a special guest — former New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski. The reason for the press conference was to announce a $1.2 million donation from Gronkowski and the Gronk Nation Youth Foundation to fund a full renovation of the Charlesbank Playground, located in the state Department of Conservation and…

Love letters that John F. Kennedy wrote to a Swedish paramour a few years after he married Jacqueline Bouvier are going up for auction. “You are wonderful and I miss you,” Kennedy scribbled at the end of a February 1956 letter to aristocrat Gunilla von Post.

Since being sworn into office in January, it has been a whirlwind for Vanna Howard, who is the Bay State’s first female Cambodian-American State Representative. It’s a role she could not have imagined as a young child in Cambodia when she was fleeing the Khmer Rouge.

The owner of a Massachusetts pizza parlor lied about the number of employees he had to fraudulently obtain more than $660,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds, then used some of the money to buy and stock an alpaca farm in Vermont, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Dana McIntyre, 57, of Grafton, Vermont, was arrested Tuesday and charged with wire fraud and…

Don’t be alarmed by a low-flying helicopter over Cape Cod in the next month or so. Starting Monday, a helicopter will drop oral rabies vaccine baits intended for raccoons and other wildlife over portions of Barnstable and Plymouth counties, the Cape Cod Times reports. The distribution of the vaccine baits to the north and west of the Cape Cod...

A Massachusetts boy spent six hours locked on a school bus Thursday after he fell asleep and no one noticed, according to the boy’s aunt. Jessica Reyes says she thought it was a joke when her 13-year-old nephew Jamie, who has autism, told her what happened. “He said he never made it to school. He fell asleep on the...

Neighborhoods in several different southern New Hampshire towns were rocked by a mysterious explosion Tuesday night.

Now, fans of the macabre can stay at the murder scene, thanks to the property’s new owners, U.S. Ghost Adventures — which does local walking tours with a paranormal spin in 15 cities.

Starting Monday, anyone over the age of sixteen is eligible to make an appointment to get the coronavirus vaccine in Massachusetts. The latest demographic to qualify for the vaccine is composed of about 1.7 million Massachusetts residents. The Bay State is one of the last states to make shots available to the general adult population. The federal government ordered states…

Three people were killed Saturday when a vehicle traveling the wrong way on Interstate 84 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, slammed into another vehicle, state police said. Police identified the driver Sunday as Deyja Jackson, 40, of Worcester, Massachusetts. The two victims in the second car were identified as Irene Karam, 83, of Manchester, New Hampshire, and Patricia Knauer, 62, of Deland,…

The upcoming trial of a former Massachusetts mayor first elected at the age of 23 will showcase the dramatic rise and fall of the wunderkind accused of stealing from his investors and extorting marijuana companies.

Mayor Kim Janey is baffled that a former Boston police officer and union chief who is charged with molesting multiple children reportedly first faced child abuse allegations back in the mid-1990s.

A person’s body was found Wednesday in a river in Chicopee, Massachusetts, by a search-and-rescue team looking for a boy missing for over two months, police said. The dive team found the body at 11:15 a.m. between the North End Bridge, over the Connecticut River, and Memorial Bridge, over the Chicopee River, according to Chicopee police. Detectives from local...

The death of rapper and actor DMX this week reverberated in New England, where the New Yorker spent time in recent years and left many fond memories. DMX died at age 50 on Friday, his family confirmed, after a heart attack had left him hospitalized for a week. His songs “Ruff Ryders Anthem” and “X Gon’ Give It to Ya”…

For Melissa Surgecoff and her fiancé Donnie Campbell, March 8 started out just like any other day, until Surgecoff suddenly started feeling intense cramping and pain.

Hundreds of people in eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut took to social media on Friday to report feeling shaking or hearing a “boom” type noise, but the U.S. Geological Survey said what they felt was definitely not a temblor. “Felt it on Martha’s Vineyard! A rumbling, then a jolt. A second rumbling a few mins later,” Whitney Dailey...

The renowned Shakespeare & Company theater group in Massachusetts plans to resume live, in-person performances this summer with a production of “King Lear” starring Christopher Lloyd

An armed robbery suspect who barricaded himself inside a Rockland, Massachusetts, police cruiser Friday morning was fatally shot at the end of a standoff after officials said he appeared to be exiting the vehicle with a police rifle. Over about three hours, the man allegedly robbed a 7-Eleven, evaded an officer who’d cornered him on foot, stole an officer’s...

An armed robbery suspect who barricaded himself inside a Rockland, Massachusetts, police cruiser Friday morning was fatally shot at the end of a standoff, officials said. He appeared to be exiting the vehicle with a police rifle. Over about three hours, the man robbed a 7-Eleven, evaded an officer who’d cornered him on foot, stole an officer’s police cruiser,...

A Massachusetts woman noticed something strange about the “For Sale” sign outside a home in her neighborhood