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The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection initially wanted to leave the cubs in their natural habitat, but that idea has changed after animal advocates and community members spoke out.

The two Newtown bear cubs have been found, according to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), after the mother bear was shot on Thursday, leaving them orphaned. The cubs were found in a wooded area in Newtown by town officials and the police department and appear to be in good health, DEEP said. Bobbi, the cubs’ mother, was…

Bobbi the bear was loved by Newton residents and others from across Fairfield County. Bobbi left behind two cubs which residents are trying to get rescued.

A Massachusetts Montessori school apologized and fired a teacher for instructing young children to make and wear Blackface masks as a Black History Month project. The incident, which happened in a classroom with toddlers, took place last Tuesday at IC Kids in Newton. When one mother, Nadirah Pierce, picked up her children and learned what had happened, she complained and…

A black SUV wound up stuck on the grass near the sixth hole at a country club in Newton, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, according to the Newton Police Department.

A former assistant athletic director at Northeastern University claimed he was racially profiled by police in Newton, Massachusetts, during an incident in the city in May. Tim Duncan took to social media to share the story this week to bring more attention to interactions between police and people of color. “Sometimes, African American males are just thought of as threats,…

A Newton-based pharmaceutical company is treating patients with severe cases of the coronavirus with a drug approved to treat multiple myeloma as part of a new study to keep people off ventilators. More than 230 patients enrolled in the second phase of the study, many of them in Boston, and researchers at Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc say they’re making progress....

Massachusetts native and actor/director John Krasinski has started a new chapter of his career, as a news anchor on “Some Good News.” Krasinski on Sunday launched “Some Good News,” a new YouTube series he created focusing entirely on good news. In preparation, the star took to Twitter on Wednesday asking people for stories that made them feel good to...

On the heels of their successful 2018 Project Innovation grant challenge that resulted in 6 local organizations receiving a total of $225,000 in grants, NBC CT and Telemundo CT announced their grant challenge will return in 2019.

Community members in Newton, Massachusetts replaced a handful of American flags to honor veterans after vandals reportedly tore them down.

The man caught on dashcam video jumping on the hood of a school bus in the middle of the Massachusetts Turnpike earlier this week has been issued a summons on numerous charges.

Massachusetts State Police are invesigating why a 42-year-old Dorchester man jumped on to the hood of a school bus on Interstate 90 in Newton.

Grammy award-winning singer Sheryl Crow has written a song for the Sandy Hook Promise group, which formed shortly after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012.

Three Americans won a Nobel Prize on Monday for discovering key genetic “gears” of the body’s 24-hour biological clock, the mechanism best known for causing jet lag when it falls out of sync. Problems with our body clock also been linked to such disorders as sleep problems, depression, heart disease, diabetes and obesity. Researchers are now trying to find ways...

Boston is among the cities hoping to follow the model of Copenhagen, Denmark, which opened the first of its floating harbor baths in the early 2000s. Paris opened public swimming areas in a once-polluted canal this week, and similar efforts are in the planning stages in New York, London, Berlin, Melbourne and elsewhere. In Boston, the Charles River Conservancy still...

Jewish community centers around the country were again targeted with bomb threats Wednesday morning, a week after a spate of similar threats were made against many centers. Centers in at least 17 states were targeted Wednesday with bomb threats. Centers in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Delaware, Connecticut, Alabama, California, Maine, Tennessee, South Carolina, Missouri,...