17+ hour, 45+ min ago   (285+ words) Crews rushed to rescue a severely entangled minke whale off the waters east of Cape Cod on Tuesday. The 18-foot whale was first seen entangled last Sunday in Cape Cod Bay by recreational fishermen. The Marine Animal Entanglement Response Program…...

16+ hour, 21+ min ago   (375+ words) Sandwich police officer Matthew Cotter was placed on leave following an alleged drunk-driving crash while he was off duty Friday night. Cotter was arrested and charged with operating under the influence of liquor, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, marked…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (191+ words) Officials are asking for the public's help after a woman allegedly showed a large kitchen knife to a group of juveniles during an alarming incident inside a Brookline, Massachusetts, restaurant last week. The incident occurred at the Taco Bell on…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (303+ words) Anna Sweeney is raising her daughters in her mother’s memory, keeping Madeline Amy Sweeney’s 9/11 heroism alive Anna Sweeney was just 5 years old when her mother boarded a flight to Los Angeles and forever became one of the heroes of the…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (88+ words) WCVB A woman was taken to the hospital with minor injuries after a tree fell on several parked cars in Boston, police said. Officers arrived at Washington Street and Chestnut Hill Avenue just before 4 p.m. for a reported car crash. When…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (273+ words) Volunteers gathered in Boston's Public Garden on Thursday to plant nearly 3,000 flags — each one a tribute to the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001. The Scouts, family members, and others took part in a silent tribute to the victims of the terror…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (102+ words) A cargo terminal at Logan Airport was evacuated on Thursday after a report of a bomb threat. A Massachusetts State Police spokesperson said the threat was phoned in to a cargo terminal on Harborside Drive in East Boston around 3:15 p.m. Out…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (351+ words) A former teacher at an elite girls' boarding school appeared in a Massachusetts court to be formally charged with sexually assaulting his student decades ago. Matthew Johnson, 70, was arraigned Thursday in Berkshire Superior Court on three criminal charges: one count…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (168+ words) An investigation is underway after the suspect in a homicide was killed in an officer-involved shooting in Erving, Massachusetts, the Worcester County District Attorney's Office announced. Police in Suffolk County, New York, which comprises a large part of Long Island,…...