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Students at Goodrich Academy in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, are returning to school Thursday after a troubling incident less than 24 hours ago. A 15-year-old student allegedly stabbed a classmate, a situation that has parents and students alike on edge. School officials and police say this was a targeted attack, and therefore there is no threat to th...

Happy Halloween! To your ghoulish delight, there will be plenty of warm treats in the forecast. Highs creep up to the 80-degree mark in many towns and cities snapping records along the way while we maintain an eerie breeze from the southwest. Spooky clouds may dart in and out from time to time, but this a mostly bright finish to…

A Republican official in Cohasset, Massachusetts, says a swastika was painted on his sign supporting former President Donald Trump. Kevin O’Donnell, chair of the Cohasset Republican Town Committee, denounced the use of the hate symbol. He said it must have happened sometime after 9 a.m. Wednesday, in the daylight. “I just thought we wer...

A sense of community connection can be hard to find, but for over a century, many residents of Hudson, Massachusetts, have found it in an unusual place — the local hardware store. But after nearly 150 years, Robinsons Hardware, a community staple, will close its doors on Oct. 31. Customers who consider the store part of their lives have returned&#8...

A man was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy in Phillips, Maine, on Tuesday, authorities said. A Franklin County sheriff’s deputy was called to a bridge on Salem Road for a report of a man with a gun about 6 p.m., Sheriff Scott Nichols said in a news release, News Center Maine reported. The man, identified as 61-year-old Lawrence......

A person has died after a crash Wednesday evening in Foxborough, Massachusetts. State police responded just before 8 p.m. to the rollover crash on Interstate 95 southbound. Authorities say the driver was ejected from the vehicle. That person was brought to Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleborough, where they were pronounced dead. The cause of the c...

Firefighters responded to a fire in a condo complex in Stoughton, Massachusetts, on Thursday afternoon. The fire was reported just before 2:30 p.m. at a condominium complex on Greenbrook Drive. Aerial footage showed numerous fire engines and vehicles surrounding the building, though no smoke or fire was immediately visible. A landing zone was set u...

No charges are being filed in a deadly double shooting that erupted early in the morning the day after July 4, 2023, outside a party at a rented condo near a resort in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, prosecutors said Wednesday. One man was killed in the shooting on Nordic Wilderness Road in Bartlett, New Hampshire, shortly after 1 a.m. on......

Six days remain to campaign in the presidential race, and no stone is being left unturned. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro made multiple stops in New Hampshire Wednesday in support of Kamala Harris and Granite State gubernatorial candidate Joyce Craig. “We feel good about where things are going, but you’ve got to run through the tape her...

Parts of the MBTA’s Red Line will shut down multiple times next month. Red Line service will be suspended early in November between Broadway and North Quincy from Nov. 5 through Nov. 10 and between Broadway and Ashmont on Nov. 9 and Nov. 10. The MBTA announced all service changes for the month on Oct. 17. Alternate service options are…...

A construction worker was seriously hurt by an electric shock at a site in Falmouth, Massachusetts, Wednesday, fire officials said. The shock was delivered when a steel beam touched overhead electrical wires at an under-construction building on Main Street about 2 p.m., according to the Falmouth Fire Rescue Department. The worker was conscious but ...

A man has died after a crash Wednesday evening on Interstate 95 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, state police said. The driver of a southbound vehicle was killed after crossing the median and hitting another vehicle on the northbound side of the highway, according to investigators. The other vehicle’s driver suffered serious but non-life-threate...

Patriots QB Drake Maye is in the concussion protocol this week. What is that process like? Brian Hoyer shares his own experience.