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Some caution that putting South Carolina to the back of the line-up could alienate Black voters.

It’s sounds crazy, but the New England Patriots are kind of in the mix for an AFC playoff spot entering Week 11.

A man and a woman were arrested in a deadly stabbing two weeks ago in Chelsea, Massachusetts, prosecutors said Friday.

A car fleeing police across Massachusetts’ North Shore, at times reaching 100 mph, crashed on Route 128 in Gloucester, leaving its driver and two others hurt, police said.

Don’t expect Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla to be best friends with rival NBA coaches during the season. He explained why on Friday.

A teenager was arrested nearly a week after a shooting on a T platform in Boston, MBTA Transit Police said Friday.

Police say they are investigating a suspected double homicide that occurred on Friday morning in Montpelier, Vermont. Vermont State Police said the incident was reported around 11:30 a.m. at a home on Gallison Hill Road. The first officers to arrive at the scene found two people dead and detained one man. Everyone involved in the incident is believ...

A master sergeant with the Massachusetts National Guard has been charged with possession and distribution of child sex abuse images, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday. Nicholas Wells, 43, was arrested Thursday, and following an initial appearance in federal court in Boston, agreed to voluntary detention pending trial, prosecutors sa...

Will Kendrick Bourne have a role in the offense in Patriots-Rams on Sunday? Check out what head coach Jerod Mayo said Friday.

Does Drake Maye have a higher ceiling than his fellow rookies? How can the Patriots help him reach it? Phil Perry tackles those questions and more in a new Mailbag.

A man previously charged with feeding his ex fake iron pills containing abortion medication over several weeks in a successful attempt to end her pregnancy has now been indicted. Robert Kawada, 43, of Brookline, was indicted this week on charges of poisoning, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on a pregnant person and assault and battery o...

The prosecution in Karen Read’s murder case is now seeking phone records from her mother, part of their planned questioning of her father in January’s retrial of some of Massachusetts’ most controversial criminal charges in years.

Police are investigating after a woman was found Friday suffering from stab wounds in Milton, Massachusetts, prompting a school lockdown in neighboring Quincy. Authorities could not say where the stabbing took place, explaining that the victim was found in the Denmark Avenue area. Neighbors said police and EMS crews removed her from an SUV before t...