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We got a new look at the Karen Read case on Friday night. Dateline aired a two-hour Karen Read special on the case, with an exclusive interview and much more. Read, who’s been charged with second-degree murder in the death of John O’Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend, and denies the accusations, spoke to the legendary NBC newsma...

The Philippine police said Friday it has launched a search after gunmen reportedly abducted an American national, who was shot in the leg as he tried to resist before being spirited away from a southern Philippine coastal town by speedboat.

The Patriots listed seven players on their final Week 7 injury report, but rookie quarterback Drake Maye isn’t one of them.

A man who was charged with attacking a corrections officer when he was housed as an inmate at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute in Shirley in 2022 pled guilty Friday, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office.

What should we make of the Bruins’ start to the 2024-25 NHL season? Here are three observations from the first five games.

For the third time this year, Takeda Pharmaceuticals Inc. has disclosed plans to lay off workers at its Cambridge and Lexington sites. 

A teenage boy has been arrested in an attack on a person with a disability near a Danvers, Massachusetts, middle school, police said Friday. The 15-year-old, whose name wasn’t shared, was arrested about 1:30 p.m. Friday over the attack six days earlier in the area of Holten Richmond Middle School and Plains Park, Danvers police said. He faces...

ZOM Living is pursuing a plan to build 530 apartments on what is now an industrial site in Westford, the largest project under the MBTA Communities zoning law to date statewide.

Rhamondre Stevenson sounds optimistic about returning to the Patriots lineup for Sunday’s game vs. the Jaguars in London.

“The bridge renaming will honor his dedication to civil rights and the fostering of Boston’s youth and young athletes,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s office says.

In a rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, there’s a term you’ve probably never heard of but soon will: “personhood credentials.” They aim to verify you as a real human online, not a bot, as a way to combat issues like fraud and misinformation. But it raises other questions about oversight. AI is advancing a...

The death of a worker crushed by part of a Hanson, Mass., building’s foundation in February was “entirely preventable,” according to OSHA, which has cited the man’s employer.

A mother charged with abandoning her newborn in subfreezing temperatures after giving birth in the woods of New Hampshire was given a suspended sentence Thursday, with the condition that she attend regular mental health counseling.