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The rain has been elusive for many of us, but the Cape & Islands have been hammered with water. Some spots picked up 1-2 inches in the first-of-season storm. Gusts even topped 40 mph at times. The remainder of eastern Massachusetts has been watching on the sidelines. Will we ever get in the game? Well, the guidance hasn’t been much…...

A week after Enrique Delgado-Garcia was fatally injured at the Massachusetts State Police Academy, there is still an open question of who will investigate. State police say the 25-year-old recruit was hospitalized last Thursday after being injured during a defensive tactics training exercise at the New Braintree facility. He died the following day....

A meeting Thursday in Canton, Massachusetts, became heated as participants discussed how to move forward with an audit of the town’s police department amid ongoing backlash over how police handled the investigation into Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe’s death and the Sandra Birchmore case. Canton voters approved the independent...

Patriots rookie quarterback Drake Maye made his NFL debut in Week 3. Here’s what he thought of his first pro snaps.

Unblocked rushers and poor tackling doomed the Patriots in their 24-3 loss to the Jets. Phil Perry shares what he learned from the lopsided defeat.

Tom E. Curran and Ted Johnson share their candid reactions to the Patriots’ 24-3 loss to the Jets on Thursday night.

A man is in custody nine months after he allegedly killed another man at a night club in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Twenty-nine-year-old Edward Javier-Perez was shot to death at the Energy Lounge on Christmas Eve in 2023. The Essex County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday that 27-year-old Franklin Laras of Lawrence was in custody, but di...

Consumers can make the most out of weekly online deals by doing some research early in the week, but that’s not when the best day is.

As Republicans in Nebraska consider changing state law to give Donald Trump an extra Electoral College vote this fall, their Democratic counterparts in Maine have little recourse to even the score.  

It’s only September, but eggnog and Christmas trees are already appearing in stores, and you know what that means: The holidays are upon us, and we are staring down the deadline to get the best deals on flights in November and December. “We are expecting strong demand for Thanksgiving and Christmas, both domestically and international,” said Lindsa...

Massachusetts State Police have shared details of the department’s internal investigation into a supervisor in the Karen Read case: Lt. John Fanning.

She was accompanied by her family and her dog, Bruce, who she was walking when the lightning strike derailed her life.

TNT and plastic explosives were found buried in a remote part of a Massachusetts state forest by a man with a metal detector on Thursday, police said. It wasn’t immediately clear what the explosives were doing in the ground in Rowley, near the border with Newbury, but they appeared to have been there for years, according to Rowley police.......