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An overheight moving truck was “Storrowed” under a bridge on Soldiers Field Road in Boston on Thursday morning, causing lengthy delays. The accident occurred on Soldiers Field Road inbound at North Harvard Street shortly before 10:30 a.m. A Ryder moving truck made contact with the bridge. Photos showed the back of the truck was almost c...

A 17-year-old is dead after a shooting overnight in Taunton, Massachusetts. The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday morning that Taunton police and Massachusetts State Police detectives are actively investigating the homicide, which occurred just after midnight. Taunton police first responded around 12:25 a.m. to 351 ...

A man faced a judge Thursday on child endangerment charges, several weeks after his 7-year-old daughter was shot and killed in Providence, Rhode Island. NBC10 Boston affiliate WJAR reports that 27-year-old Nelson Pires is facing two counts of child endangerment, as well as a charge for driving on a suspended license, as both Providence police and t...

An iconic Saugus restaurant has opened a spinoff location at a southern New Hampshire casino, promising to bring a “one-of-a-kind Asian dining concept and nightlife experience” to the Seabrook venue. The legendary Kowloon restaurant, a storied landmark along Route 1, is collaborating with The Brook to open a new food and drink spot at t...

Matthew Tkachuk estimated that he tells a story about Johnny Gaudreau’s exploits, both the on-ice and off-ice variety, to somebody at least once a week. And he’s not going to stop, either. Tkachuk spoke Wednesday about the death of his longtime friend and former teammate, calling Gaudreau “the most offensively talented player I’ve...

Members of a U.S. Senate committee looking into the bankruptcy of Steward Health Care adopted two resolutions Thursday designed to hold CEO Ralph de la Torre in contempt — one for civil enforcement and another for criminal contempt — for not testifying before the panel. The votes come after de la Torre refused to attend a committee hearing last wee...

The investigation continues into a violent incident where two correction officers were stabbed and three others injured on Wednesday afternoon at the maximum-security Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts. As the investigation continues, the road to the prison remained blocked off Thursday, and a union official said he ha...

The Bruins won’t have Jeremy Swayman on the ice to start camp. Here’s a breakdown of what the goaltending situation looks like as a result.

There are more than a thousand Boston hotel workers on strike as a third wave of employees from four hotels walked off the job Thursday morning in the biggest show of protest so far. The hotel workers — from Omni Parker House, Omni Boston Seaport, Renaissance Boston Seaport, and Westin Boston Seaport — are fighting for a new contract wi...

A 58-year-old hiker had to be rescued by a helicopter after injuring himself on the Beehive Trail at Maine’s Acadia National Park on Wednesday. Acadia National Park said in a press release that park rangers responded to a report of a man experiencing a serious medical event on the Beehive Trail around 8 a.m. Wednesday. Park rangers coordinate...

A New Hampshire woman suffered burns on her leg after hiking off trail in Yellowstone National Park and falling into scalding water in a thermal area near the Old Faithful geyser, park officials said.

Which players could win the Bruins’ second-line right wing spot in training camp? Here’s a list of the top candidates.

A search is continuing in Brockton, Massachusetts, Thursday morning to find a man accused of sexually assaulting a middle school student on her walk home from school this week. Brockton police say the 13-year-old was attacked on West Elm Street on Tuesday as she was on her way home from West Middle School. According to police, a man approached the&...