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An attorney for one of Karen Read‘s most visible supporters, facing charges of witness intimidation in the case, is leveling new allegations against prosecutors. The defense team for Aidan Kearney, the blogger better known as “Turtleboy,” sent a letter to prosecutors Thursday claiming that Norfolk County District Attorney Michael ...

An explosion at a work site Friday in Franklin, Massachusetts, sent a person to the hospital. Police said they responded to the incident on Pond Street to find that a barrel had exploded at a job site. One person was brought to the hospital with injuries, according to Franklin police. Authorities did not comment on the nature or severity of…...

In towns and cities across Massachusetts, election workers are waiting with anticipation. Early voting begins Saturday and serves as the first in-person chance for Bay Staters to make their voices heard. Voting booths, ballots and volunteers all in position ready for the expected voting rush. “In the beginning and the end, it’s kind of,...

The hotel workers strike at two Boston hotels has been suspended as a tentative agreement was reached, the union announced Friday night. Workers at Omni Parker House and the Omni Boston Seaport are no longer picketing, the union 685 UNITE HERE Local 26 announced, with a vote to ratify the contract set for Sunday. The union didn’t release deta...

The major interest in the Karen Read murder case comes as no surprise to experts who say it shows the true power of the true crime genre.

Police announced Friday evening that Det. Lt. Brian Tully, who has been under internal investigation, has been transition to a different department for the time being.

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...