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Spencer’s fire chief said no injuries were reported after a fire broke out at an East Ave. home and quickly spread to another, destroying both and damaging a third.

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Two homes were destroyed and a third was damaged when a massive fire broke out Sunday in Spencer, Massachusetts, just days before Christmas, according to the fire department, which adds that responding firefighters were met with an unusual scene on this bitterly cold December night. Spencer Fire Chief Robert Parsons tells NBC10 Boston that the blaze started in a home…

Two people were rescued and several others were also injured, including a firefighter, after a fire broke out at a home in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Sunday morning. Fitchburg’s fire chief tells NBC10 Boston that the department was notified around 9:30 a.m. about a reported building fire at a three-family home on Ashburnham Street, with smoke showing from a mile away....

The Brockton Fire Department says Firefighter Jeffrey Albanese suffered a cardiac arrest on Dec. 9 while responding to call and succumbed to his injures on Dec. 21.

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There was no immediate word on the condition of those who were injured in the fire on Ashburnham Street, which is under investigation.

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With more than 200 car crashes on the roads Friday and over 400 flight cancellations or delays Saturday, this winter weather is really throwing a wrench into people’s holiday plans.

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Roadways were slick Friday as a winter storm brought more snow than originally expected, leading to 200 crashes across the state, more than half of which were considered serious. Massachusetts State Police say of the 200 crashes they responded to Friday, 106 of them were serious, meaning they resulted in more than $1,000 in damage or injury. Many were out…

There have been 36 delays and 79 cancellations at Logan Airport on Saturday.

Two elementary schools in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood are merging, but parents and teachers are frustrated by plans to move students around during the school year. The Philbrick School and the Sumner School will join to become a single school serving pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, with a new setting in the former Washington Irving School on Cummins Highway. Fifth- and...

Students are being relocated from a school under renovation to a community center during the school year.

The snow piled up in New England Friday, making traveling treacherous.

A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty to giving his dog fentanyl before stabbing the animal to death earlier this year. Jonathan Paluzzi, 45, of Kingston, received a sentence of five to seven years in state prison after entering a guilty plea to two counts each of animal cruelty and witness intimidation, the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office said Friday. Paluzzi was…

A man has pleaded guilty to 10 racially-targeted burglaries in four Massachusetts communities in 2021. The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office said Friday that 32-year-old New York resident Juan Castano had pleaded guilty to 21 indictments in connection with burglaries at homes of Asian and South Asian families in Newton, Wellesley, Andover and Quincy. A codefendant, Wendy Reyes, is due…

The snow that fell in the Boston area Friday evening brought several inches to a wide swath of the area — and half a foot to parts of the city itself.

A couple from Bridgewater, Massachusetts, have again taken on the roles of Santa’s little helpers this Christmas, handing out hundreds of presents to economically disadvantaged children. Their holiday deeds began when Stephanie and Mark Sabourin bought a decorative holiday mailbox from Lowes last year, which people began filling with letters to Santa. “What we didn’t expect was that people...

The roads have been a mess Friday amid snowfall Friday, and more is expected overnight.

A Bridgewater couple has taken on the roles of Santa’s little helpers, handing out hundreds of gifts to kids whose parents may be struggling financially.

A woman is dead after a fire broke out Thursday in a wooded area in Somerville, Massachusetts, according to officials, who say this appears accidental in the early stages of their investigation. According to the State Fire Marshal’s office, the Somerville Fire Department responded just after 4 p.m. to the woods near Alewife Brook Parkway and Broadway and found...

A man was injured in a shooting at a Taco Bell in New Bedford, Massachusetts, early Thursday morning and another man has been taken into custody. Officers responded to the fast food restaurant on Coggeshall Street just before 1 a.m. for a report of shots fired. The victim was found in the lobby and taken to a local hospital with...