Spencer

The 31-year-old suffered serious injuries but was expected to survive, police said.

A 31-year-old man was seriously injured in a crash early Christmas morning in Spencer, Massachusetts. Spencer police said first responders working the holiday responded to a serious motor vehicle crash that occurred around 12:55 a.m. Monday at Paxton and Thompson Pond roads. The Spencer Fire Department confirmed they responded for entrapment and that the man was removed from the vehicle….

This Sunday was the first in about one hundred and sixty years that the First Congregational Church of Spencer didn’t have a place of worship.

Today is the first Sunday in about 160 years that the people of Spencer, Massachusetts, don’t have a place of worship. The First Congregational Church of Spencer was destroyed by a fast-moving fire Friday. The blaze reduced a church that had been standing since the Civil War to a pile of rubble all in about 45 minutes. The building was…

It’s a devastating loss for the town, but the surrounding faith community is stepping in to help.

A fire chief says a fire that burned down a 160-year-old Massachusetts church was likely started by a lightning strike. The First Congregational Church in Spencer caught fire Friday afternoon, when a storm was moving through the area. The steeple fell as the building was engulfed in flames. The walls later caved in. Spencer Fire Chief Robert Parsons said Saturday...

Police shared dramatic images of smoke pouring from the building, including the steeple.

Lightning is being blamed as the likely cause for a fire that took down a Spencer church that stood since the Civil War.

A church was destroyed by a fire Friday in Spencer, Massachusetts, and investigators say lightning was likely the cause. A building was on fire at 207 Main Street, which is Massachusetts Route 9, according to the Spencer Police Department. The address is for the First Congregational Church of Spencer, United Church of Christ, a congregation that dates back to 1743,…