Waltham

A family is unable to return home after a house fire in Waltham, Massachusetts, on Saturday. The fire chief said firefighters arrived around 3:15 p.m. and found heavy fire inside the Milner Street home. Crews were able to contain the flames, stopping them from spreading to neighboring homes in the tight neighborhood. Fire officials are now reminding residents to be…

Inside Boston IVF’s “Cryo Bio and Storage” room in Waltham, Massachusetts, are thousands of dreams — in the form of eggs, embryos and sperm — kept alive at a temperature of 196 degrees below zero. Those dreams belong to families hoping for a chance at parenthood down the road. Katy Daly, 32, who works at a pharmaceutical company in Boston,…

More women are freezing their eggs for a chance at parenthood down the road.

There will be a police officer assigned “to each floor and to every corner of the building” at McDevitt Middle School in Waltham on Monday, the superintendent said.

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The Waltham superintendent sent a note to parents Sunday explaining that administrators had been made aware of multiple threats made via Snapchat regarding a potential shooting at McDevitt Middle School.

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There was an increased police presence Monday at a middle school in Waltham, Massachusetts, following online threats of a potential school shooting. Waltham Public Schools Superintendent Marisa Mendonsa confirmed Sunday that administrators were made aware of multiple threats that were made via Snapchat regarding a potential shooting at McDevitt Middle School. Police in Waltham said later Monday they had identified…

A high school student was arrested after authorities found a BB gun in a vehicle at the high school parking garage in Waltham, Massachusetts, officials said Thursday. School officials said the investigation began when they received a report last week that a firearm may have been spotted inside a vehicle on school grounds last week, according to a letter sent…

A second person has been arrested in the shooting of a woman found dead in an apartment complex parking lot in Waltham, Massachusetts, last month. Kaire Holman, a 31-year-old from Quincy, was due in Waltham District Court Tuesday afternoon to face a murder charge in the fatal shooting of Zharia Wilcox-Ellis, 24, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office. On…

Days after a woman was found fatally shot in the parking lot of a Waltham, Massachusetts, apartment complex, her ex-girlfriend has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting her, authorities said. No arrests directly connected to the shooting of the woman, identified Monday as 24-year-old Zharia Wilcox-Ellis, on Friday night have yet been announced, but Waltham police and the Middlesex District…

The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office confirms Waltham police responded around 11:30 p.m. to a parking lot adjacent to an apartment building on Second Avenue and found a female victim suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. 

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A woman was found dead with a gunshot wound in Waltham on Saturday.

A crash temporarily shut down an on-ramp to Route 128 in Waltham, Massachusetts, Wednesday night. The crash happened near Trapelo Road just after midnight. Video of the scene shows a tow truck pulling the car out of a nearby marsh. It’s unclear what caused the crash or if anyone was injured. NBC10 Boston reached out to police for more information.

A woman was fed fake iron pills containing abortion medication over several weeks in a successful bid by her ex to end her pregnancy, according to police documents filed in a Massachusetts court. Robert Kawada also allegedly gave the woman homemade cookies containing raspberry leaf, which is thought in homeopathic medicine to induce labor. The 43-year-old from Brookline appeared in…

An inmate who escaped from custody during a traffic jam in Waltham, Massachusetts, has pleaded guilty in the February incident. Victor Rodriguez De Moura-Pereira, 20, was being transported in a Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department van when he escaped on Interstate 95 on Feb. 26. Pothole repair on the highway had traffic backed up for miles at the time. Rodrigues entered…

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A car crash left a driver dead and their passenger hurt late Sunday in central Waltham, Massachusetts, police said. The rollover crash took place outside a city building on High Street, past Moody Street, about 11:43 p.m., police said Monday. Both occupants of the car were removed from the vehicle and rushed to the Lahey Clinic, where the driver was…

The New Hampshire man accused of killing a Waltham, Massachusetts, police officer and a National Grid worker back in December will be arraigned on new charges Wednesday. A grand jury indicted Peter Simon, 54, last month of more than 20 charges, including two counts of second-degree murder and motor vehicle homicide. Simon is accused of driving a stolen truck on…

A truck driver who fatally struck a Massachusetts police officer and a utility employee in Waltham, pulled a knife on another officer, stole his cruiser and crashed has been indicted on two counts of second degree murder, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office said. Peter Simon, 54, of Woodsville, New Hampshire, was indicted by a Middlesex County Grand Jury on over…

A prisoner who escaped the custody of sheriff’s deputies while being transported in a van along Interstate 95 in Waltham, Massachusetts, last month appeared in court Monday. Victor De Moura-Pereira, 20, was arraigned on a misdemeanor charge of escaping from federal custody. He is currently in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and will remain there, authorities said. If…

A couple whose children were removed from their home in the middle of the night has cleared a legal hurdle in their federal lawsuit against a handful of Massachusetts Department of Children and Families employees and Waltham police officers for violating their civil rights. Josh Sabey and Sarah Perkins first shared their story with the NBC10 Boston Investigators in September…