Weymouth

A woman was killed by an SUV near a shopping plaza in Weymouth, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, officials said. The 78-year-old was rushed to South Shore Hospital from the area of Fox Plaza on Washington Street after being hit about 1:10 p.m., the Weymouth District Attorney’s Office said. She was pronounced dead about 1:40 p.m. Her name wasn’t immediately being...

Massachusetts State Police and the FBI were on scene in Weymouth, Massachusetts, on Wednesday. FBI Boston confirmed the agencies were “conducting court authorized activity” at a scene on Park Avenue west. No other details were immediately released. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Weeks after a crash between a motorboat and a sailboat, a 70-year-old woman has died.

The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office says it is investigating a boat crash last month in Hingham Bay that left one person dead and another in critical condition. The crash occurred on Aug. 16 around 12:43 p.m. off the coast of Grape Island in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Two people who were on a 21-foot Pisces sailboat that was involved in a collision…

A motorboat and a sailboat collided near Grape Island, seriously injuring two people.

A crash between a motor boat and a sailboat sent two people to hospitals.

Two people were taken to the hospital Friday after a boat crash off the coast of Grape Island in Weymouth, Massachusetts, officials said. The crash happened on Hingham Bay. Fire officials said one person was rushed to a hospital in Boston and another was taken to a hospital on the South Shore, both suffering serious injuries. Both of those people…

Kelly Shaw, 44, was indicted this month in the murder of Christine Mello, who was found dead in her Weymouth home in April

Lopes was sentenced for killing Weymouth Police Sgt. Michael Chesna and Vera Adams in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 2018.

Cindy Chesna gave three powerful victim impact statements — her son’s, her daughter and her own — at the sentencing of Emanuel Lopes, who killed her husband, Weymouth Police Sgt. Michael Chesna.

Emanuel Lopes was sentenced Wednesday to consecutive life sentences for murdering a police sergeant and an elderly woman in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 2018. The 26-year-old will not be eligible to go before a parole board until he’s 60, Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone said after delivering the sentence, which she made after considering what she described as “very powerful”…

The former Weymouth, Massachusetts, police officer who was charged with punching a man while he was in custody was sentenced Tuesday. Justin Chappell, 43, had pleaded guilty to one federal count of deprivation of rights back in April. U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs sentenced him Tuesday to two years’ supervised release, with the first six months to be…

A Massachusetts man who received the world’s first genetically-edited pig kidney transplant has died, his family announced Saturday.

The former Weymouth, Massachusetts, police officer who was charged with punching a man while he was in custody pleaded guilty to a federal charge on Tuesday, prosecutors announced. Justin Chappell resigned from the Weymouth Police Department after being notified he was facing termination for the incident, which occurred on July 2, 2022. Chappell was accused of punching the man about…

Two people were charged after an incident at a carnival held at Weymouth High School that prompted the event to be canceled, officials said.

Witnesses who were here last night telling our crews that a massive fight broke out, prompting a stampede of people running away in fear.

There was a heavy police presence at a carnival at Weymouth High School Friday night.

Two people were charged after an incident at a carnival held at Weymouth High School that prompted the event to be canceled, officials said. Witnesses who were at the event last night said that a massive fight broke out, prompting a stampede of people running away in fear. Weymouth police said of the two people being charged that one, a…

A truck rolled over and spilled gravel onto the highway in Weymouth, Massachusetts, the Department of Transportation said Thursday. The crash occurred at about 10 a.m. on Route 3 north and shut down the right lane, officials said. Drivers should expect delays. It wasn’t immediately known if anyone was injured or what caused the crash. This story will be updated…

Two people who lived with a Weymouth, Massachusetts, woman who was found dead in her home were arrested. One of them will face a judge Friday, but not for murder charges.