Massachusetts

In some Massachusetts communities, you could see bus drivers wearing fatigues on Thursday. That’s because members of the National Guard are already practicing bus routes in several cities and towns across the state. The guard started learning routes and bus stops in Chelsea, Lowell and Lynn on Thursday. Guard members went through training on Wednesday. They underwent medical exams,...

“Walk This Way” if you want to live like a rock star. The Patriot Ledger reports that Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry is selling his home in Duxbury south of Boston for $4.5 million.

A 42-year-old married Bergen County man has been accused of sexually assaulting the same minor in two different states, authorities announced Tuesday. Cheldon Clare, of Hasbrouck Heights, was arrested following an investigation conducted by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, the Hasbrouck Heights Police Department, and the Barnstable, Massachusetts Police Department, the Bergen County prosecutor said. According to authorities, on...

The first trial in the college admissions bribery scandal opened Monday with defense attorneys seeking to portray the two parents accused of buying their kids’ way into school as victims of a con man who believed their payments were legitimate donations. Defense attorneys said former casino executive Gamal Abdelaziz and former Staples and Gap Inc. executive John Wilson never discussed…

The remains of a Marine sergeant from Massachusetts who was killed in Afghanistan are returning to Lawrence on Saturday.

Over the next 20 years, the goal is to get the materials in every school. He said it is the best way to make sure those too young to remember never forget.

Tucked in a grove of ginkgo trees, a glass cube at Logan International Airport pays tribute to those lost aboard the two jetliners that took off from Boston and were hijacked by terrorists who flew them into the World Trade Center towers. But it’s mostly silent homage.

The first trial in the “Operation Varsity Blues” college admissions bribery scandal begins this week, with the potential to shed light on investigators’ tactics and brighten the spotlight on a secretive school selection process many have long complained is rigged to favor the rich.

The Sportsmen’s Tennis & Enrichment Center in Dorchester, Mass., fought to keep the game going for both their tennis and education programs once the pandemic hit. But as they found ways to keep kids on the courts and in their classrooms, the delta variant began to hit a little too close to home.

While the panel cannot fire Eichhammer, it said it found the photo highly offensive and the demands to fire the officer are valid.

Former Congressman Joe Kennedy II says a “grievous error” has been made after the California parole board recommended Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin be released from prison.

The fifth and final sets of winners of the Massachusetts VaxMillions Giveaway will be announced on Thursday. All of them were lucky to win, but it turns out one is extremely lucky. One of the first eight winners of the lottery wasn’t actually the first to be drawn for the prize they won, a Baker administration official confirmed to...

Former Bruins forward and Boston College standout Jimmy Hayes has died at age 31.

People across the Northeast have been watching the forecast for days, looking to get a sense of where the storm that is now Tropical Storm Henri would make landfall. Its track has shifted — earlier this week, the storm was taking aim at Cape Cod and Boston, and both places were preparing for first direct hit by a hurricane in…

A woman convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem Witch Trials may finally be exonerated in Massachusetts

Unvaccinated people are eager to travel again. But increasingly, the rules make that harder.

The party was supposed to be held outdoors, and all invitees were reportedly being required to present negative COVID tests before being allowed in.

A woman from the Boston area died while hiking in Arizona Friday afternoon.

Findings from the investigation into the Provincetown COVID-19 outbreak helped formulate the CDC’s decision to recommend that all Americans, even if they are vaccinated, wear masks indoors, according to an internal report by the agency. An internal CDC document obtained by NBC News cites preliminary data suggesting that the delta variant is as contagious as the chickenpox, and even...

Two of the states hit hardest last week, Mississippi and Louisiana and, have some of the nation’s worst vaccination rates and climbing Covid hospitalizations.