CRIME & SAFETY

Authorities have identified the man killed from a ‘knife wound’ in the parking lot of Kowloon Restaurant in Saugus.

Police in the nation’s capital are investigating the death of a 42-year-old Quincy man.

Rickland Powell, 59, initially fled from police before his eventual arrest in the Middlesex Fells, authorities said. A 59-year-old Belmont man was arrested and is facing a slew of charges after authorities say he sexually assaulted and photographed a girl in his home o\n multiple occasions. Rickland Powell has been...

Cooper allegedly agreed to meet what he thought was a child in the South Acton Commuter Lot.

STONEHAM, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Mass State Police Fugitive Unit along with the K9 Unit team captured an accused child rapist in Stoneham on Friday evening. According to Mass State Police, 59-year-old Rickland Powell of Belmont was detained before dawn on Friday. Officials developed information that Powell might be in the...

This week in Wakefield, Massachusetts, there were three notable incidents. A woman was arrested for DUI after a rollover accident on Route 16, a van crashed into a home on Kathleen Drive, and two individuals were rescued from an icy pond thanks to the quick action of a retired firefighter.

A Massachusetts woman who heard her father's deathbed confession two years ago but dismissed it as a fish tale said she was shocked to find he was telling the truth about his role in a 1969 Ohio bank heist.

• A DNA sample taken from the estranged wife of alleged serial killer Rex Heuermann matches genetic material found on the remains of three Long Island victims. • The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office has not confirmed the report, but if verified, it would be significant in the case.

WILMINGTON, MA — Below are highlights from the Wilmington Police Log from Wednesday, November 22, 2023:. Police was approached by a resident at the Wilmington Plaza concerned about a possible homeless man in the vicinity of the The Learning Experience daycare facility. Police advised the man, who stated he will be heading back to Tewksbury. (9:38am)

Probation has been granted to a bus driver who claims he passed out on the highway after inadvertently ingesting high-THC candies. Because he is illiterate in English, Jinhuan Chen,59, claimed before a state judge in Bridgeport, Connecticut, that he was unaware the candies were tainted with the drug. Mr. Chen...

BOSTON, MA – On Friday, an assault incident unfolded on Washington Street and Talbot Avenue, leading to the arrest of two individuals. Skyla Malave, 18, and Priscilla Malave, 40, both…

Four juveniles were arrested on Saturday in North Andover in connection to over 30 car break-ins.

The call went out: pedestrian down: Just after 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 28, a car making a left turn onto Water Street from Mass. Ave. in the Arlington Center neighborhood struck and injured a female pedestrian in the crosswalk. The driver, a 72-year-old Arlington resident, stated to police that he...

Four people were charged in the attack this week, NBC Boston reported Thursday, Nov. 30. They are:. Rosaria Sophia McCauly, 32, of North Reading faces two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and a count of disorderly conduct. Arnold John Carey Marujo, 19, of Somerville, faces an...

After months of rehab, the woman who was struck by a bolt of lightning while walking her dog on a Dorchester beach in September is finally back home.

A serious crash in Reading, Massachusetts, has closed down the Route 129 rotary on Sunday afternoon, impacting both Reading and Wakefield. Just after 3 p.m., Reading police asked drivers to avoid the area, saying this shutdown would affect Route 128 and Interstate 95. Further details about the crash were not...

A Lowell man's heist has landed him behind bars after authorities say he played stickup artist at a Tewksbury convenience store— waving what turned out to be a phony gun— before being collared in a dramatic early-morning SWAT raid. The 20-year-old Domenic Myers Yancy is accused of grandstanding with a replica firearm during the Nov. 19 robbery of Andy's Variety on Woburn Street, where he allegedly played a game of cops and robbers for real, snatching both cash and cigarettes before beating a hasty retreat into the nearby woods, according to CBS News Boston.