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A commercial lobster diver says he was swallowed whole by a whale off the Massachusetts coast Friday but made it out alive with only minor injuries following the life and death encounter. Michael Packard, 56, of Wellfleet, was released hours later from a Cape Cod hospital following his scary encounter...

BOSTON — A judge has rejected a plea deal in the extortion case against the ex-chief of staff to a former Massachusetts mayor that called for her to serve no time behind bars. Genoveva Andrade, who was chief of staff to former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia, was set to...

A 1-year-old French Bulldog has been reunited with his grateful owners two days after escaping from his yard in Quincy, Massachusetts. A suspect will face larceny charges, according to Quincy Police. Bruno the dog slipped right through his collar and took off Thursday night. It's unclear how police found Bruno,...

A Cape Cod lobster diver, who says a humpback whale swallowed him, is opening up about his experience. Michael Packard, 56, was on the coast of Provincetown, MA early Friday morning when he was picking up lobsters 35 feet underwater, at which point he claims the whale swallowed him. “All...

BOSTON (WHDH) - A Transit Police officer was attacked by a stray dog at the Shawmut MBTA station on Wednesday, officials said. The officer responding to a report of a stray dog running loose at the station around 5:45 a.m. found a dog, possibly a German Shephard mix, unleashed and unattended. When the officer approached the dog to see if it had any tags or identifiers, the dog reportedly lunged at the officer and bit his hand, according to the MBTA Transit Police.

BOSTON (WHDH) - A Boston man was arrested earlier this week on human trafficking charges after an investigation revealed he allegedly sexually abused and exploited a teenager, Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins announced Friday. Tristan Reid, 21, of Mattapan, was arraigned Wednesday in Boston Municipal Court on charges of human...

NEW BEDFORD, MASS. (WLNE) – Days after the death of their daughter, the parents of a North Scituate woman who died after a motorcycle crash, are speaking out and hoping to get answers as to how the crash happened. Krystal Geraldo, 24, died Tuesday after sustaining serious injuries when the...

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — A veteran Cape Cod, Massachusetts lobster diver is home from the hospital after he says he was swallowed by a humpback whale off the coast of Provincetown early Friday morning. Michael Packard says his vessel was positioned off Herring Cove Beach, surrounded by a fleet of fishing...

A Providence police officer was reportedly sprayed with an unknown substance while breaking up a fight on Federal Hill and transported to the hospital for treatment. Multiple units were called in to respond to a large disturbance at 73 Ridge Street on Thursday and three individuals were charged. About Incident.

Massachusetts is going to celebrate Juneteenth, once a forgotten celebration, as a federally recognized state holiday. Juneteenth, which occurs every June 19, marks the day in 1865 when Galveston, Texas, slaves were the last ones told they were free two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. It was also two months after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered. The state has signed legislation authorizing it as a state holiday, WBTS-CD reported.

A Massachusetts lobster diver says he was trapped inside the mouth of a whale on Friday morning for over :30 seconds in a harrowing experience in which he thought he was going to die. Luckily, the humpback whale who swallowed the man wasn't all that interested in eating him, spitting...

SHREWSBURY - Police responded to a home on Melody Ln. on Friday night, June 11, in response to a man reported to be armed and suicidal at a residence there. A resident of the home reported to emergency services around 6 PM that the man, armed with a firearm and who made statements about suicide, had barricaded himself inside the bathroom of the home.