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Boston police looking for missing 17-year-old
The Boston Police Department has asked for the public's help locating a 17-year-old boy who has been missing for a week. Jaize Shabazz-Fealy, of Dorchester, was last seen around 2 p.m. Monday, May 6, in the area of Melvin H. King South End Academy, located at 90 Warren Avenue, according to police.
Ex-Marshfield fire chief wins lawsuit: Town's actions were 'extreme and outrageous'
MARSHFIELD – Former fire chief Kevin Robinson has won a settlement of more than $1.5 million in a lawsuit alleging he was pushed out as fire chief in 2015 in retaliation for lodging internal complaints. The suit's other charges also include age discrimination. Lawyers for the town officials named...
A taste of summer-like weather Tuesday before more rain
We get a taste of summer on Tuesday! A mix of sun and clouds with highs in the upper 70s along the coast and low 80s inland. This will be the warmest day of the next 10 and well above the normal high temperature. Boston's normal high is 66 degrees and by the end of the month, the normal highs will be in the low 70s.
Mayor in Massachusetts could soon become highest-paid mayor in country
QUINCY, Mass. — The mayor of the seventh-largest city in Massachusetts could potentially become the highest-paid mayor in the United States. Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch has a current salary of $150,943, and according to Dorminson Consulting, he has not gotten a raise in nine years. Dorminson Consulting studied mayoral...
25 Investigates: Mass. approves hundreds with criminal records to provide childcare
The state agency that regulates Massachusetts daycares allowed a home daycare owner in Boston to keep her license after it was discovered she had been indicted on federal drug trafficking charges, according to a source inside the agency.
SUV with no driver causes scare on Cohasset field where kids were playing
COHASSET − A car with two small children inside but no driver caused a scare as it rolled out of control across a sports field of Cohasset Middle School as children played lacrosse, police said. Cohasset police said they received multiple 911 calls around 10:40 a.m. Saturday morning reporting...
Plymouth County Deputies Join Forces with Special Olympics Athletes in Brockton
Members of the Plymouth County Sheriff's Department (PPD) joined the community in Brockton for the Special Olympics Track and Field Qualifier Meet, showcasing not just law enforcement presence but personal investment in athlete triumphs. The Plymouth County Sheriff's Department's Facebook page heralded Officer Laicey Ieronimo, coach of the Middleboro YMCA team, whose seven athletes were described as "crushing it today."
Boston police recover firearm after breaking and entering call in Dorchester
BOSTON –– Officers assigned to the Anti-Crime Unit of District C-11 (Dorchester) arrested a 16-year-old juvenile male on firearm charges. Officers responded to the area of Wrentham Street and Florida Street for a report of a group of teenagers breaking into motor vehicles. Officers observed the group of...
Three men charged in Whitey Bulger's 2018 prison killing have plea deals, prosecutors say
BOSTON — Three men charged in the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger have reached plea deals with prosecutors, according to court papers filed Monday. The plea deals were disclosed nearly six years after the 89-year-old gangster, who spent almost two decades on...
Four pulled from water in Plymouth County. One reported dead
HALIFAX, MASS. (WJAR) — Four people were taken from the water after a small boat overturned on Monponsett Pond in Halifax, Massachusetts this morning. According to reports only three survived. Halifax Fire Chief Mike Witham says first responders from Halifax and Hanson were able to get three people out...
1st person to receive pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months later
BOSTON - The first person to receive a genetically-modified pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after he underwent the procedure. Richard "Rick" Slayman had the transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital in March at the age of 62. Surgeons said they believed the pig kidney would last for at least two years.
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