2022 Massachusetts State Senate Election Results: Plymouth and Barnstable District (Susan Moran vs. Kari MacRae)

If Woburn educators don’t reach an acceptable contract agreement with the Woburn School Committee and Mayor Scott Galvin by Monday, they voted to strike. The Woburn Teachers Association voted to authorize the strike Friday. The last agreement the educators’ union signed only lasted for the 2021 to 2022 school...

In an increasingly familiar refrain, Gov. Maura Healey sounded the alarm about acute workforce shortages to hundreds of health care leaders and medical professionals Friday. Healey, whose family includes a long line of caregivers, praised members of the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association at their annual meeting in downtown Boston, particularly for their resiliency and life-saving efforts during the grueling COVID-19 pandemic.

The third Clancy child, an 8-month-old baby boy who was found injured inside the family’s Duxbury home Tuesday night, died Friday morning, the Plymouth District Attorney’s Office said. Callan Clancy was pronounced dead at about 11:18 a.m. Friday at Children’s Hospital in Boston. The Office of the Chief...

Adam Montgomery was indicted for second-degree murder charges for the killing of his five-year-old daughter, Harmony Montgomery, according to media reports from multiple outlets including WCVB, WMUR and Boston 25. New Hampshire courts did not immediately respond to a request for information Friday morning. The New Hampshire man was arrested...

A former Massachusetts police officer and his brother were indicted on several additional charges in connection with an alleged Mass Save bribery and kickback that’s netted an estimated tens of millions of dollars for the pair. In federal court Thursday, former Stoneham Police Officer, Joseph Ponzo, 49, and his...

A $100,000 scratch ticket was claimed on Wednesday in Central Massachusetts, according to the Massachusetts State Lottery. The winning ticket, a “$15,000,000 Money Maker” scratch ticket, was purchased from Papacalos Variety store in Clinton. It was one of 23 total tickets from that game worth $600 or more claimed on Wednesday, Jan. 26.

Massachusetts transportation officials are reporting serious injuries after a rollover crash on Lawrence on Interstate 495 on Friday morning. The crash happened in the northbound lane of the highway at Route 114, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation reported at 8:06 a.m. Two lanes are closed headed north and MassDOT warned...

A dam break in Halifax is causing major flooding in the nearby town of East Bridgewater, forcing some residents to resort to using canoes to get by, according to Boston25news. According to East Bridgewater police, Pond Street is closed at the boat ramp since the water is overflowing the road/bridge in the area of Robin’s Pond.

Framed by symbolic billowing smoke from six glass columns etched with six million serial numbers honoring the Jews murdered in World War II, Jack Arbeiter recounted to an Arlington school group Friday in downtown Boston how his parents had saved each each other from perishing in the concentration camps. His...

A federal grand jury in Boston indicted four individuals, including two Lowell residents, for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and launder the proceeds in Massachusetts and Virginia, U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins’ office announced Tuesday. Sathra Em of Lowell received two indictments, with one on...

The third time was definitely the charm for one Massachusetts State Lottery retailer on Tuesday, Jan. 24 when it sold three winning $20,000 Keno tickets. The American Veteran James J. Rice Post 28 in Dorchester sold each of the three winning $20,000 Keno tickets. Keno is a drawing game where...

A Boston man who authorities are calling a “serial bank robber” is facing charges in connection with the September 2022 robbery of a Brookline bank, United States Attorney Rachael S. Rollins’s Office said. Jerome Lamont Turner, 47, was charged with one count of bank robbery and will...

A Boston man who worked as a dentist in Hyannis pleaded guilty to a $1.2 million embezzlement fraud scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. Jack Massarsky, 65, embezzled the $1.2 million from his employer, and fraudulently obtained government benefits in his employer’s name,...

SPRINGFIELD — Railcar manufacturer CRRC is making progress with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to address quality and safety issues on its Springfield-built Orange and Red line subway cars. The MBTA expects to put six additional Orange Line cars from CRRC into service beneath the streets of Boston in...

One Massachusetts restaurant landed itself on the list of Yelp’s top 100 restaurants in the country for 2023. Yelp put together this year’s most popular and highly rated restaurants, according to their users comments. Then, the site ranked each restaurant by total number of submissions, ratings, reviews and geographic representation, among other factors.

Prosecutors said Thursday that they had issued a warrant for the arrest of a Duxbury mother expected to face murder and strangulation charges following the deaths of two of her three children earlier this week. Lindsay Clancy, 32, is charged with strangling her 5-year-old daughter, 3-year-old son and 7-month old...

Acton authorities have identified the pedestrian victim of a fatal hit-and-run crash Monday. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and interim Acton Police Chief James Cogan announced that Irene Durand-Bryan, 66, was struck by a white Ford van on Concord Road in front of her home at about 11:45 a.m. The van fled the scene of the crash, but the driver, a 60-year-old Acton man, returned later and surrendered to police.

Hours before police body camera footage of the moments leading up to Tyre Nichols’ death at the hands of five Memphis police officers, one reverend in Boston is calling for peace in his city. Reverend Kevin Peterson, founder of Boston-based New Democracy Coalition, spoke before Boston 25 News and...

The Fall River Superior Court sentenced Kenny Gonzalez of New Bedford to serve 10 to 12 years in state prison for trafficking fentanyl, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced Thursday. On Sept. 15, 2022, New Bedford police executed a search warrant at the Nash Road public housing...

A Marshfield woman who won a $1 million lottery prize in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s “Electric 7″ ticket game will be spending the money to go on a vacation, the lottery said. Coash claimed her prize on Jan. 18. She chose the cash option on her prize...