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Loaded handguns turned up after gunfire was reported in Lowell's Acre neighborhood.
Barbara Hirshfield, 83, pleaded guilty to defrauding 204 investors, many from Springfield-area families, through her family's old finance company.
One boater went unresponsive before crews revived him at Town Wharf. The disabled boat's engine failure triggered the ordeal.
Two children near shore and two adults 100 yards out were caught in the same rip current off Sandy Neck. No one was hurt.
Officer Jacob Fluegel, whose late father served nearly 30 years with Wareham Police, put himself in the vehicle's path to stop it.
Shell casings turned up on Turnpike Street after a witness says a passenger fired a handgun mid-pursuit. No suspects identified yet.
A suspect ditched a kilogram of fentanyl from his car mid-chase before police caught him in Haverhill. A second man was arrested on West Dalton Street.
A 22-year-old was thrown from her truck on Route 202 as a father and daughter were trapped in a burning Expedition nearby.
Pekings Aziwung walked out of a Massachusetts prison and straight into federal custody, records show.
Salvatore Venuti allegedly stuffed drugs down his pants and dented a cruiser resisting arrest on Madison Street.
Police say Aaron Meuse struck one victim with a puncture-causing weapon before allegedly cutting a second victim's neck at a bar.
A man was stabbed in the torso outside Ashmont Station after an argument, transit police say. It is the third knife attack near the stop since June.
Officials were called to the Washington Street wreck. The roadway was closed while personnel investigated the scene.
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