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Firefighters Battle Blaze Sending Smoke Over Revere
Residents were displaced after a fire raged at a building Tuesday in Revere, Massachusetts. Fire crews could be seen dousing the flames coming from cranes high above what appeared to be two burning triple-decker homes on Hyde Street. Smoke from the blaze rose into the sky over the city. The Revere Fire Department didn’t immediately release information on the...
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Man Dies After Being Pulled From Water in Scituate
A man has died after being rushed to the hospital from the waters off Scituate, Massachusetts, Tuesday. First responders had been searching by sea and air after a man jumped off the Edward Foster Bridge to cool off from the stifling temperatures. The man in the water was found about 3:45 p.m., about 37 minutes after 911 was called, just…
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Retired Mass. Trooper, Air Force Vet IDed as Victims in Winthrop Shooting Rampage
The people who were gunned down in Winthrop, Massachusetts, Saturday by a man who had just crashed a stolen truck have been identified, along with the shooter, who is suspected to have used white supremacist language in the past. The victims were David Green, a 58-year-old retired Massachusetts State Police officer, and Ramona Cooper, a 60-year-old Air Force veteran who…
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Driver Injures 2 Mass. State Troopers During Police Chase in Revere
A driver who’d been leading Massachusetts state troopers on a chase Saturday injured two of them, one in a cruiser and one on foot, in Revere, police said Sunday. The driver who police were pursuing hadn’t yet been captured, according to the Massachusetts State Police said Sunday morning. The incident took place on Belview Road about 8 a.m. Saturday,...
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Here's When the $1M Mass. VaxMillions Lottery Drawings Will Be Held
Looking forward to the chance to win a million dollars just for getting the COVID vaccine? We now know when five fully vaccinated adults living in Massachusetts will become winners of the state’s VaxMillions giveaway, which opens to participants July 1, and five fully vaccinated kids 12-17 will win one of five $300,000 scholarship grants. Winners will be staggered over…
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Celtics Closing in on Hiring New Coach, Nets Assistant Udoka: Report
The Boston Celtics may have their new coach lined up. Three weeks after shaking up their front office by promoting coach Brad Stevens to president of basketball operations as Danny Ainge retired, the team is reportedly close to hiring a Brooklyn Nets assistant to be the new coach. Ime Udoka’s agreement was being finalized, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski....
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Mass. Steamship Authority Didn't Pay Ransom During Cyberattack
The Steamship Authority of Massachusetts resumed its online booking of vehicle and ferry tickets Saturday, a week after its site was hit by a ransomware attack.
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Woman and Son Found Safe, Police Say, After Amber Alert in Manchester, NH
A mother and child reported as missing and possibly in danger were found safe, police in Manchester, New Hampshire, said Tuesday evening, shortly after issuing an Amber Alert and asking for the public’s help in finding them. The missing people are Alis Marie Roman-Salgado, 26, and her 4-year-old son. They were “reported missing under suspicious circumstances,” Manchester police initially said….
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Mass. Reaches 4.1M Vaccination Goal, Though a Few Weeks Late
Massachusetts has reached its long-sought goal of fully vaccinating 4.1 million people, though the achievement comes a few weeks later than Gov. Charlie Baker had initially wanted. He noted that the Bay State reached his goal in a tweet on Tuesday, in which he thanked health care workers and others who volunteered at vaccine clinics, as well as the roughly…
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Dump Truck Crashes on I-495 in Raynham, Spilling Asphalt
A dump truck spilled a load of asphalt onto the shoulder of Interstate 495 in Raynham, Massachusetts, Tuesday, state police said. The driver was left with minor injuries, police said on Twitter. Aerial footage showed the crash caused a backup on the northbound side of the highway, which police said caused the right lane to be closed. The truck was…
