Massachusetts

Boston police are investigating after a giant Black Lives Matter hung outside Fenway Park was vandalized last week. Police said they received a report about the banner on Wednesday, but that the person who reported it said the vandalism had occurred on Nov. 13. Images from outside Fenway Park showed that the sign, which had been visible from the Ma...

As students get ready to head home for Thanksgiving, Charlie Baker and six other governors in the Northeast are pushing for colleges to step up testing.

One of Boston’s largest hotels, the Marriott Copley Place, is laying off about half its staff amid the coronavirus pandemic.

With four Boston Public Schools set to resume in-person learning for high-needs students on Monday, Nov. 16, the school district, the teachers union and Mayor Marty Walsh mutually agreed Sunday on additional provisions to keep teachers and students safe. The Boston Teachers Union announced Sunday night that many important safeguards and protections...

Late Sunday, Boston Public Schools, Mayor Marty Walsh’s office, and the Boston Teachers Union said they all came to an agreement on additional provisions to keep teachers and students safe including more personal protective equipment, better ventilation and filtration, and additional COVID testing.

The schools with students returning for in-person learning at the start of the week are the Carter School, the McKinley School, the Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the Henderson Inclusion School, according to the Boston Public Schools district.

A man crashed into a Massachusetts State Police cruiser and a highway worker’s truck while driving drunk and in the wrong late early Sunday morning, leaving the worker injured, officials said. The incident happened after 5 a.m. near a road construction site on Route 3 in Braintree, Massachusetts State Police said. A Jeep Grand Cherokee slamme...

A man running across Interstate 195 in Massachusetts Saturday after getting into an altercation with the driver of his vehicle was hit by a pickup truck and died, police said. The drivers of both vehicles remained at the scene of the crash in Swansea near Exit 8 of the highway, Massachusetts State Police said in announcing details of the incident&#...

A U.S. Coastguard helicopter rescued an injured fisherman 60 miles off of Martha’s Vineyard on Friday, officials said. The call came in around 6 p.m. from a commercial fishing vessel named Persistence, according to a Coast Guard news release. A 50-year-old member of the crew was showing stroke-like symptoms.  A Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter was ab...

Thousands of mourners, including many firefighters, lined the streets of Worcester Monday to pay their final respects to fallen fire Lt. Jason Menard, who died while saving others during a fire last week. Firefighters from as far as California and Canada were among a sea of first responders who came to salute the fallen lieutenant under drizzly ski...

With Thanksgiving break on the horizon, some colleges and universities in the Boston area are seeing a spike in coronavirus cases on their campuses. The COVID-19 dashboards for Boston University, MIT and Northeastern University have shown recent rises in the number of cases on campus. MIT reported 65 positive tests in the first 13 days of November ...

Governor Charlie Baker said that the state is “nowhere near the uncharted territory” they were in when coronavirus cases rose up in the spring.

State officials are expected to release new information on communities across Massachusetts that are at high risk for COVID-19.