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A large protest closed part of Massachusetts Avenue to traffic as supporters of the Palestinian people marched through Cambridge after gathering at MIT. According to the school’s police department, Mass. Ave. was closed between Vassar Street and Memorial Drive. “Because of the protest, certain buildings will be put on card access starti...

Worcester’s firefighters union is sounding the alarm about what they’re calling an internal emergency in their own department. The union on Wednesday released their first of many social media posts from a 13-page report detailing a “toxic work environment” that can affect the firefighters’ work. “It drew a clear line between the adminis...

The judge who oversaw a landmark trial about New Hampshire’s youth detention center has refused to discard the $38 million verdict, saying the facility’s leadership “either knew and didn’t care or didn’t care to learn the truth” about endemic physical and sexual abuse. A jury earlier this month sided with David M...

State officials continue to encourage people to seek care at Steward Health Care’s eight Massachusetts hospitals despite the company’s bankruptcy, but a doctor from a neighboring hospital said the message doesn’t tell the whole story. Since Steward filed for bankruptcy in Texas last week, Gov. Maura Healey and others have sought t...

The body of a Massachusetts hiker who’d been missing for nearly a month was found beneath a boulder in New Hampshire’s White Mountains Tuesday, officials said. William Neal Donovan, a 65-year-old avid hiker from Cambridge, was reported missing April 16. His car was located about two weeks later at the Crawford Path parking lot in Carrol...

A flash flood warning was issued in parts of north central Maine Wednesday, but has since expired. See all severe weather alerts in your area here. Those 80-degree temperatures are gone, for now. Tuesday felt very summer-like with the full sunshine and a south wind boosting highs even to near 80 along the east coast and in Boston (official high&#82...

A man is accused of stealing youth hockey jerseys from a home in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood this week. The incident occurred at about 12:12 a.m. Tuesday on Murdock Street, Boston police said. The man was seen entering an enclosed house porch around that time holding a Dunkin’ Donuts bag, according to police. He then allegedly return...

A man was seen pulling a gun during an altercation that left someone with a bite wound at a school bus stop in Marshfield, Massachusetts, Wednesday, police said. The incident prompted a brief lockdown at a nearby school, according to Marshfield police, who arrested the man, identified as Oscar Anderson, 29. He faces charges including assault and ba...

Family members of U.S. Army reservist Robert Card — Lewiston, Maine, mass shooter — are expected to testify before the commission investigating the shooting, according to NBC affiliate News Center Maine. The commission will hear from Card’s family and an official from the Army Reserves’ Psychological Health Program Thursday, reports New...

President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit New Hampshire next week. He will be in Merrimack on Tuesday for an official White House event, the Union Leader reported. Additional details about the visit are expected to be announced later this week. Biden last traveled to New Hampshire in March, speaking about his new budget proposal at a speech at a&#8...

Speaking to a climate summit at the Vatican on Wednesday morning, Gov. Maura Healey announced that Massachusetts is partnering with a social impact investing firm to launch a climate technology workforce training fund, shooting for an initial $10 million combination of public, private and philanthropic dollars it can loan out. With ambitious mid-ce...

The Democrat-controlled Vermont legislature has passed one of the strongest data privacy measures in the country aimed at cracking down on companies’ use of online personal data, which would let consumers file civil lawsuits against companies that break certain privacy rules. However, Republican Gov. Phil Scott has concerns about how part of ...