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As a deep freeze continues to impact New England on Saturday morning, thousands of customers were in the dark across the region, although the number of outages was decreased between Friday night and early Saturday morning. There were more than 60,000 customers across New England without power around 8:30 p.m., but that number went down to around 12...

After erupting for 139 points against the Nets, the Celtics offense went ice-cold against the short-handed Suns on Friday night. We share our takeaways.

In one of the coldest and windiest places in the United States, a cat dozed through a historic storm Friday, with winds whipping up to 120 mph and the thermometer dropping far below -32 Fahrenheit. Nimbus, the cat who lives 6,288 feet above sea level at Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, was nice and warm while t...

Emergency responders were preparing Friday for an increase in calls to help vulnerable people outside in Boston as temperatures drop to extreme levels. Temperatures were already in the teens by Friday afternoon, and there was a small uptick in 911 calls for requests to check on people outside in the city. “There’s a crew right now check...

As the teacher strike continued Friday in Woburn, Massachusetts, keeping schools for a fifth straight day, a judge has ordered the state’s largest teachers union to stop supporting it. The judge granted an injunction against the Massachusetts Teachers Association, ordering the union to stop “encouraging or condoning” the strike. P...

It’s cold outside. Really cold. But if you want to know real cold, talk to the folks at the Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. “There is half of me that loves what is going on right now, and the other half of me is pretty terrifying,” said meteorologist Francis Tarasiewicz, at work atop the moun...

The Boston Red Sox have traded right-hander Franklin German to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for right-hander Theo Denlinger. German was DFA’d by the Red Sox on Monday.

A baby died when a tree fell on a woman’s vehicle in Southwick, Massachusetts, on Friday morning, authorities said. The mother, a 23-year-old from nearby Winsted, Connecticut, was also seriously injured in the crash on Feeding Hills Road, according to the Hampden District Attorney’s Office. The tree was apparently felled by strong winds...

As a daylong deep freeze settled onto New England Friday morning, several thousand power customers were in the dark across the region, though the worst of the outages may yet be to come. There were more than 60,000 customers across New England without power around 8:30 p.m., but that number went down to around 25,000 later Friday night. The thermom...

A judge is allowing Lindsay Clancy, the mother from Duxbury, Massachusetts, accused of killing her three kids, to speak to a forensic psychologist ahead of her upcoming arraignment in the children’s deaths last month. The judge granted the defense’s motion at a hearing in Plymouth District Court Friday, hours after Clancy’s attorn...

The Arctic air has arrived and our temperatures keep crashing down this Friday afternoon. Our warmest temperatures already happened this morning, we’re now watching the thermometer going below 0 in northern New England with wind chills 30 degrees below. The thing is, our coldest air will take over tonight and into the early morning hours Satur...

A former athletic trainer at Lowell High School is accused of inappropriately touching two girls at the high school in Lowell, Massachusetts, prosecutors said Friday. Damon Amato, of Northboro, appeared in court last week to face three charges of indecent assault and battery, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office. The inapprop...

Authorities in New Hampshire are investigating the shooting death of an adult male on Friday morning in Berlin, New Hampshire. Officials from the state attorney general’s office said Berlin police responded to multiple reports of gunshots fired on Sullivan Street around 8:15 a.m. Friday. When they arrived, the found a outside the building suf...