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A 5-year-old boy who was flown to a Boston hospital after falling from a third-story window in Manchester, New Hampshire, last week has died, officials said. Police in Manchester confirmed Monday that the child, whose name was not given after the incident last Tuesday afternoon, had died from his injuries. The boy was found unconscious, with head t...

As Massachusetts thaws out from last weekend’s deep freeze, plumbers across the state are still playing catch up on all of the calls for burst pipes. At Baker Elman Plumbing in Newton, they received close to 700 calls over the weekend. Most of them were for burst or frozen pipes. They are trying to get to all of them, but…

Cabinets, doors, stoves and vanities. They are just a few of the ever-changing selection of products you can find at the Boston Building Resources Reuse Center. The organization, located in Roxbury, has been there since the 1970s when the co-op started, and then shortly after that, the Reuse Center began as a project of the co-op.  The center resel...

Living in New England can present its own set of weather challenges, especially when it comes to extreme weather. Temperatures increased by nearly 59 degrees from Saturday morning, when it was -10 degrees out, to 38 hours later on Sunday afternoon! This sets the record for largest temperature change recorded in a 38-hour time frame. The previous re...

A Roman Catholic Diocese that covers central Massachusetts has published a new report about clergy sexual abuse of minors between 1950 and 2022, but unlike similar reports released by many other dioceses, the report did not include the names of the priests who were found to have committed abuse. In the report made public Friday, Bishop Robert McMan...

Did someone worm their way into your heart, only to rip it out? What better way to return the favor this Valentine’s Day than by naming a parasite after them?

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is expected to travel out of state this week to attend the State of the Union Address and the National Governors Association meetings in Washington, D.C. It will be her first trip outside of the state since taking office last month and the first time the governor’s powers will be handed down to Lt. Gov.......

The rules about the minimum and maximum sizes of lobsters that can be trapped off New England could soon become stricter, potentially bringing big changes to one of the most valuable seafood industries in the country. Fishers are required to measure lobsters from eyes to tail and must throw back the crustaceans if they’re too large or too small. Th...

Family, friends and community members gathered on Sunday to take part in celebrating the life of a 13-year-old boy from Norwood, Massachusetts, who was killed last weekend in nearby Boston.

Police in Lowell, Massachusetts, were searching Monday for the suspect in a masked armed robbery last week at a bank, according to a news release. Police were looking for Nesuh Gebrechristos, 38, who authorities have issued an arrest warrant for on charges of masked armed robbery and threats to commit a crime, a new release from the Lowell Police D...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is once again calling for help from the state to handle persistent homelessness and substance use problems at the city’s “Mass and Cass” intersection. Wu and former Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker clashed on the issue of state support for the troubled area in the fall, and her latest call for help comes w...

A truck got “Storrowed” in Boston shortly after noon on Monday, causing major traffic delays in the area. The truck got stuck under the bridge on Storrow Drive east at Clarendon Street. Photos from the scene showed a major traffic backup behind the crash. No further details were immediately available.

A New Hampshire man is facing multiple charges after he allegedly pointed a gun at a woman and her 3-year-old child during an argument over the weekend. Tyler Bemis, 26, of Manchester, is charged with two counts of felony criminal threatening, two counts of reckless conduct, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, one count of criminal th...