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A Massachusetts man who has worked as a school bus driver is accused of raping a child. Derek Thistle, a 32-year-old Marlborough resident, appeared in Middlesex Superior Court Friday to face a slew of charges. Thistle was arraigned on charges of forcible rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child, indecent assault and battery on a child under 14&#...

As police investigate allegations that a student threatened to shoot up a school in Milton, Massachusetts, a parent is questioning administrators’ handling of the situation. A woman whose daughter attends Fontbonne Academy, an all-girl Catholic prep school, tells NBC10 Boston she does not think the school took the threat seriously enough. The...

5/4/24 UPDATE: Police say a 20-year-old man has died from his injuries; the second victim remains in critical condition at a local hospital. At least two men are fighting for their lives after being stabbed during a fight at the Town Common in the Whitinsville section of Northbridge, Massachusetts, state police say. Sky ranger capturing the scene a...

Celtics top assistant Charles Lee reportedly is among the Lakers’ candidates to replace Darvin Ham as head coach.

A Massachusetts man convicted of involuntary manslaughter after he drowned his father in a Duxbury pond was sentenced to prison on Friday. Jack Callahan, now 22, told police in 2021 that he tried to exorcise a “demon” from his father, 57-year-old Scott Callahan, by baptizing him at Island Creek Pond. Callahan, then 19, was originally ch...

Pivotal April tax collections beat expectations by more than $1 billion in Massachusetts, but the strong month for revenues does not mean the state now has an extra $1 billion to balance the fiscal year 2024 budget. Collections of $6.324 billion last month exceeded the Healey administration’s monthly benchmark of $5.291 billion by $1.034 bill...

Boston City Council is looking to help homeowners along private roadways afford repairs. Many of the city’s streets have fallen into disrepair as locals grapple with the costs associated with repaving. District 5 City Councilor Enrique Pepen called for a hearing on the issue and says it’s critical to ease the strain on these constituent...

One person was taken to the hospital after a stabbing in East Boston on Friday afternoon. Investigators swarmed a Brandywyne Drive apartment community Friday after a call came in that a resident had been stabbed. The resident, a deaf woman, was brought to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. “I never would have thought ...

Veteran big man Al Horford discussed the “maturity” and “growth” the Celtics showed with their dominant Game 5 performance vs. the Heat.

A pair of opposing protests took place Friday on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, amid continued turmoil over the ongoing war in Gaza. A rally in support of Israeli and Jewish MIT students was set up across the street from an anti-war encampment that’s been up for over a week, and which the university’s president has sought t...

The Bruins are reeling, but as John Tomase writes, history is on their side against a Leafs team that consistently comes up short in Game 7s.

Authorities have identified three people who died in a murder-suicide at an apartment in Lowell, Massachusetts in April.