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A new spot to enjoy local beer, gather with friends and listen to live music is gearing up to open in Medford, Massachusetts. The Great American Beer Hall is under construction on Mystic Avenue and is slated to open up this summer. The venue will feature a 17,000-square-foot, tap-room-style beer hall, an outdoor beer garden, games, unique pizzas an...

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A school employee in Newmarket, New Hampshire, has been charged with possession of child sexual abuse images, according to police. Newmarket police announced last week that they had received information about an incident of possession of child sexual abuse images that might have occurred in the town. They said they sought and obtained a search warr...

The high-profile murder charges against Karen Read are finally set for trial, and the judge in the case is allowing Read’s attorneys to raise the question they have been asking for over a year: Who killed Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe? Prosecutors argue Read is responsible for her boyfriend’s 2022 death outside a Canton home,...

Two unsettling reports of animal cruelty involving dogs in different towns in Massachusetts were unfounded, according to police. Authorities in Townsend and Newburyport issued press releases Friday looking to debunk rumors that had been circulating around the towns. Police in Townsend, located in northern Massachusetts along the New Hampshire borde...

A driver who fled a traffic stop in Worcester allegedly hit a state trooper’s vehicle before driving the wrong way down the Massachusetts Turnpike. State police say a 21-year-old Shrewsbury man, whose name was not released, is believed to have been driving a black Chevrolet Cruze when he drove away from a Worcester Police officer Friday morni...

Construction has resumed on the $1.5 billion South Station Tower project after a fire there earlier this month. Work started up again last week after shutting down following an April 9 involving construction materials on the outside deck of the ninth floor of the construction project. Suffolk, the company overseeing the project, said the fire was c...

A woman was sent to the hospital after a fire broke out in a home in Beverly, Massachusetts, Friday, according to authorities, and her family is trying to find a man who stopped to help. The fire occurred at about 6:52 a.m. on Berkeley Avenue, the Beverly Fire Department said. Kate Robertson is the niece of the homeowner and lives…

[This story first appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk.] A location of a chain of burger spots with local roots appears to have closed. According to a source, Wahlburgers at South Bay in Dorchester is no longer in business, with the website for the chain seeming to confirm that it is gone as it has been removed from the locations section…...

There are plenty of football fans in the Red Sox clubhouse, and they have strong opinions about the Patriots’ plans in the 2024 NFL Draft, writes John Tomase.

More than half of the people who will serve on the Karen Read murder trial jury have been picked after two days of jury selection. Meanwhile, NBC10 Boston obtained the jury questionnaire from the clerk’s office of the Norfolk Superior Court.

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