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A horse whose life was on the line after its owner passed away will be rehomed to live out his final years at a rescue on Cape Cod. Brady – named after longtime Patriots quarterback Tom Brady – was beloved by his owner Barbara Collins of Sandwich, Massachusetts. But her dying wish to be buried alongside the animal put his…

Fellow U.S. Army reservists who witnessed the mental and physical decline of a colleague who would commit Maine’s deadliest mass shooting told a commission investigating the killings Thursday that they tried to intervene before the tragedy. Six weeks before Robert Card killed 18 people at a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston, his best friend and fel...

A cold front moved through Wednesday night and brought some wicked wind and really cold temperatures Thursday morning.  Lows bottomed out in the teens and 20s across northern New England. Boston slipped down to 34 with patchy frost.  Thursday afternoon will only reach the 50s across the Northeast, with afternoon sea breeze temps at t...

A 29-year-old was arrested on Wednesday after police clocked him driving his BMW over 100 mph on Interstate 93 in Windham, New Hampshire. Troopers were conducting a high-visibility traffic enforcement initiative on I-93 to detect and deter speeding and aggressive drivers when a state police aircraft spotted a BMW 228i traveling at 108 mph. Police o...

The Boston bouncer who allegedly stabbed a 23-year-old Marine veteran to death in March of 2022 pleaded guilty to manslaughter during a hearing Thursday morning in Suffolk Superior Court. Alvaro Omar Larrama, who was a bouncer at the former Sons of Boston bar on Union Street near Faneuil Hall, was charged in the killing of Daniel Martinez. Martinez...

Police in Brookline, Massachusetts, issued an advisory Thursday morning to notify the public that a credit card skimmer had been found at a gas station in town. Brookline police didn’t specify which business the skimmer was found at, saying only that it was found the other day inside a gas pump. Police used the opportunity to remind people th...

The judge and lawyers in the Karen Read case on Thursday settled many — but not all — of the issues that were left to decide before the trial, one of Massachusetts’ most closely watched legal sagas, begins next week.

A person was killed when their truck slammed into a large tree and burst into flames in Pelham, New Hampshire, on Wednesday afternoon. Pelham police say they were notified around 3:12 p.m. of a motor vehicle crash near 970 Mammoth Road. As first responders headed toward the scene, they learned a black Chevy Avalanche was fully engulfed in flames wi...

Boston police tore down a pro-Palestinian encampment on Emerson College’s campus overnight, arresting more than 100 people, and appeared poised to do the same to a new demonstration that formed at Northeastern University’s campus Thursday afternoon. Dozens of people, apparently including students and faculty, formed a ring around an enc...

What happened to spring? We’ve managed to shake the incessant rain, but the cold shots keep coming. We’re not quite out of the woods yet, either. Another frost/freeze is likely into Friday morning. After that, the temps will slowly rise through the weekend. The process is compounded near the coast with the daily sea breezes through the early part.....

A man has died by suicide after he barricaded himself inside his North Andover, Massachusetts, home late Wednesday night and fired at the officers who responded, officials said. North Andover police say they received a 911 call around 9:50 p.m. from a resident at 416 Waverly Road who said a family member was experiencing a mental health episode ins...

The Boston Bruins re-took the lead in their playoff series with the Toronto Maple Leafs with a 4-2 win on the road Wednesday night. Brad Marchand scored the game-winning goal seconds after the Leafs had equalized, giving the Bruins a 2-1 lead in the opening round and re-establishing home ice advantage. The Bruins won the series opener but dropped G...

The Heat pulled off a major upset against the Celtics in Boston Wednesday. Jaylen Brown scored 33 points and Jayson Tatum put up 28 in the 111-101 home loss. Three Heat players — Tyler Herro, Bam Adebayo and Caleb Martin — put up at least 21. The Celtics and Heat play Game 3 in Miami Saturday. More to come.