A 40-year-old man was killed and two other men were injured Thursday afternoon in a head-on car crash in Rockland, Massachusetts. The Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office said the crash happened shortly before 2 p.m. in a residential neighborhood on Route 123 when a Nissan hatchback and Mercedes sedan collided head-on. Aerial footage from NBC10 Boston’s SkyRanger Helicopter showed...

Hyannis firefighters made an unusual rescue Thursday when they freed a pet cat that was trapped in a hole in a wall. Crews said the cat’s owners tried to lure the pet from the space but soon noticed she wasn’t able to turn around in the tight space. Pictures of the rescue effort show the cat, named Phoebe, wedged...

A woman is accused of defecating in the parking lot of a Massachusetts outdoor goods store nine times over the past several months after police said she was caught in the act Wednesday.

A student was taken to a hospital with minor injuries Thursday morning after a car crashed into an elementary school in Milford, Massachusetts. Police said the vehicle crashed into Memorial Elementary School around 8:30 a.m. The victim was taken to Milford Hospital “out of an abundance of caution with minor injuries,” Superintendent Kevin McIntyre said. McIntyre said there was minor…

Two people were hospitalized Thursday morning when a wrong-way driver caused a three-car crash in Danvers. The crash happened at 4:53 a.m. when a vehicle entered Route 128 north the wrong way, according to Massachusetts State Police. A 37-year-old Reading woman who was driving a Toyota Sienna van and an 85-year-old Peabody woman driving a Toyota Venza SUV were taken…

An 18-year-old man was shot last Tuesday night in Randolph, Massachusetts, police said. Authorities said they received a report of multiple gunshot wounds at about 11:20 p.m. in the area of West and Old West streets. A 911 caller told police a man in a nearby apartment had suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. The victim, who was only…

Two men were killed and a third person was injured Wednesday morning in a 2-vehicle crash near a Massachusetts high school, according to police. The fatal crash occurred at 4:05 a.m. on Granite Street in Braintree, about a block away from the high school campus. Aerial footage from NBC Boston’s SkyRanger helicopter showed a pickup truck on the right...

Firefighters are investigating the cause of a blaze that claimed the life of one person early Tuesday in Framingham, Massachusetts. The State Fire Marshal’s Office said the overnight inferno was reported at a single-family home located at 46 Swift Rd. Video from the scene showed a two-story home with two windows boarded up. The home’s two garage doors also...

A Massachusetts man was sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of his wife, a beloved Lynn teacher, though he maintained at the Monday hearing that he was innocent. Andrew MacCormack, 31, was found guilty last month of strangling, beating and stabbing 30-year-old Vanessa MacCormack on Sept. 23, 2017.

The man accused of shooting and killing a New Hampshire mother over the weekend is now being held without bail after his arraignment Tuesday.