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Hector Ruiz was killed when a car in a police chase struck his vehicle. His best friend, Gabriel Flores, was also injured.

Fourteen people were hurt when a car slammed into an Irish pub, causing the building to catch fire in Arlington’s Courthouse neighborhood Friday evening.

Three Arlington, Massachusetts, police officers were disciplined following a February incident that sparked allegations of racial profiling and excessive force, the department said after a lawsuit was filed earlier this week. While Arlington police deny that there is evidence to support a claim of racial profiling or excessive use of force, they said in a statement Friday that an outside…

A civil rights lawsuit has been filed against the Arlington, Mass. Police Department. The plaintiff of the lawsuit is 20-year-old Donovan Johnson, a Black man who says he was racially profiled, illegally stopped and arrested back in February. The lawsuit says Arlington police responded to reports of a theft at the Homewood Suites, and were told the suspect was a…

Donovan Johnson, a 20-year-old Black man, says he was racially profiled, illegally stopped and arrested in February.

The league also announced San Antonio, Las Vegas and Orlando as newcomers, replacing New York, Los Angeles and Tampa Bay.

A man was arrested Friday on murder charges in the April killings of a woman and man in New Hampshire, officials said. Craig Keville, 33, was arrested Friday in Arlington, Massachusetts, a day after an arrest warrant was issued in New Hampshire in the killings of Holly Banks, 28, and Keith Labelle, 42, April 27 in Gorham, New Hampshire, officials…

After an assault in Billerica, authorities searched for the suspect in Cambridge and Arlington, but he was not found.

Massachusetts State Police say a search for a domestic assault suspect in Arlington and Cambridge on Tuesday afternoon has ended without an arrest. “Search has ended with negative results,” state police said in a tweet at 2 p.m. “The victim in the case is an adult female. Investigation will be ongoing and be led by local police. The case is…

Investigators say a fire in the basement of a church rectory in Arlington, Massachusetts, on Tuesday might have been intentionally set and a reward is being offered for information that helps solve the case. The fire was reported early Tuesday morning at 22 Appleton St., the rectory for St. Athanasius the Great Church, which is located on the same street….

Arlington police says coyotes are no strangers to the area but one had developed an affinity for humans, and it had to be put down.

A coyote spotted for several weeks lurking around a school playground in Arlington, Massachusetts, has been put down by authorities after it was being fed by nearby residents. Police are now urging residents to avoid feeding the animals after the one coyote kept returning to a Crosby Street neighborhood in northeast Arlington. The concern was that it was getting too…

Major defense contractor Raytheon Technologies is moving its headquarters from Massachusetts to Virginia.

Raytheon Technologies, one of the biggest defense contractors in the country, is moving its corporate headquarters from Waltham, Massachusetts, to Arlington, Virginia, the company announced Tuesday. Arlington is home to the U.S. Pentagon, and Raytheon said in a news release that being there “increases agility in supporting U.S. government and commercial aerospace customers and serves to reinforce partnerships that...

Firefighters battled a blaze in Arlington, Massachusetts, on Tuesday morning. The fire was reported after 7 am. in a home on Belton Street. Few details were immediately available, but a deputy fire chief at the scene said no one was injured. The Somerville and Cambridge fire departments assisted at the fire scene. Arlington fire officials said around 9 a.m. that…

The National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation will break ground on the Arlington museum on Friday morning.

An Arlington, Massachusetts, mother is recovering from a serious brain injury after a tragic fall while on a family trip in Puerto Rico. Beth Callahan had just left her job at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center to take a break from the coronavirus pandemic and was on her first vacation when she fell. “For this to happen to her, when…

Beth Callahan had just left her job at Lahey Hospital, needing a break from the COVID pandemic. She jumped on a plane to Puerto Rico for a family vacation but then tragedy struck while there.

A Quincy, Mass. man has been indicted on charges accusing him of obstructing an investigation into fires set at Jewish-affiliated institutions in Arlington, Needham and Chelsea, Mass. in 2019, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.