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A 20-year-old Staten Island man has been arrested on assault charges for allegedly throwing hot coffee onto an MTA bus driver’s face when he was asked to put on a face covering in accordance with COVID rules, officials said. Alexander Lopez allegedly refused to put on a mask when the driver asked him to put on a mask when...

Police are looking for a man who attacked a woman and threatened to rape her Monday morning in Downtown Boston. The victim was walking at Boston Public Garden when a man approached her, putting his hand over her mouth and trying to remove her clothes while making sexually explicit threats, according to police in Boston. The woman broke free from…

Authorities are searching for a man who tried to assault a woman at Boston Public Garden.

Authorities are searching for a man who attacked a woman Monday morning in Downtown Boston.

A Massachusetts man is being held on $25,000 bail as police say he sexually assaulted a woman and held her against her will in a tent for days in a remote part of Fairhaven. The woman told local police that, over the course of two days, she was assaulted multiple times and that her attacker stole her belongings in an…

A man accused of attacking a Massachusetts couple at their home over their sexuality has been held without bail after a dangerousness hearing. Michael Cates of Brockton is accused of a hate crime in the incident at a Taunton couple’s home on June 29, the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office said. He was found dangerous Thursday during an appearance...

Authorities in Boston are warning the public about an attempted sexual assault this weekend in the North End. Police say the attack happened around 2 a.m. Sunday on Prince Street, about a block from Hanover Street near the Paul Revere House. A woman was walking in the area when a man came up to her and attempted to sexually assault…

Police are investigating an attempted assault in Boston’s North End.

An MBTA bus driver was assaulted in a road rage incident last month, Massachusetts authorities said Tuesday, as they sought the public’s help identifying two men they say were involved. The incident happened on an MBTA bus on Brook Road in Milton on June 25, according to a post on Mass. Most Wanted. The 60-year-old bus driver was struck 10…

A drunk man allegedly attacked an Acushnet, Massachusetts police officer and spit on other officers during an incident over the weekend, according to police. Robert Nobrega, 35 of New Bedford, “appeared intoxicated,” according to police, slurring his words as he screamed at the officers and “became belligerent.” According to police, the officers were speaking to a homeowner about reports of…

Police say an argument in a supermarket parking lot escalated into an assault in which the victim said she was targeted by homophobic slurs in Portland, Maine. Police said 63-year-old Michael Roylos, of Portland, shouted at a motorist he accused of reckless driving and then assaulted her when she began recording the confrontation with her cellphone. Police Lt. Robert Martin…

A white couple face criminal charges after one of them was captured on video pulling a handgun on a Black woman and her daughters in a restaurant parking lot in Michigan

An 81-year-old pizza shop owner is recovering after allegedly being attacked by a man who refused to wear a mask in his restaurant.

A man was arrested for allegedly punching an elderly pizzeria owner in the face on Cape Cod this weekend. The confrontation began, the owner said, after he’d told the group to keep socially distancing. “I tell him to sit down, you can’t stay all together by the bar,” George Kraniotakis recalled. “He say, ‘You no tell me what to...

Prosecutors say two Buffalo police officers have been charged with assault after a video showed them shoving a 75-year-old protester

A Massachusetts man is likely feeling more sour than sweet after being charged with assault for throwing a pickle out of his car window, hitting a state employee who was working on the road. Vermont State police said Christoph Herrmannsdoerfer of Williamstown, Massachusetts was driving on Route 7 in Pownal on Monday when he threw a large pickle out of…

A lawsuit accuses four white suburban St. Louis police officers of brutalizing a 68-year-old black woman and her adult son after wrongly accusing them of stealing a television

A man has been arrested after he allegedly jumped nude onto the hood of a woman’s vehicle and attacked her in Beverly, Massachusetts. Police responded around 11:30 a.m. Monday to the intersection of Washington Street and Lovett Street after receiving a report of a man with a gun. After getting to the scene, police say they learned that man...

Two guards at a federal prison in Massachusetts have pleaded not guilty to charges resulting from what authorities called an assault on a “vulnerable inmate.” Seth Bourget, 39, of Woodstock, Connecticut, was arraigned Thursday in federal court in Boston on deprivation of rights charges. Bourget kneed an inmate in the head while the inmate was handcuffed and restrained in a…