Avon

A mayday was called Sunday night after a firefighter fell through the floor while helping battle a house fire in Avon, Massachusetts. Avon fire officials tell NBC10 Boston there was heavy fire showing on the side, as well as the first and second floors, of the multi-family home on East Main St. house when they arrived, prompting them to call…

Family and friends of Keith McKechnie, an Avon, Massachusetts, man who was missing for nearly three months before his body was found in a well on his property this weekend, say they are devastated by the outcome.

An Avon, Massachusetts, man who was missing for nearly three months was found dead in a well right in his yard. Keith McKechnie hadn’t been seen since Sept. 7.

Three drivers were seriously injured overnight in a multi-car crash on Route 24 in Avon, Massachusetts, that resulted in at least two of them being thrown from their vehicles, police announced. State police say the crash occurred on Route 24 southbound near exit 35B around 1:22 a.m. Sunday. According to police, the first driver, a 24-year-old Dorchester woman, was taken…

The body of a man reported missing in September was found inside a well on the property of a home in Avon.

11/26/23 UPDATE: Family and friends of Keith McKechnie tell NBC10 Boston they are devastated by the outcome. A man who had been missing since early September was found dead inside a well on the property of a home in Avon, Massachusetts, on Saturday. The Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office announced the man’s body was retrieved from the well in...

3 people were taken to the hospital from the scene, according to fire officials.

Emergency crews responded overnight to a crash on Route 24 in Avon, Massachusetts. According to the Randolph Fire Department, three people had to be taken to the hospital from the scene of the wreck. The crash is under investigation by Massachusetts State Police. Additional details were not immediately available.

A 3-year-old girl survived a fall from a roof in Avon, Massachusetts, on Friday, officials said. A passing driver spotted the girl sitting on a second-story roof of a building on W. Main Street near Johnson Road and called police about 11:19 a.m., according to Avon’s police and fire departments. When the agencies got to the building, they learned...

A bear broke into a bakery in Avon Wednesday morning, helped itself to 60 cupcakes and made a “bluff charge” toward an employee. It happened at Taste By Spellbound on West Main Street in Avon. The kitchen supervisor for the bakery said she was putting baked goods in a vehicle in the garage area at the back of the bakery…

A Springfield, Massachusetts man has been found guilty of a kidnapping that happened in Avon nearly 40 years ago. The State’s Attorney’s Office said 75-year-old George Legere is charged with first-degree kidnapping for an incident that happened in the early morning hours on April 13, 1984. A woman that was getting out of her parked car parked at an Avon…

One man is dead after a car collided with a tractor-trailer in Avon, Massachusetts early Saturday morning. Massachusetts State Police says the crash happened around 2:20 a.m. on Route 24. A Toyota Camry was traveling southbound when it rear-ended a tractor-trailer, then proceeded to go off the road into the median and caught on fire, while the tractor-trailer hit the…

Two Massachusetts state troopers were almost hit by an SUV on Saturday morning while pulling someone over on Route 24 South in Avon, according to the agency. While the two troopers were outside of their parked cruisers, police said, a 2014 Dodge Journey SUV unaware of slowing traffic on the highway rolled over and nearly hit them after striking a…

Three teenagers were arrested and are facing charges following a police pursuit overnight from Avon to Milton, Massachusetts, officials announced.