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A forklift operator was seriously injured in an accident at Boston’s Logan International Airport Tuesday, police said. The worker, a subcontractor for JetBlue, was rushed to Boston Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, according to Massachusetts State Police. The forklift overturned onto the worker about 3:30 p.m. when the machine hit part of a stationary structure at a loading area...

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...

With the influx of migrants increasing, some employees at The Boston Medical Center are calling on Massachusetts to issue a state of emergency. The BMC has been working with the state to accommodate migrants for months. Now, with as many as 100 migrants inside each day, the hospital has changed its policy, saying it would focus its attention on migrants…

Boston Medical Center is changing its policy after an increase in migrants arriving for help led to people sleeping on the floor of the hospital.

The state on Wednesday announced that Boston Medical Center has been provisionally designated to lead the redevelopment of the sprawling Lemuel Shattuck Hospital Campus on Morton Street in Jamaica Plain. The BMC team’s initial proposal calls for two facilities with 326 treatment beds, 200 units of permanent supportive housing, 205 units of family supportive housing, 120 emergency housing beds, and…

The emergency room at Boston Medical Center reopened Monday, earlier than scheduled, after a speedy cleanup from a burst pipe during Saturday’s bitter cold snap. The emergency room had originally been slated to stay closed until Tuesday after water flooded the building from the burst pipe. Patients couldn’t go inside for hours Saturday, with temperatures below zero, and patients...

The emergency room at Boston Medical Center is closed until Tuesday after a pipe burst on Saturday night. Water flooded the building and patients couldn’t walk inside for hours as temperatures plunged below zero. Meanwhile, patients already inside were moved to other parts of the hospital. The dangerously cold weather lead to a code black at Boston Medical Center,...

Water flooded the building and patients couldn’t walk inside for hours as temperatures plunged below zero.

The Prudential Center, Wang Theatre, Boston Medical Center and Brigham and Women’s Hospital were among several major places in Boston impacted by the record-low temperatures on Saturday

The Prudential Center and the Wang Theatre both saw pipes burst due to below freezing temperatures in Boston on Saturday.

Fall is right around the corner, raising prospects of another COVID-19 surge as people return to work, school and indoor activities. Things are different this autumn, the third in the age of COVID. With 80% of Massachusetts fully vaccinated, and new boosters becoming available this week, health experts are waiting to see how things develop. “We anticipate that cases are…

As we head into fall, there are concerns that COVID cases might rise again.

The process for approving new housing development in communities across Massachusetts is “skewed toward an older, white population with the greatest interest in obstructing new development,” according to a new report assembled by two Boston University researchers and released Wednesday by The Boston Foundation. Katherine Levine Einstein and Maxwell Palmer compared the demographics of public officials in more than 20…

The victim was critically injured, police said.

A man was hospitalized Saturday after he was stabbed overnight in Hyannis, Massachusetts, and several people have been arrested, police said. Barnstable police received a 911 call around 1 a.m. Saturday for a stabbing in the area of Old Colony Road and Main Street in Hyannis, according to a joint statement from Cape & Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe and…

One person had to be extricated from their vehicle and subsequently taken by medical helicopter to a Boston hospital following a two-car crash in Millis, Massachusetts, on Wednesday night. Millis fire officials responded to the crash near Middlesex and Ridge streets around 8 p.m., where first responders discovered the crash involving two cars and three people in total, authorities said….