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A Boston lab that produced hundreds of faulty coronavirus test results has been cleared to get back to work.

Jack Thurston joined necn and NBC10 Boston as a reporter in our Vermont news bureau in April 2011.

A man shot in Boston earlier this month has died, police said Sunday. Lance Norwood, 22, of the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood, was shot at about 1 a.m. on Jan. 6 and died Thursday, police said in a statement posted on the department’s website. Officers responding to a call about a person shot on Morton Street in Dorchester found Norwood…

Lance Norwood, 22, of the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood, was shot at about 1 a.m. on Jan. 6 and died Thursday, Boston police said in a statement posted on the department’s website.

A man was seriously injured Saturday morning after intentionally entering the right of way as an Orange Line MBTA subway car approached, according to Transit Police Department Superintendent Richard Sullivan. The MBTA reported a person trapped under a train in a tweet shortly before 10 a.m. Tech rescue companies from the Boston Fire Department safely extricated the man around 9:50…

The spoilage of nearly 2,000 COVID-19 vaccines at the VA Medical Center in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood sparked a reaction from people in the city. Anna Nagurney, a professor of operations management at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is an expert in supply chains, including vaccine rollouts. She says the loss of 1,900 vaccine…

People in Boston responded to the loss of nearly 2,000 COVID-19 vaccines at the VA Medical Center in Jamaica Plain.

The city of Boston reported 485 new coronavirus cases on Friday, officially crossing the 50,000 case threshold. There have now been 50,325 COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic. No new deaths were reported Friday, leaving the total at 1,113. For the week ending Jan. 14, an average of 5,594 people were tested each day, slightly less than the…

A woman was killed in a shooting in broad daylight in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood on Friday afternoon. The shooting occurred around 12:40 p.m. in the area of Bowdoin and Washington streets. When they arrived, police said they found an adult female victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. She was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead....

Police are searching for the person who gunned down a woman in a deadly daytime shooting in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood.

Some businesses in Boston will be allowed to open past 9:30 p.m. starting next week as the state eases some COVID-19 restrictions, but others will be required to remain closed under the city’s cautious reopening plan, Mayor Marty Walsh said Friday. In a press conference, Walsh said Gov. Charlie Baker’s lifting of the state’s early business closure order —...

Mayor Marty Walsh says Boston will allow some businesses to stay open past the 9:30 curfew starting next week, but the city will remain in phase 2, step 2.

Encore Boston Harbor on Friday announced plans resume 24 hour, seven-days-a-week service starting next week, after the Baker administration announced it would lift a business curfew on Monday. In a press release, the casino announced it would open its doors 24-7 starting Wednesday, pending approval from the state gaming commission. The resort casino’s hotel will allow guests to stay Thursday…

[This story first appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk.] A local brewery is going to be closing its Boston location for the time being. According to a source, Night Shift Brewing at Lovejoy Wharf is planning to temporarily shut down this weekend, with a Facebook post from the business saying that it will close after business hours on Saturday, January 23….

There are fewer Massachusetts communities at the highest risk of coronavirus transmission this week than last week, state health data released Thursday shows. The town-by-town coronavirus risk data — which classifies communities’ risk level on a scale from red, the highest, to grey — puts 222 cities and towns in the red zone, from 229 last week. (See the full…

Massachusetts is making coronavirus vaccinations available to more health care workers as of Thursday.

A Massachusetts lawyer who has previously been charged with rape is wanted in Boston on a new rape charge as well as for allegedly breaking and entering at night, police said.

A second person tested positive Tuesday in Massachusetts with the more contagious variant of COVID-19 first detected in the United Kingdom, Public Health Commissioner Monica Bharel said. Bharel said the case of the B.1.1.7 variant was discovered by the Massachusetts Public Health Laboratory, but she did not offer further details. The first case of the new strain of the coronavirus…

Coronavirus vaccines are being rolled out at pharmacies across Massachusetts, a happy day for people who got their first dose.

Fenway Park will be Massachusetts’ second mass vaccination site, joining Gillette Stadium when it opens Feb. 1, Gov. Charlie Baker’s office announced Tuesday. The Baker administration also announced a new partnership with CVS and Walgreens pharmacies that will begin to vaccinate qualified residents. Also announced Tuesday were the expansion of UMass Amherst’s vaccination site and the “Hospital Depot Initiative,”...