Christmas Eve

She died on Christmas Eve after battling cancer since September.

Although our anticipated Christmas storm is bearing down, Christmas Eve Day is actually a great day for anything planned outside with increasing clouds but high temperatures around and over 50 degrees in Central and Southern New England by afternoon, 40s north, after a few early morning icy patches on Northern New England roads. Showers will expand east into Western New…

Tuesday: Clouds to fair sky. Highs around 40. Overnight Tuesday: Chilly wind, clear sky. Lows around 20, wind chill around 10. Wednesday: Mostly sunny, chilly morning breeze. Highs in the 30s.

Clouds breaking for sunshine in central and southern New England on Tuesday make for a slightly milder and certainly brighter day than recent days, while northern New England finds a disturbance aloft dragging a cold front southward from Canada at ground level, first touching off scattered snow showers in northern New England and then opening the door to a chilly…

Today: Clouds to fair sky. Highs around 40. Tuesday Night: Chilly wind, clear sky. Lows around 20, wind chill around 10. Wednesday: Mostly sunny, chilly AM breeze. Highs in the 30s.

Tonight: Wintry mix ends, patchy black ice and fog, low in the 20s and 30s.
Tomorrow: Fog lifts to mostly cloudy sky, high in the 30s.

Depending on which country they’re from, the kids may ask about Father Christmas, Papa Noel, Saint Nick or Santa Claus. But they all want to know one thing: where in the world the jolly old man and his sleigh full of gifts are on Christmas Eve.

The holiday season is fast approaching, and toys are already flying off the shelves. The toy industry is poised for growth this year as it faces weak comparisons with last year’s holiday season, which was the first without Toys R Us. The closing of the toy retailer hurt sales last year, because parents stocked up on toys at liquidation sales...

A quarantine was ordered for most marijuana vaping products in Massachusetts Tuesday, extending the state’s efforts to control vaping products amid a nationwide epidemic of lung injuries. Exempt from the quarantine are medical marijuana products designed specifically for devices for medical marijuana flower vaping, the state Cannabis Control Commission said.

A part of the Baker administration’s ban on vape-related products has been lifted Tuesday for medical marijuana users, as ordered by a Superior Court judge. Judge Douglas Wilkins ruled last week that the state cannot enforce the vaping ban on medical marijuana card holders because only the Cannabis Control Commission has the authority to regulate medical marijuana. Patients will be...

The Baker administration’s vape sales ban will be lifted for medical marijuana patients beginning at noon.

Massachusetts health officials say a third person has died from a vaping-related lung illness in the Bay State. The Department of Public Health announced Wednesday the third resident was a man in his 50s from Worcester County. Offiicals said the man reported vaping nicotine and THC, an ingredient sometimes found in marijuana.

A Massachusetts judge says the state’s ban on the sale of vaping products can’t be enforced on medical marijuana products. Suffolk Superior Court Judge Douglas Wilkins ruled Tuesday that marijuana card holders seeking to purchase marijuana vaping products should be exempt from the four-month ban.

A store in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, has been issued a cease and desist order by local health officials for selling vaping products in violation of the governor’s first-in-the-nation ban. The order was delivered to the owner of Lifestyle Vape on Tuesday, police said. The business could also face fines and other disciplinary action from the town.

Massachusetts health officials say a second state resident has died from a vaping-related lung illness. Marylou Sudders, secretary of Health and Human Services, told WGBH-FM on Wednesday that the second resident was a woman in her 40s from Middlesex County. The state previously said a woman in her 60s from Hampshire County died of a vaping-related illness.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration took steps Monday to maintain its retail ban on all vaping products. The Department of Public Health filed an emergency regulation with the secretary of state’s office to comply with a Superior Court judge’s ruling while keeping the first-in-the-nation ban on vaping products from lifting.

Gov. Charlie Baker’s ban on the retail sale of vaping products in Massachusetts was hanging in limbo Thursday after an appeals court judge denied the administration’s request to overthrow a lower court order that requires Baker to alter his ban and reissue it Monday.

According to an affidaivit, 30-year-old Saf Ahmad was arrested after firing an AK-47 during an altercation with an angry customer at the Kwick Pick convenience store in Lauderhill. His lawyer says it was self defense.

Worcester Police say they have someone in mind they want to question, 36-year-old Thomas Bergstrom.

The death of a Massachusetts man who police subdued with a Taser after he repeatedly stabbed a woman at a home in Cohasset was justified, according to the Norfolk County Distrist Attorney’s office. A report released by the district attorney Tuesday found the actions in taking 25-year-old Erich Stelzer into custody “was a justified and appropriate use of force under...