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The person who died after getting struck by a vehicle at a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus yard has been identified as a “dedicated and hardworking” employee who had worked for the agency for nearly two decades. Bernadin Etienne, 62, died at the hospital shortly after he was struck by a bus at facility in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood at about…

An MBTA bus driver was killed Monday morning in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood, the transportation agency announced.

An MBTA bus driver has died following an incident at a bus yard in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood Monday morning, the agency said. MBTA general manager Steve Poftak said that the employee died in a “terrible tragedy,” representing a “great loss within the MBTA family,” during a press conference Monday. The employee was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital and later...

This July, Jennifer Jones placed an order for more chicks — baby chickens that she and her daughter, Schuyler, planned to raise at their home in Falmouth, Maine. They have dozens of chickens that they sell and gather eggs from — they’d supplemented their flock in April with a similar order that came in with no problems — but when…

At least 4,800 chicks shipped to Maine farmers through the U.S. Postal Service have arrived dead in the recent weeks since rapid cuts hit the federal mail carrier’s operations, U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree said. The Portland Press Herald reported Wednesday that Pingree, a Maine Democrat, is raising the issue of the dead chicks and economic losses farms are now...

A coyote suspected in three attacks in New Hampshire was strangled by a man the animal attacked.

A Boston man accused of killing a 25-year-old man near the TD Garden over the weekend tried to steal a gold necklace from the victim before shooting him, prosecutors said Monday. Bryan Rice, 22, charged with murder in connection to the shooting, was ordered held without bail at an arraignment Monday. Anthony Baptista-Goncalves, 24, also of Boston, was charged with...

A man has died after being shot near TD Garden early Saturday morning, police said. Officers responded to 101 Canal Street just after 2 a.m. Saturday to find a man with gunshot wounds. The victim, Fouad Baghdad, was taken to a local hospital and later died, police said.

A 2-year-old girl died from bullets fired into her Kensington home Sunday and an 11-month-old boy is in “very, very, very critical condition” after he was shot Saturday night.

Police say a Rhode Island man killed a kitten belonging to his girlfriend’s mother then tried to blame it on a toddler. Matthew Johnson, of Smithfield, was released on $1,000 bond after a court appearance Monday on two counts of malicious injury to or killing of animals. He did not enter a plea. He was referred to the public defender’s...

Two people were killed in two separate crashes that happened just minutes apart on Interstate 95 in Attleboro, Massachusetts

Sheriff’s officials in Florida say an MS-13 gang member was killed after he shot a deputy in the face during a confrontation.

Actor Peter Mayhew, best known for portraying Chewbacca in the “Star Wars” franchise, has died at 74. Mayhew died at his Texas home on April 30.

A New Hampshire man with an intellectual disability who had been missing since last week has been found dead. Dover and state police said the body of 62-year-old Samuel Gray was located Thursday morning by a K9 team near the railroad tracks between the Spaulding Turnpike and Littleworth Road.

A person is dead after a major crash Wednesday evening in Watertown, Massachusetts. Police responded to a crash at the intersection of Pleasant Street and Bridge Street. They say a driver lost control, hitting one vehicle, then flipping to its side and hitting another car driving in the opposite direction before landing on its roof.

A person is dead after a major crash Wednesday evening in Watertown, Massachusetts. Police responded to a crash at the intersection of Pleasant Street and Bridge Street. They say a driver lost control, hitting one vehicle, then flipping to its side and hitting another car driving in the opposite direction before landing on its roof.

A law enforcement official says a second inmate under suspicion in Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger’s prison killing is a Massachusetts man convicted of conspiring to kill a teenager to keep her from talking to police.

A former reality television show star is facing charges of fraud and identity theft after allegedly stealing and using a debit card from a man she allegedly visited for a prostitution date, authorities say.

At least three teenagers died when a 15-year-old girl driving a stolen car crashed on a Long Island parkway, a violent rollover accident that launched the vehicle off the highway and into thick brush, state police said Friday.

Congo began an Ebola vaccination campaign Monday in a northwest provincial capital in a major effort to stem an outbreak that has already made its way from rural towns into a city of more than 1 million people. The campaign comes a day after the health ministry announced that a nurse has died from Ebola in Bikoro, the rural northwestern...