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A man was arrested Tuesday in connection with a deadly shooting earlier this month in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. Police say 38-year-old Aisha Shepard of Roxbury was killed and five other people were injured in the shooting at a party on Irma Street in the early morning hours of Aug. 9. Shepard was pronounced dead at the scene. Police found two…

The gunfire erupted at a party on Irma Street overnight.

One person has died and several other people were injured after a shooting in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood overnight.

A woman died and five other people were injured after a shooting at a party in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood shortly after midnight Monday. Boston police responded to 27 Irma Street around 12:30 a.m., when gunshot detection technology was activated. Officers found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound when they arrived. She was pronounced dead on scene. Police have not…

By this time next week, Tom Parker expects to be a certified EMT. But his training came in handy earlier this week when he was playing hockey and a referee dropped to the ice. When the man collapsed at the Boston Sports Performance Center in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Parker skated into action. “I got to him. He was lying on his…

A hockey game was underway when a ref collapsed on the ice; the quick thinking of a player may have saved his life.

A bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire would recognize the right for firefighters and emergency medical services personnel to join a union and bargain for fair working conditions. Many states, including New Hampshire, already have collective bargaining protections for emergency personnel, but federal law does not protect these workers. In 16 states, public safety employees cannot…

A manhunt is underway for a former sheriff’s deputy wanted in the fatal shooting of three people in Austin, Texas.

Two victims were rushed to the hospital and two men were arrested after a double shooting in Worcester early Wednesday morning, according to authorities. Multiple officers headed to Buffum and Coes streets around 2:30 a.m. after they received a ShotSpotter activation in the area. Police heard gunshots coming from inside a home on Coes Street and saw two people run…

There is growing frustration from firefighters and EMTs in Massachusetts with what they’re calling a lack of a vaccine plan from the state. Tom Henderson is the EMT director with the Professional Firefighters of Massachusetts, which represents thousands of firefighters and EMTs in Massachusetts. “The EMS and fire community are getting frustrated and raising their voices on this,” he...

As coronavirus cases rise across the state, more than 100 firefighters have tested positive in the last week, meaning hundreds more are now quarantining.

For the first time in the city’s history, Mayor de Blasio announced Tuesday that the new mental health professionals and crisis workers will be the dispatched through 911, instead of the NYPD, to respond to mental health emergencies in two high-need communities — calling the pilot program a “major innovation.”

Two workers were hospitalized Friday morning after authorities said a small crane tipped over and trapped them at a site in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Two workers were injured Friday morning when a small lift crane tipped over and trapped them, police said. Cambridge police said the incident took place just after 10 a.m. in the area of 258 Hampshire Street on the Somerville line. The workers were taken to a local hospital. The extent of their injuries was not immediately clear. Images from the…

Sarah Nicole Henderson, the East Texas woman accused of fatally shooting her two daughters in November 2017, struck a plea deal Wednesday where she’ll avoid the death penalty and spend life behind bars.

The woman accused of stabbing an EMT in Boston on Wednesday is also under investigation for bomb threats called in to at least two airports the day before the attack, the NBC10 Boston Investigators have learned. Boston police had traveled to the home of 31-year-old Julie Tejeda in East Boston on Tuesday morning after being contacted by authorities in Washington,...

The woman accused of assaulting two emergency medical technicians in downtown Boston earlier this week, stabbing one of them, will undergo psychiatric evaluation after lawyers expressed concern about her mental health. Julie Tejeda, 31, of East Boston, had been scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on charges of assault with intent to murder and other offenses for the attack. Tejeda allegedly...

Massachusetts State Police are seeking a driver who struck and killed a pedestrian in West Boylston overnight. State police said they began responding to several reports of a pedestrian in the road on Route 190 northbound in West Boylston around 2:20 a.m. Sunday. While troopers were responding, another caller reported the pedestrian had been struck.

Massachusetts State Troopers have identified and arrested a man in connection with a sexual assault near the Palmer-Brimfield line. Police say Leemichael Collins, 25, of Palmer was arrested and is expected to be arraigned in Palmer District Court on Wednesday.