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An equipment mishap nearly cost the New England Patriots’ opponents their game on Sunday, and it might have if not for the timely intervention of the Massachusetts State Police. A load of equipment containing the gear of around 35 Kansas City Chiefs players accidentally ended up in Newark, New Jersey, instead of Foxboro, just hours before the team’s game against…

Newly-released surveillance footage shows the moment two construction vehicles collided in an Orange Line tunnel last month in an incident that left a worker injured and caused headaches for commuters. The video released this week by the MBTA shows one vehicle sitting on the tracks when another rams it from behind, pushing it forward. Sparks fly, and a person can...

Massachusetts public health officials are looking into allegations that workers at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology laboratory may have been exposed to radioactive materials.

Authorities ordered at least 50,000 residents to evacuate towns near a massive Northern California wildfire Saturday, and the state’s largest utility announced power shut-offs for an estimated 2.35 million people due to forecasts of severe winds and extreme fire danger. Two previous electricity shut-offs in recent weeks were carried out amid concern that gusty winds could disrupt or knock down...

A 65-year-old woman is now facing charges for an incident that all started with a broken tail light.

Equipment from the now-closed New England Confectionery Co., or Necco, is being sold off at an online auction. The Revere, Massachusetts plant abruptly shut down its factory on July 24, leaving its 230 workers stunned and unemployed. They were told to pick up their final paychecks that same Friday.

A Sichuan Airlines co-pilot was nearly sucked out of his plane’s cockpit when the jet’s windshield shattered at 30,000 feet Monday, about an hour into a flight from southwestern China to Tibet, NBC News reported. Captain Liu Chuanjian told Chengdu Business News that he struggled to maintain control of the plane full of 119 passengers while his co-pilot had “half...

More than a week after Harvey poured more than 4 feet of rain on Houston America’s fourth-biggest city is striving to reopen for business.

The collapse of an underground tunnel containing radioactive waste that forced workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to shelter in place is the latest incident to raise safety concerns at the sprawling site that made plutonium for nuclear bombs for decades after World War II. Officials detected no release of radiation Tuesday and no workers were injured, said Randy Bradbury,...

Two firefighters, Lt. Justin Brigham and Scott Davis, were just 30 seconds away from a deadly flashover as they battled a fire in Oxford, Massachusetts — and thanks to the age of their equipment, no one heard their mayday calls.