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Crews worked Wednesday night to remove a crane that crashed onto the roof of a home while people were inside.

A construction crane fell tipped over and fell onto a home in Franklin, Massachusetts, on Wednesday. Images from the scene showed the tilting crane leaning on the house on Michelle’s Way, its beam resting on the roof. “Fear. Terror. Terror like it was the end of the world. Like your house was on fire and you needed to get...

Autopsies determined Nicole Hughes, 35, and her 18-month-old daughter Ariella Bell died of multiple gunshot wounds; their deaths were ruled homicides. Jamie Bell’s death was ruled a suicide.

A man fatally shot a woman, their 18-month-old daughter, and wounded another child before he was found dead hours later by suicide on the bank of the Merrimack River, autopsies confirmed Sunday, according to the New Hampshire attorney general’s office. Autopsies completed on 35-year-old Nicole Hughes and her toddler daughter Ariella Bell determined that both died of multiple gunshot...

A person of interest in an investigation into two suspicious deaths at a home in Franklin, New Hampshire on Saturday, has been found dead.

A person of interest in an investigation into two suspicious deaths at a home in Franklin, New Hampshire on Saturday, has been found dead, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office. The AG’s office confirmed earlier in the day that investigators were looking for Jamie Bell, 42, in connection with the death investigation on Elkins Street. Officials said...

Composting is on the menu at two schools in Franklin, Massachusetts.

No one has been charged or cited as so far in the investigation, police said, but state and local detectives were continuing to investigate what happened.

A person died after being hit by a truck in Franklin, Massachusetts, Friday morning, police said.

As New England inches toward winter, many communities are still having a hard getting fully staffed up for the real winter storms.

As New England inches toward winter, many communities are still having a hard getting fully staffed up for the real winter storms.

The overnight wintry storm turned out to perhaps be more of a reminder that winter is coming, rather than a true first test for snow plows. Like many other places in Massachusetts, snow was sticking on the grass in Fitchburg, but not so much on sidewalks or roads. Plows weren’t really needed after all. The salt and sand trucks...

As snow begins to fall in parts of New England, some towns are offering bonuses to incentivize people to plow.

Commuter trains were running up to an hour late on the MBTA Fairmount, Franklin and Foxboro lines Thursday afternoon after an incident at Readville Station in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood, the transit agency said. It wasn’t immediately clear what kind of incident prompted the delays, which appeared to involve Fairmount Line Train 929, headed outbound. It was stopped before...

A man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of destroying property in a case in which police in several Massachusetts communities warned the public about someone disabling young women’s vehicles and offering them rides home. Alexander Yee was arrested at his home in Winchendon on a warrant charging him with destruction of property worth more than $1,200 in Milford, Winchendon police…

Authorities in Milford, Holliston, Franklin and Bellingham are warning the public about a man who has been disabling young women’s vehicles and then offering them rides home.

Police in multiple Massachusetts communities are warning the public that a man has been disabling young women’s vehicles and offering them rides home. The Milford Police Department said in a Facebook post Saturday that a man in his late 30s has been flattening tires in the area and filling gas tanks with water. He is reported to have been...

School officials in Franklin, Massachusetts, are investigating after a report that fans hurled racist, antisemitic and homophobic slurs at high school athletes Thursday. In a letter addressed to the Franklin High School community Friday, Principal Joshua Hanna said the incident occurred a day earlier at a baseball game against Sharon High School. He said spectators watching from left field used…