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Hanson police are searching for the man they say tried luring children into his van on Saturday morning by offering toys.

Police in Hanson, Massachusetts, are searching for a man who allegedly approached children and tried to get them to get into his van over the weekend. According to police, a caller reported that his son and a friend, who are both under 12, were approached Saturday on Whitman Street by a suspicious man, who reportedly asked the kids if they…

Update as of Saturday, 5/14/2022: Police in Hanson, Massachusetts, now say a vehicle they thought was involved in a hit-and-run crash that injured a cyclist was not involved in that crash. Police released a photograph of a suspect vehicle, a midsize white crossover SUV, after a cyclist was injured in a crash on Maquan Street Friday. Investigators said they believed…

A Rhode Island man appeared in a Massachusetts court Monday to answer to charges of child rape. Police in Hanson said 23-year-old Jared Soltys, a Connecticut native who lives in Providence and attends Brown University, was arrested early Saturday morning after posting a video on social media recorded in the area of Pleasant Street. In court Monday, prosecutors explained that…

A Brown University student was arrested and charged with raping a child.

During an open house event this week at an elementary school in Hanson, Massachusetts, one parent made a horrifying discovery. A parent noticed racist graffiti on a light pole outside the Indian Head Elementary School on Tuesday, Whitman-Hanson Regional School District Superintendent Jeffrey Szymaniak and Hanson Police Chief Michael Miksch announced. The parent reported the disturbing finding to a police…

A father and his 19-year-old daughter were out late Friday night riding a motorcycle together when tragedy struck in Hanson, Massachusetts. James Ripley, 58, and Jenna Ripley, both of Halifax, died after the motorcycle they were on crashed into a pole on Route 58, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz announced. Hanson police received a 911 call around 9:30 p.m….

When the U.S. women’s national soccer team won in a penalty kick shootout, family and friends for two sisters on the team were cheering on back home in Massachusetts.

It was a thrilling end to a game that kept the crowd at a Whitman, Massachusetts bar on the edge of their seats.  As U.S. women’s soccer team was fighting to advance to the Olympic semifinals against the Netherlands, friends and family of Sam and Kristie Mewis — the Hanson sisters competing in Tokyo — cheered on every move....

Loved ones of Sam and Kristie Mewis, of Hansaon, gathered to watch Team USA take on the Netherlands.

Athletes often describe their team as their family. For two members of this year’s U.S. women’s national soccer team, that won’t be an exaggeration. Sam and Kristie Mewis, sisters from Hanson, Massachusetts, will be holding down the midfield for the U.S. in Tokyo this July, according to the roster the team released Wednesday. They will be the first sisters to...

The family of Maura Murray, a Massachusetts woman who disappeared after crashing her car in New Hampshire, is renewing its calls for a historical marker after someone cut down a tree that has long been adorned with a blue ribbon dedicated to her memory.

The family of a woman missing since 2004 is asking for a historical marker after a tree that has long served as a memorial to her was chopped down. Maura Murray of Hanson, Massachusetts, was 21 when she disappeared after crashing her car in Haverhill, New Hampshire, more than 17 years ago. Her family has been looking for answers ever…

On the 17th anniversary of the disappearance of Maura Murray, her family is still hopeful. “I’m hoping something shakes loose this year,” said her older sister, Julie. Julie’s and Maura’s brother, Kurtis, held a virtual candlelight vigil Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., the last time Maura was seen. “It’s kind of crazy to think it’s 17 years. I’ve spent more...

Maura Murray disappeared in 2004 after crashing her car in New Hampshire.

A 13-year-old horse named Libby got stuck in the mud Tuesday afternoon at the Burrage Reservation in Hanson, Massachusetts, and was unable to break free. “It’s like seeing your kid going through trauma,” said the horse’s owner, Gretchen Zwicker. “She’s traumatized, she’s a very sensitive horse.” Zwicker was out riding when Libby started acting up. “She was being naughty,”...

Crews freed a horse that was stuck in a mud pit in Hanson.

The Hanson Police Department said they found out what happened on Route 58 in Hanson, Massachusetts, when a child fell out of a moving SUV on Monday morning. After identifying both the child and the driver, authorities said that the scene recorded by the surveillance video at Liberty Street was determined as an accident. Police said the child was unharmed…

A child came tumbling out of an SUV one Route 58 in Hanson, Massachusetts, in an incident caught on video.

An unbelievable scene played out on Route 58 in Hanson, Massachusetts, Monday morning: a child seen on surveillance video falling out of a moving SUV. Police are now looking to identify the driver to make sure the boy or girl is doing well and to find out how it happened. “Was it inadvertently they didn’t have the child safety locks…