Holliston

The Cannabis Control Commission will offer the executive director position to another person, commissioners said in a Wednesday meeting, after its first choice turned down the job.

A man convicted of killing a Holliston police officer 43 years ago has been released on parole, the Massachusetts town’s police chief said Wednesday. Rolando Jimenez fatally shot Holliston Police Officer John Johnson on Aug. 13, 1981. He was found guilty of second-degree murder at a trial in Middlesex Superior Court in February of 1982. Jimenez was granted parole last…

A crash in Holliston, Massachusetts, sent a car down an embankment and three people to the hospital. Police in Holliston say the two-vehicle crash happened Wednesday night on Washington Street. One vehicle went through a stop sign, hitting another vehicle and forcing it off the road, according to police. The second vehicle went down an embankment. Police did not know…

A person was flown from Holliston High School to a hospital by a medical helicopter Monday for what administrators at the Massachusetts school described as a medical emergency. It wasn’t immediately clear what type of medical emergency took place or if a student was involved. The person who was flown to the hospital was “receiving the proper care needed...

A group of students who took part in the One Chip Challenge during their lunch at a Holliston, Massachusetts, middle school on Monday were left in “physical distress,” according to letters sent home from school officials. It’s the same social media challenge that’s part of the investigation into the death of a Worcester teenager earlier this month. The maker...