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Heavy rainfall flooded the streets of Lynn on Monday, forcing the fire department to rescue stranded drivers and block off several roads.

Katelyn Flint shares how drivers were rescued from flooded roads in Lynn after their cars stopped working

Public officials in Lynn, Massachusetts, approved $500,000 for a pilot program to create an unarmed crisis response team as part of the city’s annual budget last month. Dubbed the All Lynn Emergency Response Team, or ALERT, the program is intended to improve response to mental health emergencies by offering an alternative to traditional policing. Crisis-response teams provide a behavioral health…

A 23-year-old man has been arrested after a 15-year-old girl was shot in Lynn, Massachusetts on Friday night. Authorities say the incident occurred on North Common Terrace. Police say the shooting may have been accidental. The teen was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital and is expected to survive. The suspect, identified by police as Michael Tate, is facing multiple assault…

A judge ordered a man accused of killing his mother at their home in Lynn to undergo a mental evaluation. The man pleaded not guilty.

A man charged in connection with the death of his 80-year-old mother at their Lynn, Massachusetts, home pleaded not guilty on Monday. Officers said they found Katherine Paratore inside her Jenness Street home suffering from multiple injuries around 8 p.m. Friday. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Her son, Alfredo Paratore, 49, who was living with her, was later…

Alfredo Paratore, 49, was charged with murdering his mother, 80-year-old Katherine Paratore, on Friday night in a home they shared, according to the Essex District Attorney’s Office.

A Lynn man has been arrested in connection with the death of his mother at their Massachusetts home, authorities said Sunday. Investigators say they found 80-year-old Katherine Paratore dead inside the Jenness Street home she shared with her son around 8 p.m. Friday night. Authorities say Katherine Paratore suffered multiple injuries but did not elaborate on the nature of those…

Startling video shows two men barely escape as a pickup smashes into a boat in front of Top Shop Automotive and Marine on Eastern Avenue in Lynn, Massachusetts, on Monday. One of them is the owner, Ken Brassard, who said he’s never moved faster in his life. The truck first hits an SUV parked maybe 30 feet away, which may…

Dramatic video obtained by NBC10 Boston shows a pickup truck crash into a boat in Lynn, Massachusetts. The driver said he’d just gotten his second dose of a COVID vaccine.

A drive-by shooting left a person wounded in Lynn, Massachusetts, on Monday, police said. The person who was injured was inside a home on Chestnut Street near Story Avenue at the time of the shooting, according to Lynn police. They’ve been taken to a local hospital. No arrests have yet been made in the shooting, police said. They didn’t...

Update: Lynn Police reported a little after 9 p.m. Sunday that the missing person has been located. Authorities in Lynn are looking for help to find a missing woman, who was last seen Sunday morning in the Mall St. area. The woman, Santa Diaz Contreras, is described as wearing a black hooded jacket, a skirt and black shoes. Anyone with…

Seven police officers in Lynn, Massachusetts, are on administrative leave and under investigation over allegations of inappropriate conduct. The allegations involve potential drug abuse and use of racially insensitive language in a private text conversation between two officers, according to the Lynn Police Department. The department recently learned of the allegations from another law enforcement agency, according to a release…

Police officers in Lynn are under investigation for allegations involving drugs and the use of racial slurs.

The allegations involve potential drug abuse and use of inappropriate language in a private text conversation.

Several police officers in Lynn, Massachusetts are on administrative leave and under investigation over allegations of inappropriate conduct.

Victor White says he’s still traumatized by what happened to him on June 16, 2020, at the Lynn Police Department. “I think about it every day,” White said Thursday. “The video shows me complying with his orders, then him reaching for my neck/face area and then he starts wailing on me.” The video is from a security camera in a…

Security video from last summer appears to show a former Lynn Police officer violently attacking a man inside a jail cell.

The state of Massachusetts is short some 1,200 school bus drivers. The problem is so serious that Lynn Public Schools are no longer offering bus service. Transportation officials in Concord say hundreds of bus drivers across the state were laid off during the coronavirus pandemic and decided not to come back. In Concord, officials kept their school bus drivers on…

The state of Massachusetts is short some 1,200 school bus drivers.