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As the National Football League season is set to kick off, new research from Harvard University is showing more evidence of the long-term dangers of the game. Certain positions on the field, and the length of a player’s career, may mean greater risk to the brain, according to a study published Friday in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Though Massachusetts legalized recreational marijuana, the drug is still considered a controlled substance by the federal government and is illegal under federal law. “If you’re on the water, then you enter our jurisdiction,” said a crew member on a Coast Guard patrol checking recreational boats on the water

There’s so much summer fun happening this week it was hard to gather all the great events in one place. From Jimmy Buffet to movie nights, festivals and more, check out our picks for the week ahead:

The 43rd annual Yankee Engine-uity Show featuring antique engines and tractors is scheduled for this weekend in Orange.

The 43rd annual Yankee Engine-uity Show featuring antique engines and tractors is scheduled for this weekend in Orange.

U.S. hiring stumbled in May as employers added just 75,000 jobs, a sign that businesses have become more cautious in the face of weaker global growth, widening trade conflicts and perhaps some difficulty finding enough workers. Last month’s modest job gain followed a much healthier increase of 224,000 in April. The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate remained...

U.S. employers added a robust 263,000 jobs in April, suggesting that businesses have shrugged off earlier concerns that the economy might slow this year and now anticipate strong customer demand. The unemployment rate fell to a five-decade low of 3.6% from 3.8%, though that drop reflected a rise in the number of people who stopped looking for work. Average hourly...

As more and more communities in New England and across the country debate bans on single-use plastic bags, lawmakers in Vermont are considering nixing them state-wide. A key panel of the Vermont Senate took testimony Wednesday on a proposal that could change the way people shop or get take-out meals across Vermont. The bill would ban single-use plastic carryout bags,...

As more and more communities in New England and across the country debate bans on single-use plastic bags, lawmakers in Vermont are considering nixing them state-wide. A key panel of the Vermont Senate took testimony Wednesday on a proposal that could change the way people shop or get take-out meals across Vermont. The bill would ban single-use plastic carryout bags,...

The pace of hiring in the United States fell last month to its lowest point in nearly a year and a half, a surprise drop likely reflecting harsh weather and other temporary factors that led most economists to see the slowdown as a temporary blip. Employers added just 20,000 jobs, down from a blockbuster 311,000 in January. Even with February’s...

An electrical malfunction Sunday left approximately 160 skiers and snowboarders stuck on a chairlift at a busy Vermont resort — for a few hours, in cold temperatures.

Police in Massachusetts have released the name of the 7-year-old boy struck and killed by a piece of heavy equipment last weekend. Damien Larsen, a second-grade student in Brewster, died when he was struck by skid-steer loader while at his grandfather’s Harwich home on Saturday.

A child has died after being struck by machinery on Cape Cod. According to the Harwich Fire Department, they responded to a call for a child struck at 3:45 p.m. Saturday.

It sounds like a rule at a college dorm — “Quiet hours from 9 p.m. until 7 a.m.” — but it’s actually a noise ordinance proposal being considered in a small New Hampshire town. You can barely hear the birds chirping in Newington. Even the playgrounds are quiet, and the only time traffic slowed down was to let a family...

A worker has died after he got stuck in a piece of machinery used to cut metal at a Sharon, Massachusetts, business on Thursday morning.

A jury has awarded a Massachusetts man and his family $8.25 million in a lawsuit filed after a piece of machinery used to seal cracks in asphalt fell and caused him permanent injuries.

A three-alarm fire reportedly destroyed an auto body shop in Greenland, New Hampshire on Saturday.

Germany’s highest court said Friday it has thrown out a bid by a 96-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard for a reprieve on serving his sentence as an accessory to murder. Oskar Groening was convicted in July 2015 of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews and sentenced to four years in prison. A federal court rejected his...

The lightweight engineered wood used in large apartment and commercial buildings also appears in single family homes, builders say.

The White House took a firm stance on Tuesday in outlining why an immigration program created by President Barack Obama needs to be eliminated. President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions described the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program as an unconstitutional action that contributed to a surge in immigration and gang violence in recent years. They also said...