Massachusetts

Belmont police are searching for 15-year-old Nya Brown Saturday, according to Belmont Police Chief James MacIsaac. The teen was last seen on Sunday at 6 p.m. She is 5’7″ and 150 pounds, police said. It is unknown what Brown was wearing when she went missing. She left her cell phone and credit card at home when she went missing, according…

Nearly 40 supermarkets across Massachusetts are partnering with the state to deliver COVID-19 vaccine at their pharmacies starting next week. Wegmans is one of the many supermarkets participating in the new vaccine rollout effort. The supermarket chain will also be working with officials in New York and Pennsylvania to administer vaccines. The state will also partner will grocery chains Big…

A man was seriously injured Saturday morning after intentionally entering the right of way as an Orange Line MBTA subway car approached, according to Transit Police Department Superintendent Richard Sullivan. The MBTA reported a person trapped under a train in a tweet shortly before 10 a.m. Tech rescue companies from the Boston Fire Department safely extricated the man around 9:50…

Former House Speaker Robert DeLeo has officially joined Northeastern University as a fellow and will both teach and mentor students at his alma mater, according to his lawyer. DeLeo, who last month ended a 30-year career on Beacon Hill as the longest serving speaker in state history, has agreed to become a “University Fellow for Public Life” at Northeastern, his…

The 182nd Infantry Regiment of the National Guard is expected to return to Melrose, Massachusetts, on Saturday after their deployment to Washington, D.C., according to Melrose Mayor Paul Brodeur. They are expected to arrive around 4:30 p.m., according to a tweet by Brodeur. The mayor did not cite reports of National Guard members sleeping in unheated parking garages as...

The spoilage of nearly 2,000 COVID-19 vaccines at the VA Medical Center in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood sparked a reaction from people in the city. Anna Nagurney, a professor of operations management at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is an expert in supply chains, including vaccine rollouts. She says the loss of 1,900 vaccine…

Troops are expected to arrive in Melrose, Mass., around 4:30 p.m. Melrosians are encouraged to welcome home the troops while remaining socially distanced, according to the mayor

The announcement comes just one day after 2,000 COVID vaccines spoiled at the VA Medical Center in Jamaica Plain. State officials are working to ramp up the vaccine rollout.

People in Boston responded to the loss of nearly 2,000 COVID-19 vaccines at the VA Medical Center in Jamaica Plain.

Thousands of business owners in Massachusetts could get a reprieve from surprise tax bills attached to their emergency coronavirus relief. As the NBC10 Boston Investigators first reported, the state of Massachusetts will assess a 5% tax on money that many business owners received last year through the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program. At Signarama in Braintree, Massachusetts, for example, a…

Massachusetts firefighters broke out some heavy equipment Friday to save a dog that had fallen through the ice in a Shrewsbury pond: their hovercraft. The Shrewsbury Fire Department shared a photo of the rescue, in which a firefighter waded out into the water from the vehicle to help get the dog, named Rocky, to safety from the middle of Flint…

A dog was pulled to safety from a frozen pond in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, thanks to firefighters’ hovercraft.

A lone trumpeter serenaded a couple in their driveway in Salem, Massachusetts, to help them forget about the challenging times.

There are efforts on Beacon Hill to remove the hefty tax bill some businesses are facing after receiving forgivable loans to stay afloat amid the coronavirus pandemic.

More than 300 Massachusetts schools and districts plan to start pooled coronavirus testing in February, in an effort to get students back in classrooms.

Investigators are looking for a missing woman after pulling her vehicle from a river in Lowell, Massachusetts. Kim Kelly-Oberhauser was last seen in Lowell around 10:45 p.m. Monday. Police said she was driving a black 2016 Range Rover. Friday, a Range Rover was recovered from the Merrimack River near Regatta Field, and authorities confirmed it was Kelly-Oberhauser’s. The efforts to…

Massachusetts reported 4,935 new confirmed coronavirus cases and an additional 80 deaths on Friday. There have now been 467,845 confirmed cases and 13,702 deaths, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Another 285 deaths are considered probably linked to COVID-19. The percentage of coronavirus tests coming back positive, on average, decreased to 5.51% from 5.57% the previous day, the…

Mayor Marty Walsh says Boston will allow some businesses to stay open past the 9:30 curfew starting next week, but the city will remain in phase 2, step 2.

A Massachusetts circus coach was arrested Thursday on charges he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old former student multiple times in the summer of 2020, authorities said. Whitman native Steven Santos, 43, ran Simply Circus in Newton, Plymouth County prosecutors said in a statement Friday. Police spent months investigating whether he’d assaulted the former student. Santos was arrested Thursday at a residence…

The Massachusetts stay-at-home advisory and an early closing order for businesses will expire next week as health officials see encouraging trends in the state’s COVID-19 data. An order that requires all businesses close by 9:30 p.m. concludes Monday, but businesses still won’t be able to exceed 25% capacity. That restriction will stay in place for at least another two...