Two people are hospitalized in serious condition after being rescued from a 4-alarm fire in Reading, Massachusetts, early Monday morning.  Fire officials said crews responded to the fire in an apartment building at High Street and Washington Street around 3:30 a.m. “They started banging on the doors somewhere around 3, maybe a little after,” resident Ron Steenbruggen said. “Fire was…

Massachusetts opened some polling stations for early voting, Monday, ahead of presidential primaries to be held next week. Massachusetts is one of many states holding presidential primaries on March 3, also known as Super Tuesday.  Early votes can be cast in at least one location in cities or towns across Massachusetts during regular business hours of local election officials. Cities…

Stockbridge, Massachusetts has been named the most charming small town in America by a travel website. Big Seven Travel says Stockbridge “looks like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting.” The town is known for Rockwell’s portrayal of the city during Christmas with its historic square, inns, local cafes and preserved homes.  In second place is Woodstock, Vermont. The...

A woman who was asleep with her 11-month-old baby on Saturday when a fire broke out at their home in Ayer, Massachusetts, says they would not be alive if it weren’t for their neighbors. Shannon Holleran and her 11-month-old baby girl, Madeline, were trapped in their Bligh Street home on Saturday afternoon as it was engulfed in flames.  Both...

For the first time, the Boston Business Journal is ranking the state’s largest women-owned businesses as a standalone list. Previously, the ranking of companies by revenue had been a combined list of minority- and women-owned businesses in Massachusetts. But this year, each group of businesses — which make major contributions to the Bay State’s economy — have an opportunity to…

Residents in Plymouth, Massachusetts, are heartbroken after discovering Sunday that the town’s 9/11 memorial was vandalized, just days after Plymouth Rock was vandalized in an apparent graffiti spree. The memorial in Plymouth was built to remember the victims, and Richard Quintal, who led the campaign to erect the memorial, says it was the first memorial in the nation to list…

Shannon Holleran describes being trapped in her Bligh Street home in Ayer on Saturday afternoon as it was engulfed in flames, and how she went to the porch and threw her 11-month-old baby Madeline to one of her neighbors.

Residents in Plymouth, Massachusetts, are heartbroken after discovering Sunday that the town’s 9/11 memorial was vandalized, just days after Plymouth Rock was vandalized in an apparent graffiti spree.

NBC10 Boston’s Mike Manzoni rode along with Wakefield Police Detective Jack Ryan as he patrolled the streets, searching for drivers illegally using their phones behind the wheel.

A mom and her baby were rescued Saturday from a burning home in Ayer, Massachusetts, thanks to their neighbors. The Ayer Fire Department responded to a call at 5:19 p.m. for a reported fire at 22 Bligh Street. But it was two friends who saw their neighbor’s home burning and dashed over to make a daring rescue. “We were sitting…

It’s never easy to kick old habits, but on Sunday, drivers in Massachusetts will have no choice but to put down their phones while they’re behind the wheel.

A mom and her baby were rescued Saturday from a burning home in Ayer, Massachusetts, thanks to their neighbors.

A laundromat employee was injured Saturday morning when she was struck by a car that smashed through the store’s front window in Plainville, Massachusetts. Police say an 85-year-old woman was driving when she lost control of her car, crashing into the front window of the Bubble King, a car wash, laundromat, and dry cleaner. The elderly woman accelerated instead...

Plainville police say an 85-year-old woman accelerated instead of breaking as she pulled into a parking space in front of the dry cleaner.

The law, which was signed by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker in November and brings Massachusetts in line with every other New England state, takes effect Sunday.

The shooting occurred on Washington Street in Dorchester on Saturday night.

An arrest has been made in last month’s deadly shooting of a public works employee in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Marcos A. Ruiz, 52, of Methuen, was performing road repairs on Andover Street in Lawrence when he was shot on the afternoon of Jan. 15. Police responded to a report of shots fired and found him suffering from a gunshot wound. He…

The Essex County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday that 20-year-old Ariel Toribio of Lawrence had been arrested and charged with murder.

The alleged masked red-handed bandit who authorities say robbed at least ten convenience store clerks at knifepoint appeared unmasked and in court Friday but he was still allowed to mostly hide his face. Thirty-four-year-old Ramfis Casado, of Lynn, is facing more than two dozen charges after a grand jury indicted him for the convenience store robberies, in which police say…