Melrose

A 14-year-old boy is recovering from a serious leg injury he suffered Tuesday night in Melrose, Massachusetts. The boy was impaled by spikes on a fence, according to police, who responded around 9:30 p.m. to Winthrop Elementary School. He had tried to jump the fence to help an older woman after she fell down on the sidewalk. The victim may…

There was a three-hour wait to get tested for coronavirus at Melrose High School Friday, prompting officials to offer more testing Saturday.

Free coronavirus testing was available Friday at a pop-up site in Malden, Massachusetts, and it was so busy that it will be available again Saturday. Testing was offered at Melrose Middle-High School Friday, and there was a three-hour wait. The site will reopen Saturday from 1-6 p.m. Melrose Mayor Paul Brodeur and the Department of Public Health decided to...

A free coronavirus testing site is opening in Melrose Friday as the city sees a spike in cases.

The mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts, apologized Wednesday after an electronic sign displayed the message, “The safety of all lives matter.” The sign was likely changed sometime overnight or early Wednesday morning, prompting complaints to city hall. “I immediately informed the chief to take that sign down,” said Melrose Mayor Paul Brodeur. “We are now in the process of finding out…

Looters broke windows and looted an Adidas store on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles on Saturday.

The coronavirus pandemic didn’t stop 102-year-old Agnes Carson from getting a big birthday party Thursday — it came to her in the form of a parade conducted by dozens of great-grandnieces and -nephews in Woburn, Massachusetts. Meanwhile, in nearby Melrose, a mother and daughter helped make the days a little brighter for their neighbors by dressing up in their inflatable…

Residents in Woburn, Massachusetts, didn’t let social distancing get in the way of celebrating a 102-year-old woman’s birthday on Thursday.

For the second year in a row, the St. John’s Prep Eagles are Massachusetts Division 1 Super Bowl champions.

An unusual trail of evidence helped solve a crime in Melrose.

In this edition of Restaurant Roundup, a closed cupcake spot and a gluten-free bakery is opening.

A local group of bakeries that first started out more than 25 years ago has apparently disappeared from the landscape.

A man fired a gun Friday night in a parking lot in Melrose, Massachusetts, police say. A drug deal turned violent outside Whole Foods on Main Street when two juveniles refused to pay and the seller was not happy about it, according to authorities.

A man is accused of firing shots near a busy Melrose shopping center.

A level 3 sex offender with a rap sheet is in trouble with the law again after being arrested over the weekend for allegedly watching a woman outside her apartment in Melrose, Massachusetts. A woman called police Saturday to tell them a man had allegedly been watching her for several days when she would leave her apartment to walk her dog.

More than a month after sewage started spewing from toilets in Melrose, Massachusetts, another town meeting was held Thursday night to hear from those people affected by the sewage backup in their Brazil Street homes. Julie Salvato is the woman who took the infamous video of raw sewage exploding out of her toilet in June. “These are tiny homes,” said...

Julie Salvato is the woman who took the infamous video of raw sewage exploding out of her toilet in June. She spoke Thursday night before the Melrose Board of Aldermen.

A fire at a barn in Stoneham, Massachusetts has left one horse dead and injured three firefighters.

Three homes in Melrose, Massachusetts, remain unlivable nearly a month after sewage started spewing from the toilets in June, the health inspector says. The Board of Alderman in Melrose is looking for an update from the mayor’s office Thursday night about what’s next, how the clean-up is coming, when residents will be allowed back in the three unlivable homes, who’s...