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The former Boston high school dean and anti-violence advocate convicted of shooting and nearly killing a student has been sentenced to up to 26 years in prison.

A Massachusetts firefighter whose life was saved by a lieutenant who gave his own life has been released from the hospital, authorities said Wednesday. Worcester Fire Lt. Jason Menard died battling a blaze on Pleasant Street on Nov. 13. Firefighter Chris Pace was seriously injured and was hospitalized for the following two weeks.

Amtrak Train 86 rolled into Boston’s South Station three hours behind schedule the day before Thanksgiving. The train started in Richmond, Virginia, early Wednesday morning. There were no major problems until Connecticut, and that’s when things started to bog down.

There were serious delays for travelers on an Amtrak train the day before Thanksgiving.

Tis the season to be thankful and one Massachusetts woman is especially grateful this holiday season after the home she shared with her late husband was reportedly saved from foreclosure thanks to generous donations made online. Altruistic strangers online donated more than $125,000 to help Taunton resident Rosemary Heath keep her home, according to the Boston Herald. She lost her...

A watch party applauded when Worcester native Ricky Duran made the top 10.

Tuesday was elimination night on NBC’s “The Voice,” but one hometown hero made it on to the top 10 — Ricky Duran of Worcester, Massachusetts. Friends, family and fans gathered at Valentino’s in Worcester for their weekly watch party. It’s the bar where Duran grew up playing, and now, they’re watching him on the big screen.

A man was hit and killed by a vehicle Tuesday evening in Worcester, Massachusetts. The victim, a 66-year-old man, was on Park Avenue when he was hit shortly before 5 p.m.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of killing two doctors in their South Boston penthouse returned to the scene of the murders on Tuesday and learned new details from the officer who discovered their bodies. Bampimum Teixeira of Chelsea, Massachusetts, is on trial in connection to the May 5, 2017 homicides of Dr. Lina Bolanos and Dr....

Jurors went to the South Boston penthouse where two doctors were murdered.

A Taunton woman whose husband died saving others is fighting to save the home they shared together.

A woman whose husband was stabbed to death at a Massachusetts mall is fighting to keep her home and generous strangers online who have donated to her cause are helping her in that fight. George Heath was killed in 2016 in the Silver City Galleria in Taunton while trying to protect his wife, Rosemary, and a pregnant waitress.

Celtics point guard Kemba Walker was taken off the court on a stretcher after suffering an injury. Walker was hurt in a collision with teammate Semi Ojeleye late in the second quarter against the Nuggets in Denver. The team announced on Twitter that Walker had been diagnosed with concussion-like symptoms. He is being taken to a hospital to be evaluated,...

Five people were transported Friday night after a chemical spill in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Fire Marshal’s Office confirmed a Tier 1 hazmat situation after trichloroethylene spilled at the Hutchinson Aerospace and Industry building on South Street.

You could call it the giving tree, but all it was giving a Boston woman was a headache, leaving her car a mess for years. And to make matters worse, it wasn’t even her tree, so she reached out to Consumer Investigative Reporter Leslie Gaydos for help. Jo-Ann Alleyne was tired of cleaning up after a large tree on the...

A Roxbury woman was tired of cleaning up after a large tree next to her home, so she reached out to NBC10 Boston Responds.

With the dangers surrounding cleaning chemicals at the forefront, researchers are working to make products safer.

In a lab in Lowell, Massachusetts, there is a belief in a better way to clean without using potentially dangerous chemicals. “There is still a perception that the stronger it smells, the better it works, the stronger the bleach, the more it will kill the germs,” Liz Harriman, deputy director of UMass Lowell’s Toxics Use Reduction Institute, said Thursday.

Residents of Brookline, Massachusetts, have voted to shorten the hours of a pot shop. The town voted at a Thursday meeting on whether New England Treatment Access, the Boston area’s first recreational marijuana dispensary, should be required to close two hours earlier. Residents also took up the issue of whether customers should be required to make appointments.

Voters in Brookline opted to limit the hours of operation for the town’s recreational pot shop, but to continue to allow walk-in sales.