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Children who were given pepper chewing gum during recess at an elementary school in Orange, Massachusetts, were taken to the hospital Tuesday, officials said. One student at Dexter Park School had bought the gum online and offered it to other students during recess, according to a statement from the superintendent of schools in Orange and local police and fire rescue…

The National Weather Service in Boston confirmed that Thursday’s severe weather produced a microburst in central Massachusetts. The weather service said it surveyed damage Thursday in Warwick, Orange, Athol and the northern part of Salem. They concluded that a microburst with wind speeds estimated at 90 mph occurred in Warwick. A microburst is a particularly strong downrush of winds that…

A skydiver was seriously injured when they made a “hard landing” on the roof of paper warehouse in Orange, Massachusetts, on Sunday evening, officials said. The skydiver, from Jumptown Skydiving, had both their main and reserve parachutes become entangled during the jump, causing the person to crash-land on top of the Seaman Paper building in the Orange industrial park, Orange…

After a massive fire destroyed a total of four buildings a week ago in Orange, Massachusetts, some who live in town have been left with debris on their property. Since some of that debris is considered contaminated and may contain asbestos, which is known to cause cancer, town officials issued instructions for residents on how to properly dispose of it....

With the end of the fiscal year in sight, state Rep. Susannah Whipps and her counterpart in the Senate, Sen. Joanne Comerford, are pushing to get state funding for the town.

A small town was left with a pile of asbestos-infused rubble and a roughly $4 million bill to clean it up when an intense blaze destroyed a vacant mill building in Orange, Massachusetts, this weekend. The town was already trying to address the asbestos in the long-abandoned building, but after three kids allegedly set it on fire Saturday, officials are…

A fire at an abandoned mill in Orange, Massachusetts, on Saturday, June 4, 2022, left a huge pile of asbestos-contaminated debris that could cost the town around $4 million to clean up.

Multiple vacant buildings were engulfed in flames during the fire, but no residents were displaced as a result.

Three kids are facing arson charges in connection with a blaze that engulfed multiple vacant buildings in Orange, Massachusetts on Saturday.

Firefighters from more than 20 area departments responded to a blaze which engulfed multiple vacant buildings in Orange, Massachusetts on Saturday. Orange Fire Chief James Young said that the fire was first reported around 11:45 a.m. at a vacant mill building on West River Street, which proceeded to spread to four other vacant buildings in the neighborhood. Two civilians were…

A 42-year-old woman was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years to life in prison for dropping her 7-month-old son to his death from a Children’s Hospital of Orange County parking structure a decade ago.