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The Marine Corps says eight troops are presumed dead after their landing craft sank off the Southern California coast during a training exercise

A 19-year-old man is missing, according to the town’s police chief. There was a large police presence searching for the teen near Washington St. and Chapman St. around noon Thursday, according to Chief Ken Berkowitz. No foul play is suspected. No further information was immediately available.

Police are looking into an overnight stabbing in Roxbury after emergency responders couldn’t find the victim when they arrived on scene. Boston EMS said the victim was missing when they responded to reported stabbing on Warren Street in Roxbury’s Nubian Square around 11:30 p.m. They said a person walked into Boston Medical Center with stab wounds around the same...

Authorities continued to search for a suspect Thursday who they believe fled into a Medford, Massachusetts church and disappeared after attempting to rob a convenience store earlier in the day. Around 3:42 a.m., Medford police reported activity in the area of St. Clement Church along the Somerville line at the corner of Boston Avenue and Harvard Street. Detectives had been…

A manhunt continues for the gunman who fired a shot inside a car and wounded a woman in Hudson, Massachusetts.

Police in Ayer, Massachusetts are searching for a suspicious man after a child was offered money to get into a vehicle on Monday. Authorities said the disturbing encounter happened in the area of 55 Littleton Rd. around 3:30 p.m.

Police in Massachusetts are searching for several people after a man was seriously injured in a fight at Salem State University following a Halloween party. Authorities said the fight happened at about 1 a.m. Friday in the university’s Harrington Building parking lot. The victim, who was not identified, suffered serious injuries, according to police.

Google is paying more attention to the small words in your searches. Want to figure out how to park on a hill with no curb? Google now takes that “no” into account, and shows top results that include parking instructions without curbs. The company is rolling out the change to English language searches in the U.S. starting this week. Google...

Massachusetts State Police in Plymouth responded to a report of two people shooting at an apartment complex.

A 77-year-old woman who’d been missing for about two days from Worcester, Massachusetts, was found safe after police had asked for the public’s help in locating her. Luz Febres, 77, had last been seen at her Elizabeth Street home on Sunday, police. She is known to wander around Main and Queen streets.

Police are urging a New Bedford, Massachusetts man to come forward after he allegedly raped a 19-year-old student at a school for students with disabilities.

The body of a 53-year-old Cambridge man who was last seen in Walden Pond last week has been recovered, according to Massachusetts State Police. Authorities spent four days scouring the site in search of the missing man, who had not been seen since visiting the Concord tourist spot.

After a two-day search by local and state police for a possible missing swimmer in a Cape Cod lake, no victim was found, authorities said Wednesday. Crews began searching Scargo Lake in Dennis Tuesday after a report of a possible man in distress just before 4 p.m., Yarmouth fire officials confirmed.

The Massachusetts Port Authority has named a new leader. Massport announced Thursday that its next CEO will be Lisa Wieland, an internal candidate who has been with the organization since 2006.

Two Massachusetts men wanted in connection with a fatal shooting in Malden back in March have been taken into custody in California, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s office. Authorities said Yahia Mastouri, 18, and Josue Espada, 20, both of Malden, were located and arrested May 11 in Los Angeles. A rendition hearing was scheduled for Tuesday.

A Boston man is being held without bail after police say he broke into his 19-year-old girlfriend’s Woburn home, assaulted her and fired a gun while her newborn baby, mother and grandmother were inside. Andrew Neal, 43, of Hyde Park, was arraigned Friday in Woburn District Court on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon, discharging a weapon within 500...

The search is on for a vandal who defaced a World War II memorial with what is believed to be oil over the weekend in South Boston. State police received a call of the vandalism at about 11:30 a.m. on Monday and found an unknown substance splashed onto the memorial stones. Officials believe oil may have been poured over the...

The search is on for a vandal who defaced a World War II memorial with what is believed to be oil over the weekend in South Boston. State police received a call of the vandalism at about 11:30 a.m. on Monday and found an unknown substance splashed onto the memorial stones. Officials believe oil may have been poured over the...

Police are investigating a fatal shooting in Malden, Massachusetts. Authorities received a call around 6:18 p.m. Saturday for a report of a shooting in the area of Eastern Avenue and Bryant Street. The victim is Jeury Batista, 23, of Salem, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office.

Boston police have released the name of the person of interest in the case of a missing 23-year-old Boston woman. Louis D. Coleman is suspected of kidnapping 23-year-old Jassy Correia. She was last seen over the weekend following an outing with her boyfriend and friends at Venu Nightclub in the city’s Theater District.