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Frankie was the first treated under Nero’s Law, which allows police dogs and other working animals to be treated or transported by emergency medical personnel provided there is not a human in need they must attend to.

A Massachusetts man who shot himself after an hourslong standoff with police that shut down Interstate 495 in Andover on Tuesday night has died, state police say. The suspect, identified by police as Anthony Miele, 49, of Quincy, killed himself while state police negotiators were attempting to get him to surrender. He was taken to an area hospital, where he…

A person with a gun kept police in a standoff that shut down Interstate 495 in Andover for hours Tuesday evening, Massachusetts State Police said.

Massachusetts State Police confirm they have patrol and tactical units at the scene and described the situation as “dynamic”

A person with a gun kept police in a standoff that shut down Interstate 495 in Andover for hours Tuesday evening, Massachusetts State Police said. The person, who has not been identified, appeared to have shot himself and was rushed to Lawrence General Hospital, police said, nearly two hours after the standoff began. Aerial footage of the scene showed police…

A man surrendered to police Thursday morning after barricading himself inside a home with a woman and a gun for more than 15 hours in North Providence, Rhode Island. Police responded around 3 p.m. Wednesday to reports of a gunshot at the home. The standoff with police continued into Thursday morning. The North Providence Police Department told NBC affiliate WJAR…

Police arrested a man on a murder charge after he allegedly shot a woman to death and took part in an hourslong standoff with police.

A woman was shot to death Tuesday at her house in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and a man has been arrested on a murder charge. Police responded around 10:45 a.m. to a 911 call at a home on Old Main Road, the Cape & Islands District Attorney’s Office said. The caller reported that a person had been shot. Officers arrived to find…

After three officers were shot in Dorchester, community leaders came together to offer support.

While investigators continued to comb the scene of an hourslong standoff in Dorchester that ended with three officers shot and an armed suspect dead, one of the officers remained in a Boston hospital.

One of three police officers shot during a deadly standoff in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood was released from the hospital Tuesday night.

Two of three police officers shot during a deadly standoff in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood have been released from the hospital, but the investigation into what led them there continued Wednesday. One officer was saluted by his colleagues as he exited the doors of Boston Medical Center and made his way into a waiting car. The wounded officer who remains...

Two officers have been shot while responding to a standoff at the corner of Ferndale and Norfolk streets in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood Tuesday.

Loved ones of Christopher Gomes are remembering him after his shooting death, allegedly at the hands of a man who also shot a police officer and then took his own life.

The family of the 28-year-old killed in Brockton, Massachusetts, Thursday night by a man who went on to shoot a police officer, then himself, arrived at the scene a day later to grieve.

Police are working to uncover what happened when a man fatally shot someone, then injured a police officer before killing himself. New surveillance video shows the moment the incident began.

Investigators searched for explosives overnight after an officer was shot multiple times in an hours long standoff in Brockton, Massachusetts. The gunman and one other person died, authorities said Thursday night.

Three members of the Rise of the Moors, a group arrested after an armed standoff along a Massachusetts highway in early July, are due in court Tuesday.

Deputies with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said the woman, 28-year-old Jessica Smith, drove through the active scene and ignored officer commands to exit the golf cart. The incident happened just after midnight Sunday.