Taunton

Nearly every day, loud music blares from Dorothea Pelletier’s neighbor’s home, rattling her bedroom windows, waking her up at odd hours and upsetting her elderly, ill husband.  The music has been disturbing her family for three years, she said, but she hasn’t been able to get help from either Taunton police or city hall, despite making about two dozen...

Friday is the deadline for schools to submit their fall reopening plans, and at least 32 of them have already decided against having kids return to class at all. Auburn, Barnstable, Belmont, Bourne, Brockton, Brookline, Chelsea, Dedham, Everett, Framingham, Gardner, Lawrence, Leominster, Lynn, Marblehead, Manchester-Essex, Masconomet, Mendon-Upton, Methuen, Northbridge, Revere, Salem, Somerset, Somerville, Taunton, Topsfield, Wachusett, Watertown, Wayland, Webster, West…

The Boston Teachers Union was scheduled to deliver its school reopening plans to Mayor Marty Walsh Thursday afternoon.

Dr. Brenda Cassellius, the superintendent of Boston Public Schools, and Mayor Marty Walsh have already ruled out a full-scale return for the fall. School officials are still trying to decide between a hybrid or remote-only model as they consider limitations within their facilities and transportation capabilities.

Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday identified four high risk Massachusetts cities and towns that will be the focus of his new COVID Enforcement and Intervention Team. Chelsea, Everett, Lynn and Revere are included in the high risk category, meaning they have over eight cases per 100,000 residents. Twenty-nine other communities, including Auburn, Belchertown, Boston, Brockton, Charlton, Chicopee, Fall River, Framingham,…

Massachusetts released a map showing coronavirus hot spots across the state.

With a recent uptick in coronavirus cases, Gov. Charlie Baker is implementing new regulations starting Tuesday.

Amid rising coronavirus cases in Massachusetts, Gov. Charlie Baker identifies four communities as “high risk” that will be the focus of increased enforcement of the mask mandate and crowd control.

A man accused of attacking a Massachusetts couple at their home over their sexuality has been held without bail after a dangerousness hearing. Michael Cates of Brockton is accused of a hate crime in the incident at a Taunton couple’s home on June 29, the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office said. He was found dangerous Thursday during an appearance...

A young child was taken to a hospital from a home in Taunton, Massachusetts, Wednesday after paramedics received a call for a possible drowning, authorities said. The 2-year-old child was flown to Boston for treatment, and while their condition was not known to Taunton’s police and fire departments, they said in a news released Wednesday evening they were told...

A little boy in Taunton was pulled unresponsive from the water.

Twenty-three-year-old Jacob Peabody of Taunton, Massachusetts, drowned Friday night at the Ellis Haven Campground in Plymouth, the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office announced.

A Taunton man was run over by a family member’s BMW Saturday afternoon in what authorities described as an accident that came about while the man was inspecting the vehicle. Alan Moreau was rushed to Charlton Memorial Hospital, where he later was pronounced dead, the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office said Monday. A family member was driving the BMW...

A Native American tribe’s long running effort to secure sovereign land for a casino in Massachusetts is now in the hands of a federal appeals court in Boston.

Bristol-Plymouth Regional Technical School in Taunton, Massachusetts was evacuated Tuesday due to a threat, the regional high school said. Students were evacuated and the building cleared, the school said. The threat was writing on a bathroom wall that mentioned a bomb, according to Taunton police. It was discovered by a student, who told school officials and who in turn called…

Two teenagers were rescued Thursday after falling through ice in Taunton, Massachusetts. The two 14-year-old boys were spotted in the Taunton River around 2 p.m. Good Samaritans and first responders teamed up to save them. Kevin Boss, a 54-year-old Taunton man, said one of the teens was trying to swim to the shore while the other was struggling to stay…

A woman narrowly escaped serious injury when she exited her car before a pickup truck reversed into her vehicle and crushed it at a Massachusetts car wash on Sunday. WJAR reports the crash happened at about 2 p.m. at Prestige Car Wash in Taunton. The pickup truck can be seen in surveillance footage reversing into a self-service area and landing…

A Massachusetts truck driver has been cited after state police say he caused a crash that injured two students, a bus driver and a woman Wednesday morning in Taunton. State police said troopers responded to the crash involving a school bus and two commercial trucks on Route 140 northbound, near Exit 11, just before 8 a.m. The bus, which was…

A woman was seriously injured when she seems to have exited through a passenger-side window of a moving vehicle on a Massachusetts highway early Sunday, according to Massachusetts State Police. The driver of the car, 25-year-old Joseph Monsini, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. He was taken to the State Police Barracks in Foxborough. It’s unclear...