Taunton

Firefighters across Massachusetts and elsewhere in New England are having to chase hot spots every day as drought conditions fuel wildfires and prompt water bans. The Town of Weymouth is one of those that recently enacted water use restrictions. Signs of heat and drought are evident everywhere in Massachusetts. On Tuesday, fire crews in Gloucester battled through their second day…

Hot and dry summer weather has led to brush fires across New England.

A 44-year-old man was injured in a shooting Wednesday night in Taunton, Massachusetts, police said. Taunton police were called to Mador Ave. around 8:10 p.m. for a reported shooting. The victim, identified only as a Taunton man, was taken by ambulance to an area hospital for treatment. There was no immediate word on his condition. No further details were shared,…

A man was killed in an electrical accident that started a fire Thursday morning in Taunton, Massachusetts. He was identified Monday as Michael Messina, 58 of North Easton. Fire oficials said the man, later identified as Messina, was removing an antenna from a three-story apartment building on Danforth Street around 7:30 a.m. when the antenna made contact with a nearby…

A Taunton, Massachusetts, man did not read the fine print when he purchased a motorhome last year. When problems arose, he reached out to NBC10 Boston Responds for help. Nate Daniels traded in his small travel trailer and upgraded to a larger bus style motorhome last June. “When I stepped foot inside of it, I fell in love with the…

A Taunton man did not read the fine print when he purchased a motorhome last year. He reached out to NBC10 Boston Responds for help when problems arose.

Fire officials in Taunton are trying to figure out how a massive house fire started early Saturday morning.

A large fire burned in Taunton, Massachusetts, Saturday morning, threatening several buildings. The blaze was in a commercial building on Spring Lane near Taunton City Hall, according to the the city’s fire department, which was assisted by crews from surrounding towns. The commercial building was a repurposed mill building built in 1900. Multiple buildings in the immediate area were at…

Police in Taunton say they have located a woman with cognitive impairments who had been missing since Friday. Maria Goncalves Pereira, 53, was last seen on Friday around 5 p.m. leaving her residence on Beacon Street in Taunton, according to local police, who said that she suffers from cognitive impairments. Pereira was first reported missing around 7 p.m. Friday. Taunton…

Police in Taunton, Massachusetts, responded to a 911 call that was later determined to be a hoax, describing the situation as a swatting case. In a call to the Taunton Police Department shortly before 3:15 p.m. Friday, a male caller said he had killed his girlfriend and planned to harm himself at a home on Williams Street. Police and a…

A Massachusetts State Police cruiser was hit by a drunk driver in Taunton on Thursday night. A trooper was in the cruiser around 11 p.m. when it was struck. The trooper immediately called for help over his radio. Numerous agencies responded, including Taunton police and fire. The driver, Saul Justa, 44, of Taunton, was arrested and charged with operating under…

A yearslong battle over the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s 321 acres of reservation land in Mashpee and Taunton, Massachusetts, is over and future generations “will forever have a place to be Wampanoag,” the tribe’s chairman said Wednesday night. The U.S. Department of the Interior’s assistant secretary for Indian affairs on Wednesday issued a 55-page decision confirming the legal status of...

A long way from its home in Asia, a rare Steller’s sea eagle was spotted by 200 bird watchers around Taunton River, Massachusetts on Monday. The eagle is reportedly the same one that went off course a year ago and has been spotted in Alaska and Canada by bird watchers across North America, The Boston Globe reported on Tuesday. Flocks…

A school staff member in Taunton, Massachusetts, is on administrative leave after allegedly using a racial slur while speaking to a student. Superintendent John Cabral said Taunton Public Schools is investigating the incident involving a worker who is not a teacher. “Taunton High School Interim Principal Scott Holcomb yesterday became aware of an incident in the past month in which…

The festivities of Taunton’s Christmas festival were shadowed by a stabbing.

Drivers on a Massachusetts highway experienced pretty unusual traffic on Tuesday when they found a horse running alongside their cars. The animal was spotted galloping down Route 140 south in Taunton around 11:15 a.m. near exit 19, according to officials from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Video captured the unusual scene, showing the adventurous horse running alongside traffic on the…

A driver in Taunton filmed a horse running down Massachusetts Route 140 on Tuesday.

Two people were taken to a local hospital Sunday night after a rollover car crash in Taunton, Massachusetts. The Taunton Fire Department responded to the crash on Myles Standish Boulevard just before 11 p.m. Sunday. When they arrived, police and firefighters said they found a 2016 Audi A6 that had rolled onto its roof. The driver, a 49-year-old man, and a...

A 12-year-old boy was seriously hurt after being hit by a car Friday in Taunton, Massachusetts. The crash happened around 6:30 p.m. as the boy was crossing Plain Street with a family member. Police say the boy slipped and fell backward into the path of a Nissan Sentra. The driver stayed on the scene, police said. The victim was taken…

Some students at Taunton High School received sexually explicit content from another person’s phone last week while classes were in session, officials said Thursday.