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Major hospitals in Massachusetts are taking extra precautions for their pregnant patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. At UMass Medical Center in Worcester, a clinic has been dedicated just for expectant mothers who have the disease.

A Boston woman is dead after she was struck while crossing Route 9 in Westboro, Massachusetts, Monday night.

Authorities in Webster, Massachusetts are investigating a stabbing at a strip club overnight.

The family of a 10-year-old girl who died at an elementary school in Worcester earlier this month while eating continues to search for answers relating to her death. Marilyn Ofobi Korankyewaa was eating carrots at Belmont Community School when she reportedly began coughing, Worcester News tonight reported. She was taken to UMass Medical Center in Worcester, where she died a...

A 13-year-old boy was struck by a car while riding his bike in Pepperell, Massachusetts Sunday night.

The man charged in connection with a fatal crash in Auburn, Massachusetts was ordered held on $50,000 cash bail at his arraignment Friday. DeJesus Amaro, 24, of Taunton, is facing charges that include motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation in connection with the Thursday afternoon accident.

A suspect in a Massachusetts homicide has been found dead in his prison hospital room of an apparent suicide. The Telegram & Gazette reports that Dean Valchuis, of Berlin, was in state custody awaiting trial in connection with the death of 58-year-old Roger Bemis, of Clinton, in February. The Department of Correction says Valchuis was pronounced dead early Thursday at...

A Massachusetts man who is facing charges in connection with the brutal beating death of another man was arraigned from his hospital bed at UMass Medical Center on Monday. Dean Valchuis, 47, was arraigned on an assault and battery charge after he allegedly beat 58-year-old Roger Bemis in Bemis’s home in Clinton on the night of the Super Bowl. Bemis...

A Massachusetts State Trooper is recovering from surgery after being stabbed multiple times during a pursuit of a suspect in New Salem on Friday.

A Massachusetts State Police trooper sustained stab wounds to the head, neck, shoulders and arm while trying to apprehend an 18-year-old man who had fled an earlier traffic stop. Authorities said the teenage suspect from Manchester, New Hampshire was then shot in the torso by the 47-year-old trooper, and both were taken to UMass Medical Center in Worcester with serious...

A 31-year-old Lawrence woman has died after her car rear ended a Ford F-350 pickup truck that was towing a car carrier on Route 290 Eastbound in Worcester early Saturday morning, according to state police.

Police in Milford, Massachusetts are investigating after a 17-year-old boy was pulled from the water in a local pond on Saturday.

A four-year-old was hospitalized Tuesday morning after a guardrail sliced through the car she was inside of in Northbridge, Massachusetts. Police responded to the one-car crash at 11:20 a.m. where the guardrail had gone through the front windshield and exited the back window.

A popular longtime Boston-area radio reporter has died. WBZ-AM announced Wednesday that Lana Jones “died suddenly this morning at UMass Medical Center in Worcester.” She was 62. The station did not provide a cause of death. Jones had worked at WBZ since 1991 and had been a part of the area’s radio news scene since 1981. WBZ program director Bill…

A Massachusetts police chief says one of his officers was seriously hurt in an early morning head-on crash while responding to reports of an out-of-control house party.

State Police are investigating a crash on the Massachusetts Turnpike involving a tractor-trailer that struck a police cruiser in Framingham.

A report of a suspicious man in a Massachusetts town early Friday morning led to an officer-involved shooting, authorities said.

A massive fire that destroyed and damaged four Massachusetts homes late Tuesday night also sent the town’s fire chief to the hospital for exhaustion.

A motorcycle crash in Littleton, Massachusetts shut down Route 495 southbound briefly on Sunday evening, according to Massachusetts State Police.