vandalism

According to Tewksbury police, the incident occurred on Catamount Road.

Police in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, have asked the public to help them identify a vandalism suspect after an incident on Friday night.

Police are asking for help after numerous mailboxes were vandalized in Billerica sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning.

Police are asking for help after numerous mailboxes were vandalized in Billerica sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning. Vandals hit mailboxes and fences along Fardon Street, French Street and Glad Valley Drive. Surveillance video from one of the targeted homes shows two people running up the street after apparently knocking down a mailbox. Police are now asking residents to…

Vandals hit mailboxes and fences along Fardon Street, French Street and Glad Valley Drive.

People in Billerica, Massachusetts, woke up Friday to find their mailboxes vandalized. The damage took place sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning, impacting Fardon Street, French Street and Glad Valley Drive. “It’s disrespectful,” said Kim Navarro, whose mailbox is now propped up against a tree after it was torn from the ground. “I discovered it when I woke...

Residents of Billerica found their mailboxes vandalized between Thursday night and Friday morning.

Investigators said an antisemitic message was found carved into a car, and that the vandals may have also tried to set the house on fire.

An antisemitic message was carved into the side of a car at a home in Stow, Massachusetts, over the weekend, according to Stow police, and it seems the vandal may have also tried to set the house on fire. Police said officers were called to a home on North Shore Drive for the report around 9:45 a.m. Saturday. There they…

A man was arrested Tuesday night for allegedly dumping a bucket of paint and writing profanities on the Washington Monument.

Police in Portland, Maine, say they’re investigating possible hate crimes at and around a mosque in the city. The incidents include a video of a burning Quran sent to a member of the mosque and a message left on “pavement” near the home of a Muslim family living a short distance away, according to a spokesperson for the Portland...

Police said it happened between midnight and 8 a.m. throughout the downtown area.

Drivers in Chelsea, Massachusetts, had an unpleasant surprise when they went out to their cars this morning – someone went through downtown slashing tires. Evelyn Tyler is disabled and needed to use her car Wednesday. “I have appointments to go to I can’t go nowhere right now I have to be stuck in the house, house-bound.” She said she...

A group of teenagers attacked a cab driver with a hammer and spit on him at an MBTA train station in Boston Thursday night after breaking some Red Line train car windows, police said. Two of the teenagers were arrested at the station and a third has been identified, MBTA Transit Police said Friday. The incident began about 10:45 p.m….

Several months after a series of racist graffiti and swastikas were discovered on Curry College’s campus in Milton, Massachusetts, the president of the college announced Wednesday that an employee has been fired in connection to the ongoing investigation. According to President Kenneth Quigley, the FBI’s joint terrorism task force, the Milton Police Department, and the Curry College Public Safety...

Multiple Orange Line trains were temporarily taken out of service Thursday after being vandalized overnight, the MBTA said.

The college did not name the employee but said it hopes this announcement brings some closure to the events the school community has suffered through.

Vermont Capitol Police are asking for tips from the public that could help them identify a suspect they say vandalized the Vermont State House in Montpelier over the weekend. Investigators released a surveillance image on their Facebook page which shows a person outside the historic building over the weekend. Capitol Police say the person in the image is the prime…

For a third time this year, vandals struck a cemetery in Freetown, Massachusetts. Headstones at White Cemetery were hit with graffiti twice earlier this year. This time the Assonet Burying Ground was targeted. The vandals hit stones again with messages like “Try handwriting analysis” and more concerning ones, like “U stop me before I kill.” Rick Fetters lives in the…

Gravestones were vandalized at a cemetery in Assonet a village in Freetown, Massachusetts. This is the third time a cemetery in town has been vandalized this year.