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A large police investigation is underway at a motel in Wareham, Massachusetts, on Wednesday morning.

Police are investigating after a 31-year-old man was found dead in a motel room in Wareham, Massachusetts, early Wednesday morning. The man was found dead after a well-being check on a room at the Village Motel at 2739 Cranberry Highway, the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office said. The man was pronounced dead at the scene after police were called about…

No one was hurt, fire officials said.

A woman and her infant escaped a Wareham, Massachusetts, house fire early Saturday morning that firefighters said was caused by a charging hoverboard. The Wareham Fire Department responded to a 911 call reporting the house fire on Rose Point Avenue around 12:55 a.m. According to officials, the caller said she was in the house with an infant and unable to…

A hawk took pool-hopping to new heights Wednesday, when it crashed into a window surrounding a home’s pool, authorities said. The hawk was not visibly injured, though images shared by the Wareham Department of Natural Resources showed the bird staring at the window it broke through. “Let’s just say this poor hawk was seeing birdies!!!” the department wrote on...

A 13-year-old girl is dead after a motocross crash in Wareham, Massachusetts.

A 13-year-old girl was killed and another man injured in a dirt bike crash in Wareham, Massachusetts, on Monday. The Plymouth District Attorney’s Office said state police detectives from their office were notified of a fatal dirt bike crash at Wareham MX Park on Cranberry Highway around 4 p.m. on Monday. The teen was reportedly riding on the dirt...

Wareham was hit hard by flooding after 7+ inches of rain fell, inundating basements and backyards.

Heavy rain caused roads to flood Thursday morning including in Wareham and on Storrow Drive in Boston.

Some coastal towns say big crowds are generating piles of trash on their beaches.

Residents of Wareham contacted NBC10 Boston about the trash piling up near Onset Beach. Despite the warning of $500 fines for littering, enforcement can be rare.

Three adults and one cat escaped a house fire in Wareham, Massachusetts, Monday morning, but another cat died. The Wareham Fire Department received multiple calls about a fire at 33 Long Boat Road in West Wareham around 2:17 a.m. Monday. Wareham Police officers arrived on scene first and told firefighters that there home was heavily involved in fire. Firefighters made an…

A person on a freight train was shot by a pellet gun in Wareham, Massachusetts. Police say the incident appears to be accidental.

Authorities on Monday recovered the body of a man who apparently died while swimming in an icy reservoir in Wareham, Massachusetts, a day earlier. The victim’s name is not being released at this time.

Authorities say the man did not fall through ice, but willingly entered the pond in Wareham.

Divers are expected to return Monday morning after spending hours Sunday night searching for the missing man’s body in the area of 786 County Road, where there is a reservoir and cranberry bog.

Authorities have identified the man whose body they recovered from an icy reservoir in Wareham, Massachusetts, after a search that spanned two days. Thomas Bartholomew, 44, of Wareham, was declared dead Monday after his body was recovered from the water around 12:45 p.m., according to Plymouth Country District Attorney Timothy Cruz. The search for Bartholomew began around 4:30 p.m. Sunday…

First responders spent hours Sunday night searching an icy reservoir in their quest to find a missing person who fell through the ice in Wareham, Massachusetts. And they say they will resume the search for the man’s body Monday morning.

First responders spent hours Sunday night searching an icy reservoir in their quest to find a missing person who fell through the ice in Wareham, Massachusetts. Wareham police responded to the area of 786 County Road — where there is a reservoir and cranberry bog — for a water rescue around 4:30 p.m. The Plymouth County Technical Rescue Team (PCTRT)…

Lt. Walter Correia, of the Wareham Police Department, talks about snow measures in place for Wareham ahead of Sunday’s storm that is expected to drop continuous snow from brunch through bedtime for parts of New England. Correia talked specifically about the importance of people not traveling with snow on the roofs of their vehicles.