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Authorities investigating a series of sexual assaults say a man pretended to be a rideshare driver to pick up victims. William Mancortes, 43, of Boston, is charged with two rapes and a sexual assault. The attacks date back to 2017. Investigators say they arrested Mancortes after matching his DNA to the sexual assault kits taken from the victims. &#...

One of only 340 or so endangered North Atlantic right whales will likely die. After an aerial survey last week, experts at the New England Aquarium say the whale, named Snow Cone, a female who had recently reproduced and added to the scarce species’ population, had become newly entangled in fishing gear and was covered in cyamids or “whale li...

A building on the Boston University campus was briefly evacuated Monday over a suspicious package, university police said. The nature of the suspicious package wasn’t immediately clear but there was no threat to the public, officials said just before 5 p.m. The package was reported about 3:28 p.m. at 1 Silber Way, Boston police said. The addr...

The over $6.4 billion in ad spending already surpasses both the 2018 and 2020 election cycles, according to nonpartisan research firm AdImpact.

Drive times got longer on some major highways in the area, according to data from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation provided to NBC10 Boston.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker acknowledged in a radio interview Monday that he was “more timid than I should have been” when it came to fixing the troubled MBTA during the early years of his administration. Baker, who took office in 2015, said during an appearance on GBH News’ “Boston Public Radio” program that he c...

A cleaning company is facing over $65,000 in citations for allegedly violating state labor laws, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office announced in a news release Monday. MP Star Professionals, which operates as Cleaning Pros, and its owner Christian Perez, were issued the citations for several alleged violations, including failure to p...

A school bus driver was seriously injured when the vehicle crashed with a small dump truck on Cape Cod Monday morning, police said. No students were on board the bus in the crash on River Road in Barnstable, local police said. Its driver is expected to survive, and the driver of the dump truck had minor injuries. The front end…

A large, upper level storm swirling in the sky over the Great Lakes is ejecting bundles of atmospheric energy east into New England, but they are spaced out enough to allow for decent weather between each disturbance.  The first example of this is Monday, coming off predawn showers and thunderstorms that woke Cape Cod residents up, but the ins...

As Halloween season kicks into gear, some packages of candy corn have been recalled from stores in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

A Revere man is facing multiple charges after he allegedly broke into a Boston woman’s home, punched her in the face and stole money and a PlayStation video game console that belonged to her 7-year-old son. Andrew Pucci, 29, is charged with assault and battery, home invasion and malicious destruction of property over $1,200. Prosecutors said ...

A demonstration over the weekend involving a Massachusetts GOP candidate for U.S. House ended with a fight breaking out, according to the Somerville Police Department. Officers with Somerville police responded to a report of a fight behind the Somerville Theatre on Saturday, where a verbal argument between two people attending a demonstration with ...

Russia’s Investigative Committee said in statement that 11 children were among those killed in the Monday morning shooting in School No. 88 in Izhevsk.