A child was hit by a vehicle Friday night in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood.
The crash happened on Dale Street.
Police say the child, who is 11 or 12, suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
The driver stayed at the scene, police sa…
Massachusetts
Found feline: Cat discovered at Logan Airport reunited with family
A missing cat is back home with his family tonight thanks to two employees at Logan International Airport.
The cat was first spotted in a garage at the airport, according to the Animal Rescue League of Boston (ARL). The employees contacted ARL…
Migrants seek refuge in East Boston church
A church in East Boston, Massachusetts is taking in dozens of migrants who have nowhere to go, barred by new restrictions on the state emergency shelter system.
With shelters at capacity and new measures limiting the length of stay in these pl…
Chelsea man who stabbed wife to death sentenced to at least 25 years in prison
A Chelsea, Massachusetts, man who pleaded guilty to stabbing his estranged wife to death in an apartment in 2021 was sentenced to at least 25 years in prison Friday.
Mario Mira, 51, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, admitting to killing …
Mass. officials say man in his 80s contracted EEE in state’s 1st human case since 2020
Massachusetts has identified its first human case of Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, since 2020.
The patient, a man in his 80s, was exposed to the mosquito-borne illness in Worcester County, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health s…
Fla. woman killed in moped crash on Martha’s Vineyard, police say
A crash between a moped and a Jeep on Martha’s Vineyard Thursday left a woman from Florida dead and two other women hurt, Massachusetts State Police said.
Julia Harris, a 41-year-old from Fort Lauderdale, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, on Seaview Avenue in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts State Police said Friday.
Investigators believe Harris, who was driving the moped, lost control, crossed the median of the road and hit a Jeep Wrangler headed the other way. While she was pronounced dead at the scene, her passenger, a 40-year-old woman from Boston, was injured, but is in stable condition after being flown to a Boston hospital, police said.
Both women on the moped had helmets on, investigators found.
There were several women in the Jeep, one of whom had minor injuries, according to police, who were still investigating what happened Friday.
