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A duck boat that happened to be conducting water rescue training saved a man and his child from the Charles River Monday morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Images showed the pair in the water.

Former NFL player Gosder Cherilus was arrested on an overnight flight from Boston to Dublin for allegedly urinating on another passenger.

A video showing a Sephora worker telling off a person in apparent blackface at the store in Boston’s Prudential Center has prompted the makeup store to issue a statement reiterating the “type of behavior tolerated” there.

The dehydrated bodies of four dead monkeys were discovered by a police dog in luggage at customs at Boston Logan International Airport on Thursday, officials said.

An American Airlines flight attendant has been accused of secretly recording underage passengers while they were using the airplane bathrooms, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts said Thursday.

Sally Snowman, a 72-year-old auxiliarist with the U.S. Coast Guard, has spent 20 years as the lighthouse keeper on Little Brewster Island in Boston Harbor.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on Wednesday will issue a formal apology to two men wrongfully arrested in 1989 by police investigating the killing of Carol Stuart, case that fanned racial tensions in the city.

The attorney for the family of a teen girl who allegedly discovered a camera in a bathroom aboard a Boston-bound aircraft earlier this month is speaking out about the “outrageous act.”

An Oregon man is being charged with the 1979 murder of a woman in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, after last month telling federal authorities he fatally struck the woman in the head with a hammer and raped her, according to Massachusetts prosecutors.

AJ Dybantsa is the top-ranked high school basketball player in the 2026 recruiting class, and he’s already getting advice from LeBron James and Kevin Durant.

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard pushed back on social media users who alleged their story about being stuck at an airport in Boston last month was a lie.

A woman who went into labor just before a Pink concert at Fenway Park ended up walking to the hospital to give birth last week. Angela Mercer’s new baby boy is healthy and her family is overjoyed, despite having missed the show they came to Boston to see, according to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where Mercer walked from Fenway....

Stranded vehicles, property damage and flash floods were seen across New England on Tuesday, while parts of Massachusetts were under a tornado warning.

Federal investigators say the pilot of a charter jet took off without permission, causing an approaching JetBlue plane to cancel its landing at the last second.

Actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard were kicked out of Boston Logan International Airport on Wednesday for trying to spend the night after a flight delay.

A baby was in the backseat during a carjacking in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood Friday, according to Boston police, and the suspect then left the child on the side of the road. Police say the child was found abandoned, but unhurt, about a block away from the carjacking, which happened near Seaver Street and Geneva Avenue just before 3 p.m....

Dozens of young musicians at a Boston recital got a big surprise Saturday afternoon when Ed Sheeran showed up to their concert and joined them on stage. Sheeran posted video on his Instagram account of his impromptu performance where he sang and danced at the Tobin Community Center in Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood alongside young performers of the “Boston...

A 32-year-old woman who once worked as a social worker and is suspected of enrolling in three Boston high schools faces several criminal charges, including identity fraud and forgery

The New England Patriots were notified that cornerback Jack Jones had been arrested at Boston’s Logan Airport; Massachusetts State Police said two guns were found in his carry-on luggage.

A group of people stole and sold off human remains from Harvard Medical School’s morgue, federal prosecutors say, with a grand jury indicting the morgue’s manager and his wife, among others.