Massachusetts

Nine people have now died as a result of the outbreak, which the agency said is now the largest listeria outbreak in the U.S. since 2011. Fifty-seven people have been hospitalized.

Officers arrested a serial sexual assault suspect in Westwood after a pursuit that ended when the man drove into a congested hospital roundabout. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Aug. 8, 2024.

Police say a teenager fished a smoke grenade out of Beaver Brook in Dracut, Massachusetts, on Tuesday morning.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy says he’s lucky to be alive after he found himself in his boat adrift with no power off Nantucket on Monday.

“It’s a reminder that some of the most meaningful, beautiful moments are ones that unfold in unexpected ways.”

Teams in Massachusetts found one group of 10 Atlantic white-sided dolphins swimming in a dangerously shallow area at dawn on Saturday and managed to herd them out into deeper water.

A Massachusetts man is facing federal charges, accused of trafficking the body parts of protected wildlife from Africa and Asia to be sold to buyers in the U.S.

A Cape Cod man is accused of drunkenly running his boat aground on Martha’s Vineyard last weekend. Massachusetts State Police say the boat operator, identified as 32-year-old Riley Blizard, of Cotuit, is being charged with operating a boat under the influence of liquor, and negligent operation of a boat. According to police, troopers responded to Chappaquiddick Island around 9:40...

A theater in Massachusetts is apologizing after a special screening of the movie “Jaws” went off the rails when actor Richard Dreyfuss allegedly went on a transphobic, misogynistic, homophobic and sexist rant.

A Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media died from ingesting a substance containing a high amount of the chili pepper extract capsaicin, according to autopsy results. Harris Wolobah, a 14-year-old sophomore at Doherty Memorial High School in Worcester, died on Sept. 1, 2023, after eating the chip manufactured by Paqui, a Texas-based subsidiary…

A Massachusetts man who received the world’s first genetically-edited pig kidney transplant has died, his family announced Saturday.

Decades after a 10-year-old Massachusetts girl was beaten to death, a man has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to under three years in prison.

An Attleboro, Massachusetts, woman has hit the jackpot — not once, but twice — playing the Massachusetts State Lottery.

A couple in New England was left in stitches from a hilarious mistake made by their local bakery.

Richard Slayman of Weymouth was discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital after receiving the world’s first genetically-edited pig kidney transplant.

The lawsuit filed by Jeff Smith against the government follows a 2019 crash in which Smith’s snowmobile clipped the helicopter that was parked on a Massachusetts trail.

A rarely seen gray whale, extinct in the Atlantic Ocean, was spotted last week swimming off the coast of Nantucket, according to the New England Aquarium.

Six people, four of them current and former Massachusetts State Police troopers, have been arrested as part of an alleged bribery conspiracy to give guaranteed passing scores to certain applicants for commercial driver’s licenses, or CDLs, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts.

Two people, one a teenager, were killed in a crash caused by a drunken driver going the wrong way on Route 6 in Somerset, Massachusetts, on the night of Christmas, state police said Tuesday.

A Massachusetts police chief apologized after an officer searched a middle school for a copy of “Gender Queer: A Memoir.”