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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and others spoke out Saturday after dozens of apparent white supremacists marched through the city’s streets. The Boston Police Department said it learned around 12:30 p.m. that about 100 protesters had gathered on Congress Street near City Hall Plaza. Photos and videos post…

The project is being built by developer Pennrose and LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc., a Massachusetts nonprofit.

Authorities are investigating the homicide of a 14-year-old girl in Mount Vernon, Maine. The teen’s mother came home to find her dead around 6 p.m. Monday, state police said. Her death was initially deemed suspicious, but the medical examiner’s office determined Wednesday that she had been killed. State police identified the teen Thursday as Brooke McLaughlin. She was a seventh…

“Two active shooter events” were under investigation in Androscoggin County, Maine. Over a dozen people were killed at two businesses in Lewiston, Maine

A G5 geomagnetic storm meant stargazers could see the aurora borealis in Massachusetts and elsewhere

The agency that oversees allegations of police misconduct in Massachusetts said Monday that the Boston Police Department has demoted a deputy superintendent because of his appointment. The Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission says Eddy Chrispin was demoted last week from his command position to sergeant detective “due to his recent appointment as a POST Commissioner.” The POST Commission…

Republican Sen. Susan Collins is planning to run for a sixth term in two years, NBC affiliate News Center Maine reported. The senator made the announcement of her 2026 campaign at a stop Friday in Vassalboro. Collins has been in office since 1997 and has staked out a moderate position in the Republican Party. Earlier this week, she voiced skepticism…

A teenager has been arrested more than a month after an armed home invasion in Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood. Thousands of dollars’ worth of property was stolen from a Weld Street home on the afternoon of Sunday, Nov. 17, after three intruders threatened a resident and his dog. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said a West Roxbury 15-year-old, whose…

Crews rescued two hikers from Massachusetts who became lost Sunday night on Mount Washington. The New Hampshire Fish and Game Law Enforcement Division said Monday that it had learned of the hikers’ disappearance shortly after 6 p.m. Sunday. The hikers, identified as 51-year-old Kathryn McKee of Southborough and 54-year-old Beata Lelacheur of Westborough, “were stuck in very deep snow” about…

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