Massachusetts

Patrick Clancy is speaking out for the first time, one day after it was announced his baby had succumbed to his injuries, and several days after his other two children died, allegedly at the hands of their mother in their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home.

Murder defendants have been charged and convicted without dead bodies — including by the district attorney’s office prosecuting Brian Walshe.

The child had dropped the doll while she was waiting for the school bus.

Milanka Ljubicic’s interview with NBC News comes a day after prosecutors alleged Brian Walshe dismembered and discarded her daughter’s body.

Blame it on the pandemic and “supply chain problems,” says the school district’s assistant superintendent of finance.

A 20-year-old woman who was originally from Newburyport, Massachusetts, died while on vacation in Cancún, Mexico.

It’s well-known that movie star Ben Affleck loves his Dunkin’ — he’s often spotted drinking one — and now he’s apparently serving them, too.

As the family of collapsed Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin asks for prayers, people in Massachusetts — including the father of a high school football player who died in a game in 2010 — are sending their condolences.

A Massachusetts doctor who allegedly punched a police officer during the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was arrested Tuesday, federal prosecutors said. Dr. Jacquelyn Starer, 68, appeared in federal court in Boston Tuesday on charges including felony civil disorder and assaulting, resisting or impeding officers, according to the Department of Justice. The FBI was tipped off on…

Bristol County prosecutors received an international arrest warrant, Massachusetts State Police said, and Mario Garcia, now 50, was taken into custody at the shrimp farm after trying to get away through the water.

A Massachusetts man arrested last year in the FBI’s U.S. Capitol riot investigation has pleaded guilty to assaulting members of law enforcement, the Department of Justice said Monday.

The man suspected of killing an elderly couple in their Marshfield, Massachusetts, home is in custody in Florida, ending a dayslong manhunt.

Youth football players in Lynn, Massachusetts, were bound for a championship match in Florida, but their sudden disqualification left players disheartened. Jubilation came Saturday as East Lynn’s Pop Warner team won the regional championship over Everett. The league’s regional president addressed the team after the game, telling players they would be representing eastern Massachusetts in Florida. The next day,...

One person is dead and 27 others were injured when a shuttle bus carrying Brandeis University students crashed into a tree late Saturday night in Waltham, Massachusetts, authorities said.

The Democrat from Massachusetts made history as the first out lesbian to be elected governor of a U.S. state on Tuesday.

Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey has been elected governor of Massachusetts, making history as the state’s first woman and first openly gay candidate elected to the office, NBC News projected.

A young man was leaving TD Garden late Friday night after attending a Celtics game with his dad when he heard screams for help.

A 73-year-old convicted sex offender has been charged in connection with the 1966 disappearance and death of a 10-year-old Massachusetts girl. Donald Mars was arraigned Thursday on a charge of first-degree murder in connection with the death of Betty Lou Zukowski. Prosecutors say she left her Chicopee home on the evening of May 26, 1966, and was found beaten to...

Detectives looking into the unsolved killing of Ruth Marie Terry, known for years only as “The Lady of the Dunes,” are focusing on the woman’s relationships — including her last husband, a man who had once drawn FBI scrutiny in another killing, sources told the NBC10 Boston Investigators.

The Biden administration said Wednesday it is making $4.5 billion available through a low-income home energy assistance program to help with heating costs heading into what is expected to be a brutal winter.