3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (422+ words) Pump prices are finally heading in the opposite direction. The average Bay State gas price has dropped 9 cents in a week amid rising optimism that the U.S. and Iran are edging closer to a peace deal that would reopen the Strait…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (610+ words) The United States Geological Survey has confirmed that the mysterious noise heard across Massachusetts Saturday afternoon, prompting rampant curiosity, was a sonic boom from a meteor. “This event is a widely felt sonic boom from a suspected bolide,” the USGS…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (504+ words) A Massachusetts police chief is unloading on critics of his department’s social media posts about crime in his small South Coast town, which he says are not meant to “win popularity contests.” Rochester Police Chief Michael A. Assad Jr. is…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (662+ words) Will the infamous Joro spiders pop up in the Bay State again this year? Researchers are telling local residents to “definitely keep an eye out” for the large black and yellow arachnids — as the scientists recently looked into how these…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (480+ words) Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell is claiming victory after the state’s highest court ruled that social media giant Meta is not immune to litigation that argues Instagram has addictive features that exploit children. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has determined that…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago   (696+ words) The Massachusetts House on Wednesday passed a bill restricting social media use for children and banning student cellphone use during the school day, adding language aimed at addressing addictive feeds and protecting certain vulnerable groups. The bill (S 2581, as amended)…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (882+ words) LOWELL — After a quarter-century in the collection of late Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, the original draft of Jack Kerouac’s most iconic book is returning to the author’s home city. When Kerouac first wrote “On the Road” in April 1951, he…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (646+ words) A Quincy man may spend 25 years of his life behind bars after pleading guilty to robbing a bank last year — a crime that netted him less than $1,000. Glenn Legere, 46, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Boston to armed bank…...

10+ mon, 4+ week ago   (484+ words) Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey says that coordinated law enforcement efforts have cracked down on illegal “street takeovers” like the one in South Boston last week that ended with a police car set on fire. She also announced the state was…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago   (587+ words) A Massachusetts police chief is backing the Department of Homeland Security’s claim that a video aired by a news outlet fails to reflect that an illegal immigrant locked his 5-year-old daughter alone in a car as he tried to evade…...