5+ hour, 48+ min ago  (445+ words) A Westborough police officer with dreams of becoming her department's first female supervisor was crowned this year's Miss Massachusetts over the weekend. Ashlyn Mercier, 25, will only be the second law enforcement officer to compete in the national Miss America competition,…...

23+ hour, 19+ min ago  (732+ words) WORCESTER " There is a Ghanaian sporting villain that still furrows brows and brings forth heavy groans all these years later. His name is Luis Su'rez, and in 2010 his goalline handball denied Ghana a goal in the dying minutes of a…...

1+ day, 42+ min ago  (224+ words) After two months of robust hiring, Massachusetts employers cut jobs in May, led by losses in construction, restaurants, and hotels. The state shed 2, 900 jobs last month, after a combined gain of 14, 600 jobs in March and April, according to federal data…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (323+ words) School officials remembered a Quincy teenager who drowned Saturday in a Milton pond as a standout student who earned "the respect of his classmates and teachers by being a man of great character." Kayron G. Costa, 18, died in a Boston hospital…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (211+ words) There's been at least one surprising attendee at Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's economic summits this spring: the top City Hall executive on the other side of the Charles, Cambridge city manager Yi-An Huang. During the latest one, held at Whoop's…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (687+ words) The state Supreme Judicial Court on Monday ruled that a proposal that would scrap the state's party primaries can advance to the November ballot, rejecting a challenge from members of the state Democratic Party's governing body that the measure violated…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (186+ words) Cody Nguyen, an eighth-grade boy who was pulled unresponsive from a pond in Andover, has died, Andover Public Schools announced in a statement Saturday. Nguyen, who attended Doherty Middle School, died Friday, the release said. Andover police and fire responded…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (308+ words) An 8th-grade teacher at Mc Call Middle School in Winchester is facing child pornography charges and has been placed on administrative leave, school officials said Friday. Jason Van Dinter was arraigned Friday in Lowell District Court on a charge of…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (647+ words) Up four flights of stairs, in a spacious, skylit apartment in downtown Lowell, stands a little piece of Manchester, England. Actually, it's a rather large piece of Manchester: a 10-foot tall, custom-printed canvas of the stark, Dickensian exterior of the…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (1162+ words) LOWELL " Tom Curtis sits in Le Lacheur Park on a warm June night. The 71-year-old, who was an usher for the Lowell Spinners when they were a minor league affiliate of the Red Sox, looks around the place, which is…...