A natural gas explosion in one of New England’s biggest cities on Friday leveled a strip club with a boom heard for miles and heavily damaged a dozen other buildings but didn’t kill anyone, authorities said. Firefighters, police officers and …
The family of a Worcester, Mass., man who died after he was arrested at a state police checkpoint in North Andover three years ago has settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed against three law enforcement agencies for $1.6 million. Officials …
The director of the Massachusetts Highway Safety Division lost her job Sunday after a newspaper reported that her driving record included seven accidents, four speeding violations and one failure to wear a seat belt. Secretary of Public Safety and Security …
The director of the Massachusetts Highway Safety Division has a bad driving that includes seven accidents, four speeding violations and one failure to wear a seatbelt. The Boston Globe reports that Sheila Burgess has 34 entries on her driving record …
Salem, Mass., police are investigating after a bizarre fender-bender in the city. Police say a woman told them she was driving on Hancock Street on Saturday night when a red pickup truck backing out of a side street struck the …
Police are looking for whoever dropped a 40-pound chunk of granite described as a boulder from an overpass and onto a Cape Cod dinner train’s locomotive. The boulder was dropped at about 8:30 p.m. Thursday in Sandwich as the Cape …
A Massachusetts court recently ruled in favor of insurer Lloyd’s in a dispute over a commercial property and general liability policy excluding coverage for independent contractors. The insured, a property development firm called Cable Mills LLC, and its insurance agency …
A new fire safety rule is taking effect in Massachusetts. State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan says that, starting Saturday, there’s a ban on wood landscaping mulch within 18 inches of the base of wood- or vinyl-sided buildings. Small residential buildings …
The family of an electrician who died in a 2010 Massachusetts propane explosion has settled a lawsuit against a propane distributor and a plumbing company for $7.5 million. A lawyer for the family of William Nichols says the family and …
An out-of-control box truck carrying bananas in southeastern Massachusetts has crashed into a natural gas main and ignited an explosion, setting fire to an 18th-century building that housed a tavern and destroying it. Firefighters say the truck crashed Sunday morning …