Abbey Niezgoda is a reporter for necn / NBC Boston, covering local news in Massachusetts and the Boston area. With a focus on delivering accurate and timely information, Abbey has covered a wide range of stories including crime, court cases, human interest stories, and local events. Her work has been featured on NBC Boston Stations, NBC Connecticut, New England Cable News, and NBC DFW.
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Abbey Niezgoda primarily covers evolving local stories, breaking news, and government announcements within Massachusetts and Boston. Her themes mainly revolve around crime, government & politics, and entertainment news.
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By: Abbey Niezgoda
The clock is ticking for Steward Health Care now that Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is giving the financially troubled company an ultimatum. She wants the CEO to produce financial records by Friday or get out of the hospital business in the state. Steward Health Care owns nine hospitals in Massachusetts. Congressman Stephen Lynch toured two of them on Wednesday and…
By: Abbey Niezgoda
One week after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos are considered children under state law, the decision is putting the future of IVF treatments at risk. While clinics in Alabama start to pause fertility treatments as a result of the decision, patients in Massachusetts said they are concerned about what could come next. “The last few days, I just…
By: Abbey Niezgoda, Alysha Palumbo
The Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused of leaking military secrets online changed his plea to guilty at a federal court hearing in Boston. Jack Teixeira admitted sharing information about the war in Ukraine and other sensitive topics on the social media platform Discord. Under the plea agreement struck with prosecutors, Teixeira will spend at least 11 years in prison and…
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is reviewing whether a Weymouth woman's decision to take home her dog after a veterinarian recommended euthanasia could constitute animal cruelty
By: Mike Pescaro, Abbey Niezgoda
A man faces decades in prison after being found guilty in the shooting death of another man last year outside a bar in Manchester, New Hampshire. The killing of 24-year-old Timothy Pouliot on Jan. 29, 2023, outside The Goat Bar and Grill was caught on camera. In December, a Hillsborough County Superior Court jury convicted 23-year-old Salem resident John Delee…
By: Abbey Niezgoda
A major facelift is coming to the Massachusetts Turnpike, one that transit advocates are calling a game-changer — and which commuters hope won’t lead to more traffic. The state won a huge federal grant this week for what is known as the Allston Multimodal Project, which would flatten and realign part of I-90 in Allston, construct a new MBTA station…
The 13 paintings stolen during a heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum have never been recovered, despite extensive efforts to find them and a reward associated with the case
By: Abbey Niezgoda, Asher Klein
Construction work has been halted on a skyscraper over Boston's South Station a day amid an investigation into a steel beam that fell more than 20 stories Wednesday.
The robust tenor voice that belts out the national anthem before puck drop at TD Garden is now asking for votes in Essex County. Todd Angilly, voice of “The Star Spangled Banner” (and occasionally “O Canada”) at Boston Bruins games since he took over for singer Rene Rancourt in 2019, works a state job by day as director of workforce…
By: Mike Pescaro, Abbey Niezgoda
A former Massachusetts State Police trooper has been found guilty of 14 charges related to the domestic assault of his then-girlfriend, who was also a trooper with the department.
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