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Ryan Evans, 27, of South Yarmouth, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly attempting to sexually assault a 5-year-old. Yarmouth Police Department

A sample of mosquitoes in the town of Blackstone in Worcester County tested positive for West Nile virus, officials said Wednesday.

The Boston Police Department is looking for 11-year-old Lenny Granadao of East Boston who is autistic. He was last seen around 1 p.m. on Wednesday in the area of Prescott Street in East Boston.

First Literacy has awarded over $40,000 in grant funds to nonprofits across Massachusetts providing adult basic education services, including criminal

The former owner of a Fall River cleaning company has been sentenced to one year in jail for performing unlicensed commercial hood cleaning services

Two men from California were arrested on Monday in an undercover drug trafficking operation in Andover resulting in the seizure of $10.5 million

Federal and state officials attended the Nantucket Select Board meeting on Wednesday to address ongoing concerns about the damaged wind turbine that has cast debris onto the island's beaches since early July.

An East Boston man was sentenced to federal prison Tuesday after he pleaded guilty in the spring to possessing and distributing child pornography, according to the US attorney's office.

A yellow tabby cat that escaped a fast-moving fire at a Chelsea apartment building early Wednesday will soon be reunited with its owner, according to the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals-Angell.

Framingham State University's library is one of 50 nationally, and the first in Massachusetts, selected to host “Americans and the Holocaust,” a traveling exhibition that opens on campus Tuesday.