Michael Rosenfield

Police in Webster, Massachusetts, have arrested 68-year-old Walter Fanion of Southbridge after a girl under 14 was kidnapped at Memorial Beach

Marshfield appears unlikely to draw a state lawsuit right away after its Town Meeting on Monday reportedly rejected a plan that would have complied with new zoning requirements for communities near MBTA service. Town Meeting shot down an 84-acre zoning change by a 169-289 vote, according to The Patriot Ledger, which reported that Marshfield’s town counsel told residents he expected…

Pro-Palestinian encampments have popped up across campus lawns at MIT, Harvard University, Emerson and other Boston area colleges.

Sgt. Ian Taylor, 49, was working a detail at the intersection of Boston Road at Pollard Street when he was struck by an excavator

An 84-year-old man was arrested in connection to a stabbing in East Boston on Friday afternoon.

Cheryl Masucci, a deaf woman from East Boston, was stabbed Friday afternoon at the Brandywyne Village apartments, where she lives

Thursday is sentencing day for Adam Montgomery, the New Hampshire man convicted of killing his daughter. The disappearance of Harmony Montgomery made national headlines. The two fathers of Harmony’s half-brother, Jamison, are raising red flags about Thursday’s hearing. Jamison’s adoptive parents, Johnathon and Blair, say they deserve to be among the family members making a victim impact statement. “It’s important…

It’s been 30 years since Stephen and Anne Brodie faced their daughter’s killer in court. Now, they’re getting ready to see him again at a parole hearing. Beth Brodie, the couple’s 15-year-old daughter, was savagely beaten in Groveland, Massachusetts, in 1992. Richard Baldwin, a 16-year-old, attacked her with a baseball bat inside a friend’s home down the street from where…

The family of a teenage girl who was beaten to death more than 30 years ago in Groveland, Massachusetts, is fighting against her killer’s pursuit of parole. Richard Baldwin was convicted in the murder of 15-year-old Beth Brodie after he attacked her with a baseball bat in 1992. As Baldwin walked into his parole hearing on Thursday afternoon, a sea…

Payton Taylor, a 22-year-old Berklee College of Music student, was walking near the school when a stranger attacked her in broad daylight the day before her graduation