Nick Stoico

WORCESTER — About two decades ago, Nicole Bell-Peña, then 24, left her home in Stoughton and came to Worcester seeking treatment for an opioid addiction.

Two North Atlantic right whales entangled in lines were spotted in waters off Nantucket earlier this month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday.

Vineyard Wind said the work resumed on Saturday and continued through the weekend after the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement approved plans to proceed with the installation of three turbine blades in October.

Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury woman charged with killing her three small children last year, will face trial next December, where her attorney plans to pursue an insanity defense.

Wellesley police officer who was first to the scene says, "At the end of the day, I’m just doing my job."

Federal prosecutors say the man allegedly stole money from one account and then replaced the money with stolen funds from another account to cover up the theft.

The state's police oversight board has suspended a Boston police captain for five days stemming from a 2019 confrontation in Dorchester in which he was accused of knocking a man to the ground.

For the first time in almost 20 years, this week the beginning of Hanukkah — the eight-day Jewish festival of lights — falls on Christmas Day, a rare quirk of the calendar that has occurred only four times since 1900.

Boston Archbishop Richard Henning will attend a Mass in Franklin on Christmas Eve, two months after a fire broke out at St. Mary's Church that is being investigated as arson.

As officials investigate whether officers used technology to fast-forward through portions of mandatory online training sessions, state officials now say hundreds of officers completed the training too quickly.