In Chicopee, Massachusetts, you may notice a rather unexpected police vehicle making the rounds: an ice cream truck. The truck was the brainchild of Officer Travis Odiorne of the Chicopee Police Department. “One of my main goals was to try to bridge the gap between police work, our department and our community,” Odiorne told Fox...
Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor, who was suspended in the wake of Karen Read’s mistrial, is not expected to be called as a witness in another high-profile case in the state. Prosecutors preparing for the trial against Brian Walshe, who is accused of killing and dismembering his wife in 2023, informed Norfolk Superior Court on...
A Massachusetts high school is refusing to play another school’s girls’ field hockey team due to biological male players on its roster. The Dighton-Rehoboth Regional School District released a statement to media members on Tuesday saying that they’re forfeiting the girls’ field hockey game against Somerset Berkley Regional High School. The decision to forfeit, which...
Sarah Cox, a junior at Northeastern University in Boston and member of the Phi Omega chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority, fell out of a second-story window during a party in March 2023 and received “catastrophic” injuries as a result. Now, Cox’s family is suing the property manager of the rental house from which...
A team of dedicated researchers were stunned after they recently came face-to-face with a ship that hadn’t been seen in 168 years. The discovery of the steamship Le Lyonnais was recently announced by Atlantic Wreck Salvage (AWS). AWS, which owns and operates the vessel D/V Tenacious, found the ship off the coast of southeastern Massachusetts....
Welfare recipients in Massachusetts spent taxpayer dollars while traveling to tropical vacation destinations and in states located thousands of miles away from New England, according to a new investigation by The Boston Herald. Public records requested by the Herald showed taxpayer-funded EBT cards were used in Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, California, Florida, Alaska,...
New England packs a lot of U.S.A. in a little corner of America. Its six states combined would rank only 18th among the 50 states. Visitors driving north up Interstate 95 can leave New York – not New England – and drive clear across Connecticut and Rhode Island, north through Massachusetts, zip through coastal New...
A Marine Corps veteran is taking on longtime Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, attempting to flip the seat red by “running on the American dream.” “I am the living, breathing embodiment of the American dream and everything that’s possible in a great free country like ours. And I got in this race because I see that...
The Massachusetts woman accused of fatally running over her police officer boyfriend in January 2022 is claiming she’s been framed. Karen Read, 44, sat down for her first media interview this week, speaking with ABC’s “20/20” about what she characterized as a police conspiracy to blame her for the mysterious death of her boyfriend, John...
A former mafia hitman has been sentenced for the prison killing of crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger. Fotios “Freddy” Geas appeared in court on Friday after making a deal with prosecutors to change his plea to guilty regarding his role in the murder of Bulger. Geas was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the...
