Due to the expected temperature drop for this evening, the overflow will be opened tonight. All inquiries can be forwarded to Sister Rose House and 1-800-homeless. All guests should plan to arrive for 6pm and the cutoff time will be 8:30pm. Dinner will be served between 6pm and 7:30pm and …

It’s that time of year where cold nights and mornings have arrived and we either push the button on those self-starters or race out to start up the car, and the heat, and race back inside to the warmth. However, idling your car longer than five minutes in the Commonwealth …

Hundreds of volunteers and more than 2,500 Home Depot buckets were filled with items donated by the Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation during a massive distribution event held in Fall River. Through its partnership with the Massachusetts Military Support Foundation, the items, which range from warm winter jackets, hats, …

Grade crossing improvements are one step in early action construction for South Coast Rail. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) is announcing that 24-hour construction work will begin in New Bedford at the Tarkiln Hill Road grade crossing at 6 a.m., Saturday, November 16, and continuing through to Monday afternoon, …

Last night, at approximately 5:00 p.m., Trooper Kyle Reed, assigned to the Troop H Community Action Team, was patrolling Route 24 southbound in Avon. As he was approaching Exit 19B he observed a blue Volvo V70 traveling very slow in the right travel lane. Trooper Reed closed distance on the …

At approximately 12:40 p.m. today, Massachusetts State Police Troop H Headquarters was notified that a woman had entered the ocean off Wollaston Beach in Quincy and appeared to be in distress about 100 yards offshore, being swept by the current. MSP Troopers and Quincy Police Officers responded, as did Quincy …

Massachusetts State Police Troopers from State Police-Middleborough continue to investigate this morning’s single-vehicle crash in West Bridgewater that resulted in the fatality of a Millis man. Just before 2:30 a.m., a 2005 Toyota Corolla was traveling southbound on Route 24 in West Bridgewater when, for reasons that remain under investigation, …

Massachusetts State Troopers from State Police-Middleborough continue to investigate this morning’s crash that resulted in the fatality of a Good Samaritan on Route 495 in Raynham. Shortly before 1 a.m. a 2019 Audi Q7 SUV that was traveling on Route 495 southbound in Raynhan struck a deer in the area …

Massachusetts State Police Troopers assigned to the Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section this morning located and arrested a youth hockey coach wanted for allegedly sexually abusing children in multiple jurisdictions. MSP VFAS Troopers arrested CHRISTOPHER M. PREW, 33, without incident at an address on Shirley Street in Winthrop. …

Five new cases of vaping-related illnesses have been reported to Massachusetts health officials bringing the total number in Massachusetts to 73 and nation-wide to over 2,000. Nationally, of the 2,000 cases reported to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40 have died of which 3 were from Massachusetts. …