Former congressional candidate Gary Dodds' latest arrest followed a complaint that he had kidnapped and threatened a woman, police records show.

Weymouth school officials spent more than a year hammering out a contract with local teachers -- and now they want to ask taxpayers for help paying for it.

Less than a week after six police officers were laid off in Fitchburg, a Boston man was shot and killed at a downtown block party, but the police chief says the layoffs had no effect on the incident.

Police are searching for a Wayland teen who was last seen walking in the woods toward her home.

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High gas prices may mean fewer families will be headed to the beach or the mountains this summer, but rising prices likely won't be keeping wealthy people from missing out on vacation.

The City Council in Franklin, New Hampshire, votes Monday night on whether to remove almost half of the city's street lights.

With the recreational boating season getting into full swing, some boat and marina owners across northern New England are less worried about the cost of gas than the type of fuel that's going into their fuel tanks this holiday weekend.

Two people are dead and several others injured after a violent night in Boston.

A 53-year-old Maine man faces a felony drug charge after police in New Hampshire say they found a pound of cocaine hidden in his underwear.

The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed

A group of youths allegedly attacked a dad and his family on the Fourth of July after accusing them of being Yankees fans.

A 3-year-old boy was severely burned on Friday by fireworks used in an illegal display in Leominster.

An expansive red tide has abated, allowing the state to reopen some of its most productive shellfish beds.