18+ hour, 25+ min ago   (732+ words) LOWELL — A man is behind bars after being accused of stabbing a woman three times in the face, arm and leg at an apartment at the City View Towers on Wednesday, causing “permanent disfigurement,” according to police. After the stabbing,…...

7+ hour, 14+ min ago   (611+ words) Massachusetts is among dozens of states that don’t require 9/11 to be taught in schools, leaving students without knowledge about “perhaps the most transformative day in the country’s history.” That’s according to Pat Bavis, the chairman of the Massachusetts 9/11 Fund’s education…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1076+ words) By MICHELLE L. PRICE and LISA MASCARO Republicans know they are up against history, which traditionally rebuffs the party in power during midterms, but they’re relying on Trump’s personal appeal to voters. Vance, with a primetime speaking slot right before the…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (465+ words) The Trump administration’s policy of holding immigrants without a chance for release on bond is illegal and “harkens back to some of the darkest moments in our country’s history,” including the mass detention of Japanese Americans during World War II,…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (587+ words) The “known crack cocaine user” accused of firing more than 60 rounds from a rifle at motorists on Cambridge’s Memorial Drive has pleaded not guilty to dozens of new charges stemming from the chaotic May terror. Middlesex Superior Court Judge Michael…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (538+ words) Massachusetts’ highest court has issued a public reprimand of state district court Judge Shelley Joseph for her part in the escape from the courthouse of a suspect wanted by ICE in 2018. The reprimand represents an end to the legal quagmire…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (836+ words) Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes declined in August to their slowest annual pace in more than a year as home shoppers grappled with rising mortgage rates and home prices. Existing home sales fell 2% last month from July to a seasonally…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (510+ words) The case dates back to 2018 when Judge Shelley Joseph was accused of colluding with the immigrant’s attorney and a court officer to allow him to escape out a back door of the courthouse after a hearing on charges that included…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (552+ words) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in Canada on Thursday for talks with Prime Minister Mark Carney, his latest international trip aimed at locking in future support for the fight against Russia’s invasion. Ukraine is under pressure from Russia’s air war,…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (777+ words) The price for Brent crude, the international standard, rose above $105 a barrel. U.S. stock futures fell, with the S&P 500 down 0.5% and the Nasdaq off by 1.1%. A report showed that inflation in the U.S. remains stubbornly high on the wholesale level. Meanwhile,…...