The Latest Breaking News from Massachusetts

If they’re in your area, you’ll know it from their loud droning, chirping and buzzing sounds. Cicadas from Brood XIV – one of the largest groups of cicadas that emerge from underground on a 13-year or 17-year cycle – are surfacing in May and June 2025 across 12 states. This…

Feeling happy isn’t just about personal choices—it’s also about where you live. The happiest states in America consistently rank high in well-being, community, and quality of life. If you’ve ever wondered why some places just seem to have happier people, you’re not alone. From access to nature to strong social…

But the ruling suggests prostitution clients could be convicted of sex trafficking in other circumstances.

A man living in Massachusetts who U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained in April after smashing the window of a car he was riding in with a hammer has been released

A federal judge has ordered the transfer of a Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher facing deportation from Louisiana, where she was detained by immigration authorities, to Massachusetts, where she has been charged with trying to smuggle frog embryos

Neighbors in Worcester, Massachusetts, banded together to thwart ICE deportation operation

A lawyer for a Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher charged with trying to smuggle frog embryos has asked that she be brought back to Massachusetts, three months after she was taken to a Louisiana immigration detention center

Massachusetts-born actor was known for starring opposite Elvis Presley, Cary Grant and John Wayne

A new video shows ICE breaking an SUV's window, throwing a man into the ground and handcuffing him on Mother's Day, after the man and his family attended church

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A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to attacking a flight attendant with a broken metal spoon and attempting to open an emergency door on a cross-country flight