Massachusetts is ringing in 2026 with new laws and regulations — reshaping everything from cannabis to hunting rules. While some changes will take effect starting this year, others are still on the horizon, but each promise to touch residents’ lives. Here’s what you can expect...
FOXBOROUGH – The special bond started in the offseason.Efton Chism III showed up to Gillette Stadium early at 5 a.m., looking to gain an edge. That’s when the undrafted free agent noticed his veteran teammate Mack Hollins doing the same thing. Hollins was a willing...
With the Celtics holding an 11-point lead against the Kings, Jaylen Brown picked up his sixth foul with 2:09 left in the fourth quarter. It was looking like the C’s would need to close out the victory without their best player. But occasionally, teams challenge...
FOXBOROUGH - As Drake Maye goes, so go the Patriots.The way the season has played out for the 13-3 Patriots, who face the Miami Dolphins Sunday in the regular season finale, that’s given. Maye, however, can’t be one-man band. If the Patriots are going to...
Dear Abby: My husband and I have been together 23 years, married for almost nine. We are in our 60s. It’s the second marriage for both of us. I retired due to having to move to another state for his job. I make friends wherever...
Dear Eric: I had a friend with whom I texted frequently with excellent tips and attached articles relating important matters to him and never got words of appreciation for my thoughts. Many times, I expressed my disappointment and tried to let him understand that I...
Dear Annie: Now that my husband and I are in our 70s, it feels as if our social world has shrunk to the size of a postage stamp. Friends have moved away to be near their children, others are dealing with health issues, and a...
By Vince Gasparinisyracuse.comSYRACUSE, N.Y. — Police Officer John Canestrare found a woman lying on the ground outside a burning house Friday morning and started giving chest compressions.The woman had burns, Canestrare told syracuse.com | The Post-Standard. He said one of her feet was severely broken,...
By Cristóbal ReyesOrlando SentinelST. CLOUD, Fla. — When a mental health call came in to St. Cloud police last fall of a man digging into the street with a fixed-blade knife, officers weren’t the only ones to respond.A drone, deployed and piloted from the real-time...
Overnight precipitation left several inches of snow across Massachusetts, and it was still coming down in some areas on Thursday morning.A winter weather advisory remains in place until 1 p.m. Thursday for the eastern slopes of the Berkshires in Franklin and Hampshire Counties, southeastern Massachusetts,...
