An investigation is underway after a fire ignited inside the New Bedford School Department building Thursday evening.

Come 2027, there will be a new top prosecutor in Bristol County, Mass. State Rep. Chris Markey, a Dartmouth Democrat, defeated Republican Seth Aitken in the election, ...

A gunman who killed a woman before being fatally shot by a security guard at Citibank’s sprawling office complex in Tampa, ...

People may have been getting high off cannabis earlier than previously thought — at least 2,800 years ago, a new study ...

Florida and Alabama plan to execute two men Thursday for killing older adults during home robberies, just hours after Indiana put a prisoner to death in the first of three lethal injections ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Police are responding to a serious crash that’s blocking a portion of Waterman Avenue in East ...

Rabies is a potentially deadly viral disease that typically spreads through bites or scratches from an infected animal, ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that he’ll change all death sentences in the state to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Newsom’s decision comes ...

Catcher Bo Naylor, a former teammate of Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, testified Thursday at ...

The blue wave ensures that two Rhode Islanders will both serve as chairman of “A” committees simultaneously for the first ...

Newly-released body-worn camera footage shows the moment a man shot two Fall River officers earlier this year.

Thunderstorms with heavy rain caused flash flooding in parts of north Georgia overnight Wednesday into Thursday, with dangerous conditions making water rescues difficult.