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BOSTON (AP) — Court records show that a Vermont man who spent a week on a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean before he was rescued recently was a suspect in the unsolved 2013 killing of his grandfather in Connecticut. Nathan Carman, of Vernon, Vermont, was rescued Sunday...

BOSTON (AP) - A Vermont man who spent a week at sea in a life raft before being rescued by a passing freighter will be reunited with his family in Boston, while his mother is still unaccounted for and presumed dead. Nathan Carman, of Vernon, Vermont, is expected to arrive in Boston on Tuesday morning aboard the freighter that rescued him off the coast of Massachusetts on Sunday...

BOSTON (AP) _ The U.S. Coast Guard says one of two Connecticut boaters who had been missing for a week after leaving a Rhode Island marina was found alive, drifting on an inflatable life raft off the coast of Massachusetts. The Coast Guard on Friday suspended its search for 54-year-old Linda Carman and her 22-year-old son, Nathan of Middletown, Connecticut...

A New Bedford man is arrested after police say he stole a car in Connecticut. According to the New Haven Register, 18-year-old Esteban Melendez was arrested early Tuesday morning after surrendering to a Branford, Connecticut police officer in the driver's seat of a 1999 Honda Civic...

BOSTON (AP) _ The federal Environmental Protection Agency is warning that Friday's air quality in parts of New England could be unhealthy for some people. The regional branch of the EPA says air in coastal Connecticut, all of Rhode Island, southeastern Massachusetts and southern and central coastal Maine could have exceed the Federal air quality standard for ozone...

BOSTON (AP) _ All six New England governors say fighting the social stigma associated with addiction is key to battling the opioid crisis raging across the region, claiming thousands of lives. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker participated at the Harvard Medical School forum Tuesday with Vermont Gov...

A fugitive from justice out of Connecticut is arrested in New Bedford. Police say Connecticut Parole Officers notified the New Bedford Police Department that 43-year-old Todd Tirrell Billins may be in New Bedford in violation of parole...

Over 70,000 pounds of pepperoni pizza is being recalled by Whole Foods after the product was labeled improperly.

General Electric was offered a list of incentives to relocate its corporate headquarters to Boston. That's according to a memorandum of understanding between GE and state and city officials released Wednesday to The Associated Press and other media outlets following a public records request...

The family of Pro Football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford says signs of the degenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy were found in his brain after his death. In a statement released through NBC News on Wednesday, the family says Gifford suffered from unspecified ''cognitive and behavioral symptoms'' in his later years...