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PLAINVILLE, Mass. (AP) _ Police have tentatively identified the three people killed when their small plane crashed into a Massachusetts home as a Tennessee doctor, his wife and college-age daughter. Plainville police say they believe the pilot of the Beechcraft BE36 plane that crashed Sunday was Joseph Richard Kalister, an emergency room physician, his wife, Betty, and daughter, Nicole, who was 18

Fairhaven school administrators are working to console students at the high school after the tragic loss of a fellow classmate. 18-year-old Meghan Sargent, a graduating senior at Fairhaven High, was killed after the car she was in, driven by 21-year-old Brooklyn Rodrigues, crashed on Route 6 in Mattapoisett Monday night...

A worker at a New Bedford trash hauling and recycling company has been killed on the job. A spokesman for the Bristol district attorney's office says 64-year-old Manuel Viera was walking in ABC Disposal's parking lot at about 4:30 p.m...

Associated Press - Officials say sparks from a welding operation next to a Boston brownstone caused the blaze that killed two firefighters last week. Boston Police Commissioner William Evans says officials are confident the fire was not intentional...

Update 6:30 Metro News - Two firefighters are dead and at least a dozen people are injured in a huge fire in downtown Boston. A Boston TV station reports one of the firefighters was carried out of the burning apartment building in cardiac arrest...

A U.S. Marine sergeant from Abington is making his final trip home. The body of Sgt. Daniel Vasselian is scheduled to return to Massachusetts on Tuesday. He will be escorted by state police from Logan International Airport to Abington at about noon...

A local marine has been killed in action in Afghanistan. According to the Department of Defense, 19-year-old Lance Cpl. Matthew Rodriguez of Fairhaven died yesterday while conducting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan...

The bear shot and killed by Environmental Police in Newton Sunday morning was about a year old and weighed 125-pounds.

In an incident that feels all too close to home, a British Soldier was run down by a couple of radical Muslims in England to get revenge for the deaths of many Muslims in the Middle East. WARNING: Graphic video.

Tragedy in Brighton, Massachusetts as a Boston University student has been killed in an apparent hit and run that may have involved an MBTA bus.