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Massachusetts residents need to keep an eye on their kids and pets when spending time outside this spring and summer.

Norfolk police and public schools officials are investigating alleged threats made by a juvenile outside one of the town's two elementary schools on Monday, according to a joint release from the department and the district.

A 23-year-old man has been charged with secretly filming an 11-year-old girl changing in her Norfolk bedroom last spring, after he was accused of filming girls in a Wrentham Outlets bathroom last October.

Authorities in Massachusetts say they are investigating an apparent murder-suicide involving a father and his son.

Associated Press - A father of two who authorities say was brutally beaten during an unprovoked attack at a Quincy bar last week has died from his injuries after his family decided to take him off life support.

A Marine who was declared a deserter nearly 10 years ago after disappearing in Iraq and then returning to the U.S. claiming he had been kidnapped, only to disappear again, is back in U.S. custody, officials said Sunday. Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, 34, turned himself in and was being flown Sunday from an undisclosed location in the Middle East to Norfolk, Va...

A cook at a Massachusetts school who allegedly threatened to shoot co-workers in a dispute over cookies has pleaded not guilty. Wendy Ferris of Cumberland, Rhode Island was released on $5,000 bail after pleading not guilty Monday to threatening to commit a crime...

A judge in Boston has ordered state officials to provide a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation for a transsexual inmate.