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Jobs will be cut over the next several weeks at the Boston Globe’s printing, mailing and delivery facility in Taunton.

LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) _ Hotplates are being distributed to residents who have been left without gas service more than a week after gas explosions and fires rocked the Merrimack Valley. The Boston Globe reports that members of the Massachusetts National Guard started giving out thousands of hotplates to residents Saturday morning as part of a massive relief effort in Lawrence, Andover and North Ando

The pressure in the natural gas pipelines prior to a series of explosions and fires in Massachusetts last week was 12 times higher than it should have been.

LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) _ Massachusetts officials are warning of a scam targeting people seeking to help those displaced by the natural gas explosions and fires that rocked the Merrimack Valley north of Boston. Local officials in Lawrence and Andover say residents have reported receiving calls from individuals falsely claiming they're collecting donations on behalf of a local firefighter's associatio

(Lawrence, MA) -- The governor of Massachusetts is declaring a state of emergency following deadly gas explosions in three towns north of Boston. Governor Charlie Baker on Friday said the company behind the explosions, Columbia Gas, is being removed from local operations...

A series of gas explosions has killed a teenager, injured at least 10 other people and ignited fires in at least 39 homes in three communities north of Boston.

(Associated Press) - Authorities say an explosion at a Dow Chemical plant in northeastern Massachusetts critically injured four people and damaged the building. Firefighters, paramedics and police responded to the plant in North Andover at about 2:30 p...

A North Andover High School student is being punished for doing the right thing. Two weeks ago, Erin Cox responded to a call from a friend saying she was at a party and too drunk to drive. Cox arrived at the party completely sober just as the police showed up to arrest several teens for underage drinking...