11 Oct, 2026

A woman wasn’t allowed to bring her Frenchie on a plane. So she abandoned the dog at the airport and went on to a Mexican resort, police say.

National News After leaving the ticket counter, Allison Gaiser was seen on surveillance cameras pushing the dog in the stroller back toward a moving walkway enclosure, next to glass exit doors in the airport’s short-term parking lot. Allegheny County Police Department By Associated Press updated on August 25, 2023 | 10:24 AM PITTSBURGH (AP) — […]

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Mass. woman files class action lawsuit against Star Market for allegedly sending her marketing texts after she opted out

Local News It is illegal for companies to send consumers marketing text messages after they’ve opted out. They can be ordered to pay up to $1,500 per illegal text. Star Market is facing a class action lawsuit after it allegedly sent marketing text messages to a woman after she opted out. Todd Van Hoosear/Wikimedia Commons […]

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Taunton woman admits to bribing RMV employee to issue driver’s licenses without a road test

Politics Neta Centio took money from several learner’s permit holders and used CashApp to split the money with the road examiner, prosecutors said. The Brockton Registry of Motor Vehicles, where an internal investigation by MassDOT and the RMV determined that approximately 2,100 customers were given road test passing scores without taking the road test. Barry […]

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Belmont woman rescued, carried down N.H. mountain after suffering ankle injury

Local News New Hampshire Fish and Game officers and volunteers hiked her down the mountain in a stretcher. New Hampshire Fish and Game conservation officers and volunteers rescued a Massachusetts woman who twisted her ankle while hiking Mt. Willard over the weekend, the Fish and Game department reported in a press release. Karen Glover, 55, […]

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Firefighters rescue woman from sidewalk collapse outside Dorchester church

Local News The woman fell about 10 feet below street level into the church’s basement. She broke her leg in the fall. The sidewalk collapsed outside Bethlehem Temple Healing Church in Dorchester late Friday night. Boston Fire Department Boston firefighters rescued a woman who fell 10 feet after the sidewalk outside a Dorchester church collapsed […]

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Connecticut woman sentenced to 25 years in prison for murdering victim whose headless body was found in a park

Crime Casandra Nazario, 26, had entered a plea deal with prosecutors and testified against her codefendant, who was sentenced Aug. 2 to 55 years in prison. By Associated Press August 18, 2023 | 9:09 AM WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut woman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of a woman […]

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Quincy man accused of attacking a woman in the South End ordered held without bail

Crime Amos Sykes, 35, allegedly punched a woman in the head and tried to take off her clothes. He faces multiple charges. Amos Sykes was arraigned in Boston Municipal Court Monday for an alleged sexual attack on a woman on a South End street on Saturday. Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe A judge ordered that a […]

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Court documents: Woman allegedly threatened victim on social media before fatally stabbing her on Boston Common

Crime The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Monday that defendant Alyssa Partsch previously pleaded guilty to attacking a different woman with a knife in 2017. Alyssa Partsch, 30, is arraigned on a second-degree murder charge in Suffolk Superior Court on Monday. Suffolk County Superior Court Alyssa Partsch, the woman accused of fatally stabbing a […]

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Dorchester woman arrested in fatal stabbing of South Boston woman

Crime Jazreanna Sheppard, 21, was fatally stabbed July 20. She left behind a 2-year-old son, her family said. Boston police arrested a Dorchester woman over the weekend in connection with the fatal stabbing of a South Boston woman in July. Around 6 a.m. Saturday morning, officers arrested 30-year-old Alyssa Partsch for the murder of 21-year-old […]

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