24-year-old Mario Rosa was shot to death in his apartment building’s vestibule in Revere, Massachusetts on Saturday. Police found him with multiple gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead at the scene. According to The Boston Globe, one of the neighbors in the area says that the building where Rosa…
Investigators are trying to determine whether the height of the treetops close to the Orange Municipal Airport played a factor in the Massachusetts plane crash that claimed the life of one woman on New Year’s Day. The victim, Jessica L. Fay, was the daughter of Steven T. Fay, who was…
With weather conditions sure to deposit more snow in the region, property owners will have to work extra hard to make sure that Massachusetts slip and fall accidents do not happen on their premises. While preventing this type of premises liability accident is a challenge every winter, the Supreme Judicial…
Tom Gatzunis, the commissioner of the Department of Public Safety in Massachusetts wants to ban water ball amusement rides. While a water ball ban would be outside this reach of his authority, he is asking the state Legislature and Governor Patrick to extend the scope of his power. Gatzunis issued…
A person was fatally injured on the southbound side of Kendall Square station in Cambridge today, an MBTA spokesperson told the Boston Globe. It happened around 11:30 a.m., and Red Line service has now resumed. It had been shut off between South Boston and Harvard Square and shuttle buses were…
The family of Vincent Cilia has settled their Boston wrongful death lawsuit against the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and a number of contractors for $9 million. Cilia, a Massachusetts state trooper, suffered fatal injuries July 2005 when he was thrown off his motorcycle and struck the handrails in a Big Dig…
Yesterday evening, a man was hit by an MBTA commuter rail train in Lynn, the Boston Globe reported. It is alleged that the man was on the tracks when the Newburyport/Rockport line train hit him. He was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center by Medflight, and his condition is…
A young girl stopped breathing while inside a water toy attraction at the Pump ‘n’ Jump store at Independence Mall in Kingston. The store allowed children to climb into and walk or float in an inflatable 6-foot ball. It is a popular toy, and the Cape Cod Mall in Hyannis…
Early Sunday morning, the second armed robbery in three days near Harvard campus occurred. Kai Robert Kruger, a 21-year-old Cambridge man, shot at a police officer after robbing three Harvard freshmen. Before the police arrived, Kruger stole the students’ credit cards, wallets and cell phones. Police spotted a man acting…
There was a fire in the Downtown Crossing MBTA station Saturday night that caused evacuations. It started around the wheel and firefighters extinguished it and cleared the scene. There are no reported injuries as of yet. Many times when there are fires, injuries can be less apparent. For example, smoke…