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Tigers defenseman Holden commits to NCAA D3 Nichols College Bisons in Massachusetts

Tigers defenseman Holden commits to NCAA D3 Nichols College Bisons in Massachusetts

July 10, 2025 · 0 Comments The Aurora Junior A Tigers announced last week their veteran defenseman Christian Holden has committed to the NCAA D3 Nichols College Bisons. Holden is the third Tiger from the Class of 2025 to earn a US hockey...

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Ruling: Noncompetition Agreement Act Does Not Apply to Forfeiture Clauses

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Ruling: Noncompetition Agreement Act Does Not Apply to Forfeiture Clauses

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) recently clarified the scope of the Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act (MNAA). In Susan Miele v. Foundation Medicine, Inc., the SJC held the MNAA does not apply where a forfeiture clause is...

Two Powerball tickets sold in Massachusetts have each won $1 million

Two Powerball tickets sold in Massachusetts have each won $1 million

BOSTON — Check your tickets. Two $1 million winning tickets were sold in Massachusetts for Wednesday’s Powerball drawing, lottery officials said Thursday. One of the winning tickets was sold at Market Basket at 130 Water St. in Fitchburg. The...

Town-by-town reports: Highest rainfall totals in Massachusetts

Town-by-town reports: Highest rainfall totals in Massachusetts

WEYMOUTH, Mass. — An unrelenting summer storm brought a deluge of rain to eastern Massachusetts on Thursday, leading to flash flooding during the morning commute. Many areas were drenched by several inches of rain, highways and roads left...

Will high impact flooding events in Massachusetts become more common?

Will high impact flooding events in Massachusetts become more common?

Massachusetts is 2025’s Most Improved State for Business boosted by financial independence from D.C.

Massachusetts is 2025’s Most Improved State for Business boosted by financial independence from D.C.

Paul Revere statue in Boston Freedom Trail, a national landmark and major tourist attraction in Boston, Massachusetts. Jorgeantonio | Istock | Getty Images For 400 years, the spirit of independence has served the people of Massachusetts well. In...

Bulletin Board: Westford’s Maddie Smith wins 92nd Massachusetts Girls Junior Amateur Championship

Bulletin Board: Westford’s Maddie Smith wins 92nd Massachusetts Girls Junior Amateur Championship

Westford’s Maddie Smith captured the title at the 92nd Massachusetts Girls Junior Amateur Golf Championship on Thursday at Crumpin-Fox Club in Bernardston. PHOTO BY DAVID COLT/MASS GOLF The semifinals and championship match of the 92nd...

Massachusetts legislature approves automatic IRA for small businesses

Massachusetts legislature approves automatic IRA for small businesses

The Massachusetts legislature has passed a budgetary bill that would establish the Massachusetts Secure Choice Savings Program, creating an automatic enrollment payroll deduction IRA. Under H.4240, employers with 25 or more employees who don’t...

Massachusetts Abortion Clinics Hit Hard as New Law Slashes Federal Funding

Massachusetts Abortion Clinics Hit Hard as New Law Slashes Federal Funding

BOSTON, MA- The largest abortion mill in the country is poised to lose at least $14 million in taxpayer subsidies in Massachusetts alone as a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) passed by Congress last week and signed into law by President...

Rainfall reports: More than 6 inches south of Boston

Rainfall reports: More than 6 inches south of Boston

Massachusetts rainfall reports: More than 6 inches south of Boston I’M METEOROLOGIST A.J. BURNETT. WE CONTINUE WITH THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ANOTHER 45 MINUTES HERE, COVERING THE AREA AROUND BRAINTREE QUINCY DOWN THROUGH RANDOLPH, OUT TOWARD...

More workers in Massachusetts are looking for work

More workers in Massachusetts are looking for work

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Massachusetts rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased to 7,115 in the week ending July 5, up from...

Patrick Kilcoyne and 2023 champion Ryan Downes reach Massachusetts Amateur final

Patrick Kilcoyne and 2023 champion Ryan Downes reach Massachusetts Amateur final

Patrick Kilcoyne and 2023 champion Ryan Downes advanced Thursday to the 36-hole final of the 117th Massachusetts Amateur on Friday at GreatHorse in Hampden. Downes, a sophomore at Vanderbilt who is from Longmeadow and plays out of GreatHorse,...

Ryan Downes, Patrick Kilcoyne to meet in Massachusetts Amateur final

Ryan Downes, Patrick Kilcoyne to meet in Massachusetts Amateur final

Ryan Downes and Patrick Kilcoyne will meet Friday with the 117th Massachusetts Amateur Championship on the line. The pair advanced with quarterfinal and semifinal match play victories Thursday at GreatHorse in Hampden. Downes, a GreatHorse member...

Illegal immigrant in Massachusetts who stole ID of dead child and worked as firefighter sentenced to prison

Illegal immigrant in Massachusetts who stole ID of dead child and worked as firefighter sentenced to prison

A Vietnamese man living here illegally who stole the identity of a dead child, using it to work as a firefighter and paramedic, has been sentenced to federal prison. Truong Nguyen, 50, who has been living in Braintree, was sentenced in Boston...

Massachusetts bill would ban federal immigration agents from wearing masks on duty

Massachusetts bill would ban federal immigration agents from wearing masks on duty

President Donald Trump slammed a pair of Democratic lawmakers for introducing a bill that would require ICE and CBP agents to not wear face masks. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A new bill in Massachusetts aims to require U.S....

Tibetans in Massachusetts celebrate 14th Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday

Tibetans in Massachusetts celebrate 14th Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday

A couple hundred Tibetans put on traditional clothes and gathered at the Kurukulla Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies in Medford, Massachusetts, on Sunday morning. They were there to celebrate the 14th Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday. Tenzin Gyatso,...

Flash floods possible as heavy rain pours onto Massachusetts Thursday morning

Flash floods possible as heavy rain pours onto Massachusetts Thursday morning

Massachusetts is expected to see what forecasters are deeming very heavy rainfall Thursday morning, prompting a flood watch to be issued for much of the state. As much as 4 inches of rain could fall over Eastern Massachusetts, Connecticut and...

Massachusetts Town Moving Ahead With Reparations Plan Despite Funding Questions

Massachusetts Town Moving Ahead With Reparations Plan Despite Funding Questions

A Massachusetts town is moving forward with a plan to set up reparations for residents who say they are still affected by slavery despite already questioning how it will be properly funded. The Amherst Town Council has unanimously approved the...

Two winning $1 million Powerball tickets sold in Massachusetts

Two winning $1 million Powerball tickets sold in Massachusetts

Two winning $1 million Powerball tickets were sold in Massachusetts for Wednesday‘s drawing for a $217 million jackpot. The winning numbers for the drawing were 5, 9, 25, 28, 69 and Powerball: 5. One of the winning tickets, which matched the first...

Karen Read asks Massachusetts court to throw out wrongful death lawsuit

Karen Read asks Massachusetts court to throw out wrongful death lawsuit

After her not-guilty verdict, Karen Read was asked if she had 'any words for the O'Keefe family.' NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Karen Read, cleared last month of murder charges in the death of her former boyfriend, Boston Police...

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