WORCESTER ― Mayor Joseph M. Petty says the decision to close City Hall ahead of a May 13 meeting of the City Council followed "threats of violence" against city officials. A city spokesman ...

A woman is in custody after police said she used her SUV to try and get into a federal building in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Ferreira De Oliveira, 40, a native of Brazil, is being held at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island ...