Massachusetts

MIT and Dana-Farber reported the first total synthesis of verticillin A, isolated in 1970. N-sulfonylated variants, not the natural product, were the most potent against diffuse midline glioma cells in…

Customs flagged JetBlue pilot Jeremy Gudorf at Logan on a Huntersville child-exploitation warrant. A judge set $10,000 bail and let him keep his passport. He missed North Carolina, and the…

Former Quincy Elder Services director Thomas Clasby was sentenced to six months, ordered to repay $136,061.71, and later lost his city pension after admitting he stole senior-program funds.

Five Assumption University students confronted an Army specialist in a staged predator sting. A Worcester judge dismissed the kidnapping charges. Leftover counts became community service.

Kirk Rumford's husky, Odin, was shot on November 19, 2024, on a coyote call in Northbridge, Massachusetts. Chief Timothy Labrie ruled out punishment, and Dan Chauvin remains the animal control…

On August 16, 2024, Liza Phillips and Ted Rock shoved a stranded great white off Low Beach. Massachusetts later restricted the shore tackle used to target white sharks on Nantucket.

Suffolk County prosecutors said ten men ran a dogfighting business across New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Eighty-nine dogs were seized. The fighting charge topped out at four years.