The five-year-old was given a badge, handcuffs, and even caught an assault suspect on his first day on the job.

Via Today.com Boston and all the surrounding areas are officially on lock down today as police search for marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19,  who is on the loose after his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a standoff with police in Watertown, Mass.  The standoff left one cop dead and another one injured. Now police are […]

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A baby shower in Stoughton, Mass., ended in Drake/Chris Brown fashion as some 200 people began brawling with each other, the Boston Herald reports. SEE…

The department of health in Massachusetts has announced that HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death for African-American women in the state. It was also found that more than half of all AIDS cases there consist of black women specifically — most of whom became infected by their intimate partners. Dr. Bela Bashar, a clinical […]

Police in Massachusetts are investigating the mysterious disappearance of Trudie Hall, a pregnant Nantucket woman who has been missing for almost a month. Media reports suggest Hall may have been married to two men and leading a double life, but those who know her best say all that matters is getting her home safe.

The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research presents its annual lecture series at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown this evening, beginning at 5 pm.