QUINCY, Mass. (AP) – Vandals spray-painted swastikas on several landmarks in downtown Quincy and painted over the Jesus figure in a nativity scene in front of city hall, police said.It was the second time in as many years that the nativity scene has been defaced. Last year, a 17-year-old was charged with stealing the baby […]

BOSTON (AP) – A man who fled the country six years ago after allegedly driving through an intersection while drunk and fatally injuring an East Bridgewater woman has been detained by police in Kenya, prosecutors said Thursday.Karoli Muliro, 48, allegedly hit Julie Adams with his van as she was crossing a street on her way […]

QUINCY, Mass. (AP) – Vandals spray-painted swastikas on several landmarks in downtown Quincy and painted over the Jesus figure in a nativity scene in front of city hall, police said.It was the second time in as many years that the nativity scene has been defaced. Last year, a 17-year-old was charged with stealing the baby […]

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) – An anonymous gift-giver, apparently depressed over a lost love, left a $15,000 diamond engagement ring in somebody else’s unlocked vehicle in a commuter parking lot.The ring came in a box topped with a white bow and accompanied by a note, which read: “Merry Christmas. Thank you for leaving your car door […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – The mystery of the missing diamond given out at a hockey game has been solved, and a woman who says she never wins anything can’t say that anymore.Last week, as part of a Ladies’ Night at the Manchester Monarchs’ hockey game, jeweler David Bellman gave the first 1,000 women who walked […]

NEW YORK (AP) – A copy of John James Audubon’s “The Birds of America” sold Thursday for $5.6 million at a Christie’s auction, ending three years of legal battles over a decision by a financially strapped Providence, R.I., library to dispose of its most valuable holding.The Providence Athenaeum is among several nonprofit institutions that have […]

KITTERY (AP) – After 21 years of service, the attack submarine USS Salt Lake City arrived Thursday at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, which will serve as its last stop before the submarine is dismantled and scrapped.The Salt Lake City and its 127-member crew completed its career by surfacing through the polar ice cap, breaking through […]

ROCKINGHAM, Vt. (AP) – A leaky roof has forced the closure of a section of the Bellows Falls Opera House less than two weeks after it reopened following a renovation.Melting snow leaked in around a drain and created a three-foot hole in the restored plaster ceiling in the opera house. A section of the opera […]

BOSTON (AP) – The complaint will be dropped against a Connecticut woman who fell from the rafters at Fenway Park during a Rolling Stones concert if she stays out of trouble for six months.At a hearing Thursday in Boston Municipal Court, a clerk magistrate declined to issue the misdmeanor charge that had been sought by […]

WELLESLEY, Mass. (AP) – The state’s Board of Higher Education voted Thursday to reject the firing of the president of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, who was abruptly sacked by the school’s trustees earlier this month with little explanation.The board of trustees of the Buzzards Bay academy voted 9-1 on Dec. 4 to dismiss Admiral Richard […]