SOMERVILLE - Somerville police are investigating an art heist after a masked thief snatched two paintings at a mixed-used building at 50 Prospect Street. The art heist looks like a scene out of "The Thomas Crown Affair"-except the masked thief is less glamorous using wire cutters to grab the art in the middle of the night on January 5.

New video shows the brazen theft of artwork from a Somerville gallery earlier this month. Somerville police on Friday released video showing the suspect pulling a painting off the wall at the Somerville Open Studios on Prospect Street in the early morning hours of January 5, 2025.

Two gang members in Massachusetts were sentenced to prison for their role in trafficking cocaine and racketeering. In a news release from the Department of Justice in Boston, a two-year investigation into the violent Boston-area gang,

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Somerville Public Schools sent an email to families saying that the district will not allow ICE access to its facilities without a warrant.

A taxi cab driver unknowingly acted as a get away driver after a man robbed a bank in Somerville, Massachusetts, officials said Wednesday. The Somerville Police Department received a call for a robbery at the East Cambridge Savings Bank at 12:45 p.m.

Boston and other Massachusetts sanctuary cities are expected to be a ... The Bay State’s eight sanctuary cities – Boston, Somerville, Northampton, Amherst, Cambridge, Concord, Lawrence and Newton – have reaffirmed their pledges to not assist in ...

After a court ruling forced Somerville to pay an additional $29.8 million for property it had taken, mayor Katjana Ballantyne announced that the city will abandon its original plans for a public safety complex at 90 Washington St.

ICE has already begun rounding up hundreds of illegal immigrant criminals across the country just two days into the Trump administration’s aggressive push — with one Boston-area Haitian gang

Officials say a 25-year-old man with 17 criminal convictions in Massachusetts is a member of a violent Haitian street gang.

A woman who says she keeps her heat low in the winter was stunned to find her latest Eversource gas bill went up more than $300.

The Boston University International Students and Scholars Office. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 20 to revoke birthright citizenship, prompting lawsuits by Boston-based legal organizations and concerns about Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. SIENA GLEASON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER