State police said they began investigating after the girl’s father reported her missing to authorities in Massachusetts.

Trooper Michael Proctor read from compilations of text messages he sent to friends as he looked at Read’s phone. “Yes she’s a babe. Weird Fall River accent, though.

A 65-year-old Ipswich man was found unresponsive outside a vehicle and later died at Beverly Hospital. The incident is under investigation by authorities.

But right now in Massachusetts — its trailblazing 2020 police reform law notwithstanding — that training remains a hodgepodge of curricula. The hours spent in classroom instruction vary, and the classes are too often offered by uncertified instructors.

Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor, is set to sit before a trial board to face allegations of misconduct on Wednesday.

Geoffrey Noble will oversee the largest law enforcement agency in New England after he was sworn in as the new Colonel of the Massachusetts State Police by Gov. Maura Healey. The Massachusetts State Police recruit who died after getting injured in a training exercise was laid to rest after his funeral Saturday in Worcester.

Kristian Avery of Windsor stole a vehicle from the local fire department, fled to Massachusetts and was stopping motorists on I-91 there, state police say.

Massachusetts State Police and firefighters respond to false report of person falling through the ice on the Charles

A Southington man is accused of driving a 13-year-old from Massachusetts to his family's property in Haddam and sexually assaulting them there, police said. Dylan Martin, 21, of Southington, was arrested at his home Monday morning and charged with risk of injury to a minor,

The Longmeadow Police Department arrested three individuals on Saturday night following a search and seizure of illicit drugs and a hoax incendiary device.

The Massachusetts State Police are urging the public to stay on land amid unsafe ice conditions on bodies of water across the Bay State.

A teenager was hospitalized with serious injuries Tuesday after he was involved in a car versus motorcycle crash in Taunton, Massachusetts, the Taunton Police Department said.