Police in Brookline, Massachusetts, issued an advisory Thursday morning to notify the public that a credit card skimmer had been found at a gas station in town. Brookline police didn’t specify which business the skimmer was found at, saying only that it was found the other day inside a gas pump. Police used the opportunity to remind people that these devices are illegally installed by criminals who use them to steal your credit card information. When you input your card, the skimmer device sends the information to an external recorder through Bluetooth technology, according to police, who shar ..read more

Boston police tore down a pro-Palestinian encampment on Emerson College’s campus overnight, and students who witnessed it said it was shocking. Police cars lined Boylston Street early Thursday morning, with yellow police tape blocking off the alley where students had gathered to protest the war in Gaza. It was shortly before 2 a.m. that police pushed in through the Boylston Place Alley, where the encampment had been since Sunday night. Video obtained by NBC10 Boston shows students being removed from the alleyway by law enforcement, and witnesses tell us that officers had dozens of students arr ..read more

Massachusetts State Police were in North Andover Wednesday night assisting with a barricaded subject. Details were limited, but a police presence could be seen on Waverly Road. State police said their Air Wing helicopter was also on scene. No further information was immediately available ..read more

Police in Lowell, Massachusetts, are looking for a missing man last seen Wednesday. Authorities say 46-year-old Nicholas Papadonis was last seen around 6 p.m. near the Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsborough State Forest. Papadonis is described as being about 6 feet tall and 215 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes. When he was last seen, police say he was wearing a green camo jacket, a backpack and grey pants. Anyone with information is asked to call 978-937-3200 or dial 911 ..read more

The busy boating season in Gloucester, Massachusetts, is beginning with a scandal at the harbormaster’s office over theft and forgery. TJ Ciarametaro says he was wrongfully terminated by the city earlier this month. The former harbormaster says he worked with Gloucester police to catch the shellfish warden stealing petty cash. The warden then pointed the finger back at the deputy harbormaster for forging signatures on state grants totaling at $24,000. “Just a really disappointing and unfortunate set of events that transpired after a pretty long seven-year career here giving it my all,” Ciarame ..read more

The public will get to weigh in on a possible ban on sales of tobacco and e-cigarette products to anyone who was born after 2003 in Malden, Massachusetts, at a board of health meeting on Wednesday night. According to the public hearing agenda, any businesses that defy the ban could be fined and suspended. “I would support it at this point, but I do think we need to make sure there’s not other access to cigarettes that’s being provided,” city council member Stephen Winslow said. Some businesses are not sold on the idea of the ban, saying sales will go up in smoke if they are not allowed to sell ..read more

Top Democrats expect to file a compromise Wednesday on a bill designed to continue funding the state’s overrun emergency family shelter system and implement reforms to cut costs by limiting how long families may stay in shelters. As State House News Service first reported, lawmakers working on a fiscal 2024 supplemental budget (H 4466 / S 2711) picked up the paperwork needed to file a deal Wednesday morning. In a joint statement Wednesday afternoon, lead conferees Sen. Michael Rodrigues and Rep. Aaron Michlewitz said they were finalizing details of the compromise in order to “timely” file the ..read more

A person was grazed by a bullet Wednesday in what’s being investigated as a possible road rage incident on Interstate 93 in Braintree, Massachusetts, sources tell the NBC10 Investigators. The person who was grazed, the driver of a white pickup truck, was not seriously hurt, the sources said. There was no description of a suspect vehicle as the police investigation began. The southbound left lane of I-93 was closed at Exit 6, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, which told drivers to expect delays. There was no official confirmation of what prompted the police activ ..read more

Rescuers were able to save 10 of 11 dolphins that were stranded in shallow water on Cape Cod Tuesday, according to an animal welfare group. Eight of the dolphins were found in Wellfleet’s Duck Creek, three in a hook-shaped part of Herring Creek where dolphin strandings are common, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare. One of the dolphins died during the rescue, but the rest were able to be released together. “While the dolphins suffered from stress related to the stranding, we’re very optimistic and full of hope for their return to deeper waters,” IFAW stranding biologist Lau ..read more

Slamming Steward Health Care executives for “really despicable” conduct, Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday that she wants Massachusetts and federal regulators to conduct a thorough review of a proposal that would sell Steward’s physician network to for-profit insurer Optum. Healey faced questions during an interview on WBUR’s “Radio Boston” about whether she supports the proposed sale and what might happen if it does not go through. “What needs to happen is the relevant regulatory agencies need to be able to do their job. That’s the Health Policy Commission here in Massachusetts and the U.S. Depa ..read more