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BOSTON — Boston police say a woman was seriously injured when she was struck by a vehicle.Authorities say the crash happened around 9:45 a.m. Tuesday near the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Police say the woman was struck as she crossed the street.The woman was taken to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries. Police have not identified the victim.Police say the driver stayed at the scene of the crash.An investigation continues.

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Senate is set to debate legislation regulating short-term rentals like those made through online platforms like Airbnb.The legislation the Senate is expected to take up Wednesday would impose existing state hotel taxes on the rooms and allow communities to impose local excise taxes.The Senate bill differs from legislation recently approved by the Massachusetts House.The Massachusetts Lodging Association, which represents local hotels and motels, welcomed the House version of the bill.

BOSTON — Legislation that calls for the most extensive overhaul of the state's criminal justice system in decades could be on Republican Gov. Charlie Baker's desk within days.The Senate on Wednesday is scheduled to take an up or down vote on the compromise bill , which cannot be further amended. Approval is considered likely with the House tentatively set to vote on Thursday.

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — A Cape Cod science center is partnering with businesses and groups on a new drive to address the causes of endangered right whale deaths.The Center for Coastal Studies says its 1,000 Friends of Right Whales drive will focus attention on ship strikes and entanglement in fishing gear, which are major threats to the endangered whales. The whales are believed to number no more than 450 and have experienced heavy deaths and low reproduction in the past year.

BRAINTREE, Mass. _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "MassCash" game were:12-13-23-28-31(twelve, thirteen, twenty-three, twenty-eight, thirty-one)

NEWBURYPORT, Mass. — Fire officials responded to a hazmat situation at the Newburyport District Court building Tuesday afternoon.A hazardous material team arrived after a report of a "suspicious white powder" found in a plastic bag in the women's restroom around 10:30 a.m.One person was in the vicinity of the unknown substance and was taken to an area hospital as a precaution.The Newburyport Fire Department Chief Christopher LeClaire says the powder was sent to a laboratory for testing,

CONCORD, N.H. — The Vermont man suspected in the murder of his wealthy grandfather and the disappearance of his mother told a New Hampshire judge yesterday that he doesn’t have key documents lawyers that his aunts are seeking. The prime document sought is about a $3,000 assault rifle he allegedly bought in this state — the same caliber of gun they say was used to kill his grandfather.

The late Navy Capt. Thomas H. Hudner Jr., who earned the Medal of Honor for crash-landing his plane in an effort to save his downed wingman during the Korean War, will be buried will military honors at Arlington National Cemetery today.

No federal immigration detainees housed at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility have been brought to their state court cases this year despite explicit requests from judges — a move that shows continued rising tensions on the heels of a controversial Supreme Judicial Court decision.

State police taking inventory of a sedan they towed after catching a North Carolina woman speeding in South Boston found more than two pounds of fentanyl in the trunk, where the driver told them her luggage was packed.Jake Wark, spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, said the heat-sealed brick of white chunky powder grabbed Monday was one of the largest single seizures of the potentially lethal opioid “in recent memory within Suffolk County.”