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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts will pay nearly $20 million to turn the Boston area’s Hubway bike share system into Blue Bikes and expand the program with more than 1,000 new bikes and more than 100 new rental stations across the region.“Blue Cross is committed to helping Massachusetts residents lead healthy lives, and this program is a way to bring that to life,” said Jeff Bellows, vice-president of corporate citizenship for BCBS. “Being a health-care company, it’s in line with what we want to do.”

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — The suspect in a fatal hit-and-run in Massachusetts has been held without bail pending a hearing to determine whether he poses a danger to society.The Standard-Times reports that 58-year-old Natalie Vieira appeared in court Tuesday and not guilty pleas to charges including leaving the scene of a fatal accident were entered on his behalf.Natalie is Vieira's legal name but prosecutors say he is transgender and identifies as male.

WORCESTER, Mass. — Authorities have released the name of the 85-year-old woman killed in a Massachusetts house fire that was spotted by a firefighter heading into work.The Telegram & Gazette reports that Maria Montalvo died in the Monday morning fire in Worcester. The cause has not been determined, but investigators say it appears to be an accident.Two other people, ages 64 and 65, were injured in the fire. Their names were not released.An off-duty firefighter rushed in to help get them out after seeing the fire on his drive to work.___

PHILADELPHIA — The second big, blustery storm to hit the Northeast in less than a week began bringing wet, heavy snow Wednesday to a corner of the country where tens of thousands of people were still waiting for the power to come back on from the first bout of wintry weather.The nor'easter closed schools and government offices, grounded flights and raised fears of another round of fallen trees and electrical outages as it made its way up the East Coast.

DUDLEY, Mass. — A quarterback from the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people has committed to play football for a Massachusetts college because of the bond he formed with two recruiters during the shooting.Tyler Goodman, a quarterback at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, confirmed to WFXT-TV that he has committed to Nichols College.

SPRINGFIELD — Police in Massachusetts have shot a man they say led them on a low-speed car chase before putting his vehicle in reverse and backing toward officers.A spokesman for Springfield police say the suspect refused to pull over for a routine traffic stop at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday.The chase ended when the driver struck a parked vehicle, a porch and fence.Two officers got out of their cruiser and were approaching the vehicle when it backed up.

Federal prosecutors say their case against two of Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s top lieutenants could be on a “collision course” with dismissal if a federal judge doesn’t reconsider his proposed jury instructions in the upcoming high-profile trial.The controversy is over how Judge Leo T. Sorokin is defining the phrase “obtaining property of another” as it relates to Hobbs Act extortion.

When Mary Ann Prince first heard of supervised injection sites, where intravenous drug users can inject — under medical supervision — she was skeptical at best.“I thought it just continues this (addiction) for the kid,” the Shirley woman said.It took just one thing to change her mind: On May 2, 2014, her son, Travis, a National Guard Army reservist who became addicted to prescription painkillers after a back injury and then turned to heroin, died of an overdose.He was 25 and left behind a wife and 9-month-old son.

Duxbury officials are scrambling to replace 200 feet of sea wall that was swallowed by the Atlantic Ocean during last week’s nor’easter before another powerful storm batters the coastline and dumps more than a foot of snow on communities in central and western Massachusetts.The South Shore town’s sea walls are “in crisis and (are) in the process of failing,” Town Manager Rene J. Read said yesterday while speaking with reporters near a decimated section of sea wall that eroded into the ocean Monday afternoon.

Investigators are still scouring the state for a yellow fuel can they believe is connected to the murders of a West Brookfield woman and her three children, using a helicopter yesterday to scan the area around their house and venturing as far as East Boston on a tip that didn’t pan out.