People have been trying to walk across the icy Charles River in Boston. Massachusetts State Police say it's just not safe.

On Monday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform opened a probe into so-called sanctuary cities for immigrants and has requested testimony from Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.

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

Massachusetts State Police are investigating an unattended death on an Air France flight from Paris to Boston.

Federal authorities are threatening to investigate state officials who don't comply with immigration enforcement policies.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — State Police and Cambridge Fire are searching for a missing person in the Charles River. According to Massachusetts State Police, on Saturday, January 25 shortly before 6 p.m., officers received reports of abandoned shoes and clothing on the sidewalk adjacent to the Charles River in Cambridge, near 99 Memorial Drive).

Gov. Maura Healey said there is no reason to be concerned about it because Massachusetts is not a so-called "sanctuary state."

Currently on the body are three councilors who were elected after serving in the Wu administration: Sharon Durkan, Enrique Pepén and Henry Santana.

Two women were seriously injured in a Sunday morning crash on Interstate 495 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, State Police said.

PEABODY — A man accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in a state shelter in early December was not removed from the system pending a police investigation, but was relocated to another state shelter that housed families with children, according to a police report obtained by the Globe.

A second man was arrested Tuesday in connection with the shooting of a 16-year-old girl in Easton, Massachusetts, police said. The girl, who was shot in the face at an apartment two weeks ago, remains in serious but stable condition in a Boston-area hospital.