A 19-year-old woman says she was held against her will after she was hired for a dog sitting job in Southbridge.

A Massachusetts man is accused of kidnapping a dog sitter who escaped his home, police say. /iStockphoto A Massachusetts man is charged with kidnapping a woman who accepted a dog walking job and went to his house,

A Massachusetts man has been charged with kidnapping a woman who showed up at his home because she was hired to watch dogs. It happened at a home in Southbridge on Friday night around 8:10 p.m., according to local police.

Nine people died Sunday night after an assisted living facility caught fire in Fall River, Massachusetts, officials said, with elderly people begging for help from first responders as smoke poured out of the building.

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — A 10th victim has died from the fire that ripped through a Massachusetts assisted-living facility earlier this week, officials said Thursday.

A 10th person has died in the aftermath of the fire at the Gabriel House in Fall River, Massachusetts. Brenda Cropper, 66, had been hospitalized in critical condition since the Sunday fire.