■ WORKER DEATH An employee was found dead at a ski area in Westford Tuesday morning, officials said. The 70-year-old Townsend man was found dead at the Nashoba Valley Ski Area at about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, the Middlesex district attorney’s office said in a statement. Officials said the death is not considered suspicious.

■ FIRE VICTIM A New Bedford woman was in critical condition Tuesday after she was seriously injured in an apartment fire Monday night, police said. The 48-year-old woman, who was not identified, was found unconscious on the third floor of a Pleasant Street building when crews arrived at around 8:30 p.m., New Bedford police said in a statement. She was rescued from the building, taken to St. Luke’s Hospital, and then taken by helicopter to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston for treatment of “significant burns’’ to her body. Three other tenants of the building safely escaped, fire officials said in a separate statement. The fire was confined to the first floor of the building.

■ HATE SPEECH INVESIGATED Concord police are investigating a report of hate speech by a man who allegedly made derogatory comments about Jewish people outside a restaurant that was hosting a Bar Mitzvah reception Saturday afternoon. A person who attended the reception reported to police that he noticed a man outside the restaurant on Elm Street make the comments to another man. Police have notified the state attorney general’s office and the Anti-Defamation League of New England of the matter, and the Concord-Carlisle Human Rights Council.

■ PRISON TERM A Worcester man who held his girlfriend, a child, and a teenager hostage at gunpoint for nearly 24 hours has been sentenced to up to six years in prison. The Telegram & Gazette reports that 54-year-old Ghinh Nguyen was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to charges including kidnapping, assault with intent to rape, and multiple firearms offenses. Prosecutors say Nguyen held the woman, their 6-year-old son and the woman’s 18-year-old son for 20 hours in January 2015 before he surrendered. (AP)