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Massachusetts layoffs last year highest since 2002
Massachusetts employers last year took 275 mass layoff actions involving at least 50 or more people, the largest number of such events since 2002, according to federal figures released today.
Hells Angel gives self up
Friday September 10, 2010 PITTSFIELD -- A ranking member of the Hells Angels, who was wanted in connection with a conspiracy plot to frame a government witness slated to testify against him, surrendered to authorities in Pittsfield on Wednesday.
Ali's got money in (our) bank
Friday September 10, 2010 Former New England Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson left two cashier's checks totaling $9,220 lingering in a bank in Texas.
Great Barrington Hispanics fear profiling
Friday September 10, 2010 GREAT BARRINGTON -- A number of immigrants in South County have been driving in fear of an unmarked state police car that they say has stopped Hispanics for no reason other than their apparent ethnicity.
Airport ready to expand
Friday September 10, 2010 PITTSFIELD -- The Pittsfield Municipal Airport expansion project is ready to take off.
Sludge becomes power
Friday September 10, 2010 DALTON -- Crane & Co. plans to clean up its 50-year old waste pits by converting them into a decade's worth of sustainable energy.
Massachusetts receives $2.6 million Department of...
Massachusetts has received $2.6 million to help the state fund residential energy efficiency projects, a chunk of a total $28.5... Massachusetts - United States Department of Energy - Efficient energy use - Energy - Technology
Man accused in Massachusetts family slaying asks...
Lawyers for a Massachusetts man accused of killing his wife, two children and mother-in-law asked Thursday to keep some "highly inflammatory" details of the slayings sealed from public view, arg...
Massachusetts Regional Extension Center Selects...
CARROLLTON, Ga., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Massachusetts e-Health Institute, a division of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, has selected Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc.'s single-database electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability solution PrimeSuite® as a preferred EHR solution for its statewide deployment initiative within the U.S. Department of ...
Two Massachusetts Agents Appointed to CAR...
Commonwealth Automobile Reinsurers, which oversees Massachusetts' residual market for auto insurance, has appointed two members to its governing committee. The new committee members are Joseph P. ...
Industrial Directory Reports Massachusetts Lost...
Industrial employment in Massachusetts fell 1.2% over the past twelve months according to the 2011 Massachusetts Manufacturers Register®, an industrial directory published annually by Manufacturers' News, Inc.
Massachusetts health reform fails the...
A new study looking at the effects of the 2006 Massachusetts Health Reform on access to care, health status and ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in healthcare, shows that the legislation has led to improvements in insurance coverage as well as a decline in financial barriers to care. However, to date, it has not increased people's access to a personal physician or improved their self-rated ...
Police: Mass. WW II vet fights off 19-year-old
Wednesday September 8, 2010 YARMOUTH, Mass. -- Yarmouth police say an 83-year-old World War II Marine Corps veteran fought off a 19-year-old man who broke into his home and attacked him with a glass candlestick.
Old Farmer's Almanac: Global cooling to continue
Wednesday September 8, 2010 DUBLIN, N.H. -- Most of the country will see a colder-than-usual winter while summer and spring will be relatively cool and dry, according to the time-honored, complex calculations of the "Old Farmer's Almanac."
Women pay fines after facing shoplifting charge
Thursday September 9, 2010 NORTH ADAMS -- The following cases were heard in Northern Berkshire District Court:

Suffolk's 75th birthday brings back memories
When pari-mutuel horse racing was legalized in Massachusetts in 1935, the Eastern Racing Association rushed into...
Ex-Mass. rabbi arraigned again in child abuse
A rabbi who once taught at a Boston-area school has been arraigned on a new child assault charge stemming from an incident that occurred more than 30 years ago. The Suffolk County district attorney's office says Stanley Z. Levitt of Philadelphia was arraigned Wednesday on a single count of indecent assault and battery on a child in Brighton.
Ex-Mass. rabbi charged again in child abuse
The Suffolk County district attorney says a rabbi who once taught at a Boston-area school faces another child assault charge. Authorities said Sunday that Stanley Z. Levitt was charged with indecent assault and battery on a child. The 64-year-old Levitt is expected to be arraigned Wednesday in Suffolk Superior Court.
DA: Boston teen who fired on police shot himself
Investigators say a Boston man who died during a gunfight with police over the weekend shot himself in the head. The Suffolk district attorney's office says four officers working with an anti-gang unit approached 19-year-old Manuel DaVeiga Jr. at a street memorial for a homicide victim at about 9:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Old gun statute is DA's secret weapon
The Suffolk District Attorney's Office is deploying a long-dormant state statute to lock up "career criminals"...
Suffolk's chairman set to step down
Suffolk University's beleaguered 80-year-old chairman of the board Nicholas Macaronis will retire in February. "I believe the time is right for new leadership...
Deval Patrick may 'divide and conquer' race
Bay State voters just can't quit Deval Patrick, even though most would cast ballots against him, a new 7News/Suffolk University poll shows. The poll shows a three-way...
6 treated in Boston after crash involving jail van
Two correction officers and three Suffolk County detainees have suffered minor injuries after a sheriff's van carrying prisoners collided another car in Boston. A spokesman for the Suffolk County Sheriff's office says a vehicle crossed the median strip and hit the side of the van that was returning four detainees back to the Suffolk County House of Correction on Friday.
Former inmate awarded $900,000
A former inmate at the Suffolk County House of Correction was awarded close to $900,000 in damages yesterday by a federal jury that found correctional officers beat and humiliated him in 1999.
In spite of rivals, Menino holding plans close to...
City Councilors Michael Flaherty and Sam Yoon are in the race for mayor. So is South End business owner Kevin McCrea. Former Suffolk district attorney Ralph Martin has ruled out entering the fray.
Mass. correction officer charged with inmate rape
A 17-year veteran of the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he raped a female inmate at a Boston jail. Lt. Thomas Healy, a corrections officer at the Suffolk County House of Correction, turned himself in Tuesday morning. Prosecutors said Healy groped and raped the woman in her cell on Nov. 12.
Inmates sue over lack of bathrooms at Mass. jail
Nearly 4,000 current and former inmates are suing the Suffolk House of Correction for failing to provide timely access to bathrooms.
Inmates: Denial of toilet access just doesn't wash
Nearly 4,000 current and former inmates are suing the Suffolk House of Correction for failing to provide timely access to bathrooms. U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton...
Former Suffolk DA won't challenge Menino
The absence of former Suffolk District Attorney Ralph C. Martin II from the political landscape is a boon to Mayor Thomas M. Menino but does not remove the threat of a potential...
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