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Massachusetts pool operators admit letting kids...
Two former Massachusetts recreation managers have admitted that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict them of reckless endangerment of a child for opening a murky state-run pool where the body of a drowned woman went unnoticed for two days.
Proposal requires minimum standards for dementia...
Patient advocates called on state lawmakers today to close a loophole in Massachusetts law that allows nursing homes to advertise specialized Alzheimer's and dementia care units, even though their workers may have no training in caring for such patients.
2 Massachusetts workers get probation in murky...
Two former Massachusetts recreation managers have admitted that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict them of reckless endangerment of a child for opening a murky state-run pool where the body of a drowned woman went unnoticed for two days.
University of Massachusetts to celebrate Charles...
The University of Massachusetts Lowell today announced plans to celebrate Charles Dickens's 200th birthday with seven months of events, beginning at the end of March. Dickens was born Feb. 7, 1812.
MITX Announces New Chairman, Joe Grimaldi, CEO &...
The Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange , New England's leading digital marketing, media and Internet business nonprofit association, announced today that Joe
Massachusetts' Top Two Youth Volunteers Selected...
Rebecca Ackerman, 16, of Westborough and Grace Kirrane, 12, of Fitchburg today were named Massachusetts' top two youth volunteers for 2012 by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a nationwide program honoring young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism.
Bartlett Avenue home to be razed
Wednesday February 8, 2012 PITTSFIELD -- The Bartlett Avenue apartment building gutted by a massive fire last spring soon will be demolished
Olver directed $5.1M to project near home
Wednesday February 8, 2012 WASHINGTON -- A months-long investigation by The Washington Post has identified U.
'Scarlet letter' for gang IDs is pulled
Wednesday February 8, 2012 BOSTON -- A Massachusetts lawmaker who proposed a bill to have the letter "G" affixed to the driver’s
Two take out papers for office bids
Wednesday February 8, 2012 PITTSFIELD -- Two Berkshire County residents on Tuesday obtained nomination papers at City Hall for separate elected
Southeastern Massachusetts mayors meet
Four Southeastern Massachusetts cities are teaming up to bring their communities together and make their economies stronger.
Massachusetts gas prices edge up another 2 cents
Massachusetts residents are paying two more cents a gallon at the gas pump, the seventh consecutive week of increases.
Mitt Romney now trains fire on Rick Santorum in...
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is going after a new foe: former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. Until now, the former Massachusetts governor has focused most of his attention on former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who beat Romney in the South Carolina primary and has been his most formidable opponent so far, despite Santorum's narrow victory over Romney in the Jan. 3 Iowa ...
Massachusetts, California, and New York...
Massachusetts, California and New York were considering Monday whether to join most other states in backing a long-awaited settlement with banks over foreclosure abuses. The deal would require the five largest mortgage lenders to reduce loans for about 1 million households. State attorneys general have set a deadline of the end of Monday for states to join the settlement. Homeowners in states ...
Massachusetts stranded-dolphin death toll up to 92
The unexplained beachings of scores of dolphins over the past month along Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is the largest "single-species event" of its kind on record in the northeastern United States, a marine mammal specialist said Monday.
Criminal charges against Bank of America protesters dropped
The Suffolk County district attorney has dropped criminal charges against 24 protesters who were arrested Friday...
Former Suffolk president's severance in jeopardy
The retired former president of Suffolk University may not receive the full multimillion-dollar payout in the severance...
Punishments don't always fit the crimes
Christmas did not come early for Latoya Thomas-Dickson yesterday.A Suffolk judge did not place an electronic...
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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