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Mass Cash

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:43:41 -0500

BRAINTREE - The winning numbers drawn Friday night in the $100,000 "Mass Cash" game were: 2-4-10-13-25 There were two winning jackpot tickets sold, in Braintree,...

Mass. families adopt 244 foster children

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:40:31 -0500

CAMBRIDGE - Dozens of Massachusetts families have opened their homes to more than 240 children as the state marks the seventh annual National Adoption Day. The Executive...

Coast Guard: instability doomed Mass. fishing boat

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:39:20 -0500

BOSTON - The Coast Guard says a New Bedford fishing boat became rapidly unstable as a full fishing net was lowered on deck, causing it to sink and kill its captain a year...

Drowned soldier laid to rest

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:31:42 -0500

In a final call home, Army Sgt. Benjamin Sherman told his sister to tell everyone he loved them, "because I don't know if I'll get that chance again." ...

Helping Santa is easy as ABCD

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:03:52 -0500

Santa's helpers at Action for Boston Community Development are making a long list of toys for needy tots and checking it twice against a bigger demand than ever as the...

Cops: Hair appt. after hit-&-run

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:45:26 -0500

The hairdresser who coiffed the tresses of accused hit-and-run driver Michelle P. Medeiros said the teen was "calm" during the appointment to which she drove after...

Cops reopen island case as woman's kin seek 2nd autopsy

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:45:17 -0500

Police in the U.S. Virgin Islands have reopened the investigation of a Lynnfield veterinarian and her burial has been delayed as her grief-stricken family pushes for a second...

Department of Correction debunks violence claim

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:35:44 -0500

Assaults and weapons confiscations have skyrocketed at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center since the implementation of a controversial double bunking policy that made...

Two more deaths bring Mass. swine flu toll to 17

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:09:38 -0500

A young child and an adult are the latest Bay State victims of deadly swine flu, bringing to 17 the number of H1N1-related flu deaths in the state since spring, officials...

Slay trial begins for son accused of chopping up dad

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:11:07 -0500

A man accused of ghoulishly murdering his father in Mattapan - allegedly by chopping him to pieces and disposing of him in a compost heap - went on trial yesterday. Brian...

Seas the weekend!

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:09:33 -0500

It looks like smooth sailing this weekend with mild temperatures and sunny skies, but Bay Staters should brace themselves for the possibility of a splash on Thanksgiving. ...

Two die in Bay State from swine flu this week

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:56:46 -0500

A Bay State infant and an adult have died from the swine flu this week, health officials announced today. This brings the total number of deaths in Massachusetts from H1N1...

Family troubled by hubby's claim that wife hanged herself

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:11:23 -0500

The body of a Lynnfield mother of two lies in limbo while her family - troubled by her husband's claim she hanged herself in their U.S. Virgin Islands hotel room one...

Prosecutor: Man used power saw to dismember father

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:55:31 -0500

Prosecutors say a Boston man beat his 70-year-old father to death, then used a power saw to cut his body to pieces before scattering the remains. Assistant District Attorney...

Adams police officer quits after child porn charge

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:45:34 -0500

ADAMS - A veteran Adams police officer accused of viewing child pornography on a computer in the evidence room at the police station has resigned. The North Adams Transcript...

'Big Brother 9' winner seeks bail in drug case

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:31:48 -0500

The winner of the CBS reality TV show "Big Brother 9" accused of trying to sell a powerful prescription painkiller is again asking to be released on bail until his...

Senate panel to mull Bernanke nomination on Dec. 3

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:46:10 -0500

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's nomination to a second term will be the subject of a Senate Banking Committee hearing next month, the panel's...

Harvard looks to reduce professor ranks

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:11:56 -0500

CAMBRIDGE - The dean of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences said he will reduce the number of professors to help balance a $110 million deficit. Dean...

Three students arrested after Cape Tech protest

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:13:45 -0500

HARWICH - Police were called in, and at least three students arrested, when as many as 400 students held a sit-in demonstration at Cape Cod Regional Technical High School...

Boston Symphony unveils 2010 Tanglewood plans

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:19:34 -0500

Winter hasn't even arrived but the Boston Symphony Orchestra is already planning for summer. The BSO announced Friday that its 2010 Tanglewood season will begin on...

Complaints stack up against woodcutter

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:04:53 -0500

SANDWICH - The road name is right out of the "Canterbury Tales," but for residents of Chaucer Street, one neighbor has been a royal pain. For a decade, neighbors...

Bay State flu 'crisis'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:03:44 -0500

Weeks before its predicted peak, the swine flu pandemic already has hit a historic high in the Bay State, with one hospital unit reporting a third of its nurses felled by...

Springfield man's conviction in fatal shootings upheld

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:59:27 -0500

The highest court in Massachusetts has upheld the conviction of a man serving a life sentence in the 2005 fatal shooting of two Springfield men. Maurice Felder is one of...

Purdue University student from Andover facing charges

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:17:25 -0500

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University student has been arrested after a suspicious package led officials to evacuate a visitor information center on the West Lafayette...

Judge approves $100K to girl injured by cop

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:35:43 -0500

FALL RIVER - A judge has approved a $100,000 settlement from the city of Attleboro to a teenage girl who claims her wrist was broken during a scuffle with a police officer. Esther...