Abington News

'No water, no sewerage, no heat, no electricity' TRUCK DAMAGES RESIDENCE Roger E. Castell walks yesterday by his house at 607 Stafford St., Leicester, where a tractor-trailer crashed into his front room Monday evening.

A full-sized United Van Lines tractor trailer crashed into a house located yesterday after being cut off by a BMW that drove through a stop sign, Leicester Police Chief James Hurley said in a statement.

Boston Herald Features Reporter Tenley Woodman is a feature writer for the Boston Herald.

An intoxicated Boston EMT currently on injured leave was arrested after shooting two men in Abington on Sunday.

Share + Sep 21, 2009 11:32 am US/Eastern ABINGTON, Mass. Police say a Boston paramedic shot his deceased colleague's brothers then used his emergency training to treat them.

Two brothers were hospitalized with gunshot wounds after witnesses said a fight broke out at a party in Abington early Sunday morning.

By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY The numbers are troubling: An estimated 17.6 million adults in the USA are either alcoholics or have alcohol problems, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Weddings, birthdays and even small dinner parties aren't the same without a sweet reward like a piece of cake.

A driver was seriously hurt after crashing into a parked car in Abington. It happened around 9: 30 p.m. on Thursday.

Sgt. Jared C. Monti of Raynham, who braved fatal fire in Afghanistan, will receive the nation's highest honor Jared Monti of Raynham was killed in Afghanistan in 2006.

After 10 months without a town manager and more than five months of searching for a new one, the Meredith Board of Selectmen has hired Phillip L. Warren Jr.

EPA has ordered a Massachusetts real estate developer to restore approximately 6.3 acres of freshwater wetlands in Rockland, Mass.

North Abington residents are renewing their push to have the MBTA slow down commuter rail trains they say are whizzing through their neighborhood at excessive speeds.

Jake Brennan is a happy baby. He likes to play with his brother's "big boy toys" and is learning to walk, using furniture to steady himself.

A woman from Abington, Mass. received a tip that her 7-month-old son's picture was being used by scammers on craigslist.

The scenario could have been lifted from a Hollywood screenplay: mother finds pictures on the internet of children available for adoption and sees her own son.

Share + Aug 3, 2009 9:00 pm US/Eastern ABINGTON, Mass. An Abington, Massachusetts, mother is trying to find the scammer who stole a picture of her son right off of her family blog.

An Abington, Mass., mother said she found her 7-month-old son listed for sale on Craigslist in an international adoption scam.

A Massachusetts mother warned people about the dangers of the internet after finding her own child for sale through a link on the website Craigslist.org. The family was unknowingly thrust into an interna... " list.

BY 4-TO-1, IT'S NO - Faced with an average annual tax increase of $200 if passed, a strong turnout of Abington voters last weekend overwhelmingly said no to a $1.7 million Propositiong 2 1/2 override.