Brockton News

Greylock Federal Credit Union has made a leadership grant to the Bay State Reading Institute to help fund school turnaround partnerships in two Pittsfield Public Schools, Crosby Elementary School and Morning side Community School.

Submitted to Easton Patch: The Boys & Girls Club of Brockton is pleased to announce a partnership it has formed with Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester.

Brockton, Mass. attorney Kevin J. Reddington's opening statement in the recent trial of a prosecutor accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in a courthouse conference room was as unusual as the case itself.

Aaron Webb is making a superhuman effort to raise funds for a revitalized Centerville Playground, but we still shouldn't have referred to his restaurant as The Daily Planet.

Selectman Christopher Olivieri's wife exhorted voters to come to the polls on a rain-swept Monday, several times posting to Facebook, "Every vote counts.

SPRINGFIELD - The state Department of Public Utilities will hold a public hearing at Springfield City Hall, 36 Court St., at 7 p.m. Wednesday to discuss a petition by Columbia Gas of Massachusetts to raise its base distribution rates.

A Massachusetts state trooper struck and killed in the line of duty by an allegedly drunken driver has been awarded a posthumous degree from Curry College.

Market Basket is opening an 81,000-square-foot store at Westgate Mall in Brockton tomorrow, and as the Patriot Ledger reports, the opening is expected to force down prices at its main competitors in the area - " namely, two Shaw's and two Stop & Shop supermarkets.

The ambassador of Ecuador has reaffirmed that the South American nation will not extradite to the United States a man who was sentenced in his native Ecuador to 25 years in prison for a double murder in Brockton last year.

Please join us in celebrating the return of Patch Q&A: a feature in which we allow you to get to know the movers and shakers that help make Easton tick.

A Wednesday, May 16 11:04 a.m.: Helena Kono, 44, of 21 Bishop St., Natick, was arrested at Leonard Morse Hospital.

Over the last decade, the building on Columbus Avenue formerly known as Easton Junior High School has been a place where change is common.

Last night I sent out the weekly update to the Plymouth County Democratic League in my State of massachusetts.

The following is an excerpt from theA Reading Police Department A log fromA Friday through Monday.

VENICE, Fla. - Phyllis was born in 1919, in Brockton, Mass., the daughter of Arthur and Grace Dunham.

A free information session about the OpenCape regional broadband project will be at 7 p.m. May 21 at the public library at 55 W. Main St.

U.S. Sen. John Kerry is pushing authorities in Ecuador to extradite a man sentenced there to 25 year prison for the bludgeoning death of a woman and her toddler son in Brockton.

Brockton radio station WXBR-1460 twice stopped broadcasting last week, citing "technical difficulties." Turns out, as the Enterprise reports, the station was locked out of the building for not paying its rent.

An Ecuadoran court has sentenced Luis Guaman to 25 years in prison, the maximum penalty under their criminal code, for the beating deaths of a young mother and her 2-year-old son last year in Brockton.

From Division 36, New England Central, on April 29, 2012 - Mike Tamburello, of Brockton, MA is one step closer to the ABA National Championship with a first place win and $509 in the American Fishing Tour bass tournament held on South Watuppa this past weekend.