Douglas News

Douglas Police officer faces domestic assault charge DOUGLAS - A veteran police officer is scheduled for a Dec.

A Mattapan man and a Roxbury woman were sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for the 2007 slayings of two men, according to Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley.

Worcester Central District Court Jury Session Jury-Waived Cases Judge David P. Despotopulos James R. Dudley Jr., 47, of 3 Wayne Terrace, Worcester, charged with assault and battery, dismissed.

STANDOFF AT DOUGLAS BARN Paul Miller, who threatened to kill cops in April, in court today.

Staff members of Crabtree CPA & Associates in Hyannis - Douglas R. Crabtree, CPA; Nancy Boudreau, CPA, accounting and tax manager; Peggy Cirullo, CPA, accounting manager; Jeff Crabtree, CPB, senior accountant; and Douglas Crabtree Jr., firm administrator - have all earned QuickBooks ProAdvisor Status after passing a three-part exam.

Phil Saviano and Susan Pavlak led separate lives in different states, both fighting for people who - like them - had been abused by clergy years ago.

Worcester police Officers Jack Murray left and John Baizley wave to boys while walking their beat on Grand Street.

Fire gutted a house on Quaker Street yesterday afternoon. Fire Chief Gary Nestor said the ranch-style house was a total loss, and that the state fire marshal's office was at the house helping investigators try to determine a cause.

It was the rock thrown through her living room window that finally settled the question.

Hundreds of Central Massachusetts residents flocked to Shrewsbury High School last night to talk to Gov.

Worcester Judge orders restrictions on civil rights violators WORCESTER - A Superior Court judge yesterday imposed restrictions on two men who allegedly assaulted a black woman and her friend in November and bombarded the woman with racial epithets.

Despite torrential rain and the threat of severe thunderstorms, more than 60 Sutton and Douglas residents, state and local officials packed the selectmen's meeting room yesterday afternoon for the state-held meeting on Manchaug Reservoir Corp.'s petition to breach the Manchaug Pond Dam.

Last month, Qualcomm co-founder and former chairman and CEO Irwin Jacobs returned to New Bedford, where he was born, to participate in an oceanside chat sponsored by the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center, the Southern New England Entrepreneurs Forum and MassNetComms.

Mass layoffs slow in Bay State, spike in U.S. Boston Business Journal - by Craig M. Douglas Mass layoffs dropped in the Bay State last month, bucking a national trend.

A four-year mission by the Cornerstone Baptist Church to convert a former grange hall into its permanent house of worship is complete and a public celebration marking the occasion will be held later this week.

The owner of the Manchaug Pond Dam is taking steps to breach the dam, a move that would shrink the pond, reduce the flow of the Mumford River, and interfere with sewage treatment at the wastewater plant in neighboring Douglas.

A 45-year-old Whitinsville woman was arraigned today on four counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and six counts of statutory rape of a child.

A 60-meter meteorological test tower was installed on the site last week. DOUGLAS - With the appeal period ended, the Douglas Woods wind farm project is moving forward with the installation of a test tower and negotiations over connection agreements.

There are serious allegations that our government broke the law and violated the Constitution and we must ensure that our citizens are fully empowered with the opportunity to understand the inner workings of our government.

A Turners Falls woman with a history of depression was ordered held on $100,000 cash bail yesterday on charges of trying to murder her 2-year-old daughter with a pair of scissors at a Gardner apartment complex.