Douglas News

The Orleans mom was days away from losing her home's heat. The 35-year-old single woman supported her two children as a full-time certified nurse assistant.

Selectmen and administrators from five Blackstone Valley towns have shifted their attention for now from regional economic development to fighting legislation they say is hurting local municipal budgets.

A 5-year-old autistic boy was found after two hours of searching in the Douglas woods on Saturday, police said.

The Northboro Historical Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 4. The evening's program will be 'A Good Olde New England Christmas.' Even though Christmas was once banned in Boston, New Englanders have always celebrated the season with songs and music.

Douglas Wind farm gets blessing of special town meeting DOUGLAS - Voters at last night's special town meeting unanimously approved a tax increment financing agreement with American Pro Wind for a proposed 13-turbine wind farm on the west side of town.

Two young girls disappeared from a Douglas daycare and were found wandering around in a man's yard nearly a half-mile away.

Dr. Douglas called Dr. Boylston ignorant, illiterate and rash. The controversy over the swine flu vaccine puzzles folks of older generations.

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.