Holbrook News

These Massachusetts water systems had health-based violations in 2008. Most violations, like the presence of coliform, are not themselves dangerous, but are regulated because they can mask the presence of other bacterias.

MBTA cops responded to South Station after a man reportedly crawled into a moving truck, according to a police report on Friday's 10 a.m. incident.

MBTA police responded to Atlantic Avenue and Summer Street, near South Station, for a report of a man breaking into a moving truck, according to an MBTA police report on Friday's 10 a.m. incident.

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In the blink of an eye, an idyllic Sunday afternoon transformed into a fierce display of mother nature's wrath for many Bay State residents outside celebrating Memorial Day weekend.

A Holbrook baseball diamond was dedicated on Saturday in memory of local teenager Sean Joyce, who was a victim of the Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus.

Three people have been arrested for a murder in Holbrook last summer. 25-year-old Osahon Ighodaro was found stabbed to death in an apartmentA on Longmeadow Drive in July 2008.

The First Baptist Church of Whitman is closing at the end of June, after nearly 200 years as a place of worship and fellowship for generations of area residents.

A legislative proposal to cut a popular police benefit has caused confusion and consternation in local police departments, as some officers worry that their annual pay could be cut by thousands of dollars.

Above, from left: Cathy Wallace, Vanessa Chavez, and Katherine Beer learn how to make a calzone from Diane Manteca in one of the new kitchens at the Boston Center for Adult Education.

A Massachusetts man and his climbing partner from Vermont were "incredibly fortunate," officials said, to survive with only minor injuries after they were caught in an avalanche and tumbled 800 feet down a slope at New Hampshire's Mount Washington last weekend.

Two climbers escaped serious injury when they were carried in an avalanche in the White Mountain's Tuckerman Ravine, according to the U.S. Forest Service.

Dudley Square bank is the latest to be hit in a rash of heists. An employee of the Bank of America at 114 Dudley St.

Just hours after a man robbed a Needham bank and left a suspicious device at the counter yesterday, the FBI offered $25,000 for information leading to his arrest, saying they believe he could be the man involved in a similar robbery in Wellesley last week.

Police in Holbrook, Massachusetts are investigating a sexually explicit cell phone video circulated among classmates at a local school.

Holbrook police and the Norfolk district attorney's office are investigating a tip from students at the Holbrook Junior/Senior High School that a sexually explicit video involving students was circulating around the school, police said.

A girl complained to Holbrook police Thursday that she was surreptitiously videotaped having sex with her boyfriend.

Manny Hamelburg, 68, a retired businessman, had fought prostate cancer for years.

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A Weymouth man accused of stealing an elderly woman's purse Thursday afternoon while she perused boxes of rice in a supermarket aisle in Holbrook was contrite yesterday after his arraignment on larceny charges, offering an apology to the woman and admitting that he was "definitely guilty." "I apologize, that's all I can really say," said John W.