Marshfield News

The state has revoked the license of habitual drunken driver Carlos J. Owen Jr. - who is scheduled to appear today in Wareham District Court for a dangerousness hearing - for life.

For years, as the stark trees shed the last of their leaves and locals felt the after-effects of their Thanksgiving indulgences, Plimoth Plantation followed a decades-old pattern: shutter for four months and get ready for next year.

When the New Hope Chapel volunteers dressed as Mary, Joseph, and Jesus step on Norwell Common Dec.

The winners of today's Republican and Democratic primaries will face each other on Jan.

Sometimes a good thing gets even better. Mt. Vikos, the Marshfield importer of Ines Rosales tortas from Seville, Spain, convinced the Spanish bakers to create three new flavors of the classic olive oil crackers.

Image by Phillip Jones Photography from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr . Voters appear disinterested in today's special primary election as the turnout is reportedly very light.

Thieves stole hundreds of dollars from a group selling Christmas trees for charity.

A local lacrosse player already accused of sexual assault appeared in court Thursday in connection with an earlier alleged attack.

"Coming Home,'' a portrait of the Arts Society building by David Brega, will be raffled off at Saturday's fund-raiser. Marshfield artist David Brega is wearing many hats for a retrospective show of a quarter-century of work painted in his second-floor studio at the GAR building, the home of the North River Arts Society.

But he is now trying to erase references to their meeting because he says he was 'shocked and horrified' to discover that Mrs Blair - although a Catholic - opposes the Vatican's teachings on sexual morality and had publicly supported pro-choice groups in the debate over abortion.

Three lacrosse players at a Connecticut college have been charged with conspiring to sexually assault a female student.

Growing up in suburban Boston, Jeff Corwin could have easily been more city kid than nature buff.

When Marshfield math teacher Jean Kelley suggested last year that her friend Spring Sirkin produce a play about mathematics, Sirkin was skeptical.

Corwin's book, "100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save Earth's Most Endangered Species," focuses on the few species that have joined the "100 heartbeats club," a phrase describing animal populations with 100 or fewer living in the wild.

In their first chance to publicly question the two finalists for the town's top job, selectmen last night peppered the two men about budget methodologies, economic development, union negotiations and even an emergency scenario complete with a derailed train and leaking chemicals.

Taylor Jacobson, Lawrence University senior vocal performance major, will perform with Central Chamber Chorale in a 7:30 p.m. concert Sunday at Christ Lutheran Church, 1208 W. 14th St.

Skip Bennett is owner of Island Creek Oysters, based in Duxbury. The town's 35 small aquaculture businesses grow oysters offshore and harvest them for market, said Duxbury's conservation administrator, Joe Grady.

MassHousing has secured loans of up to $70.5 million for three affordable housing projects in Dorchester, Roxbury, Boston and Marshfield.

Lawsuits against two meat companies claim a Massachusetts girl and a Rhode Island boy were sickened by ground beef contaminated by E. coli bacteria.

Can Gisele Bndchen be any hotter? The pregnant supermodel is well on her way to getting a pilot's license to fly helicopters.