Norfolk News

Here come the boomers. Heavy thunderstorms bearing lightning, heavy rain, hail, and damaging winds are rampaging through areas of eastern and central Massachusetts this afternoon, forecasters said.

Jason Wayne Spurlin, 31, was arraigned at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center today on drunken driving charges and motor vehicle homicide for the deaths of his fiancee, Amanda Murray, 23, and Walpole couple Nicholas Kelly and Anna Dubois, both 20.

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In each of the past three legislative sessions, Sen. Brian Joyce has filed a bill that would require Massachusetts elderly drivers to resubmit to vision and road-testing when they reach age 85.

Timothy Deschamps says that fighting mosquitoes is forever. 'Mosquito control is a year-round job.

Investigators say they hope a distinctive set of three rings may help them identify a body found smoldering in the Blue Hills Reservation.  Norfolk District Attorney William Keating said Tuesday that a hiker found the remains on Saturday.  The medical examiner has not determined how the person died or the gender.

Mass Pike toll collector Paul E. Moccia, 48, murdered Angel Ramirez because he couldn't afford to pay his $70,000 drug debt, and then enlisted his friend to help make the body disappear, Norfolk Assistant District Attorney Robert Nelson alleged today during an arraignment.

Authorities say the number of confirmed swine flu cases in Massachusetts has jumped to 529 after health officials identified 61 new infections.

May 22, 2009 6:10 pm US/Eastern Reporting Ron Sanders MEDWAY Victims of home burglaries are hoping their lost goods may be among hundreds of pieces of recovered jewelry and electronics in Medway.

State health officials say they have confirmed eight new swine flu cases in Massachusetts, raising the total to 115 since last month.

May 7, 2009 11:42 am US/Eastern DNA test kits of the the influenza A or Swine Flu virus prepared by PrimerDesign Ltd are displayed at the company laboratory in Southampton on May 2, 2009.

Key developments on the swine flu outbreak in Massachusetts: CONFIRMED CASES: The state Public Health Department has confirmed 11 new cases, bringing the total in the state to 45.

Authorities have identified the man and woman who died in an apparent murder-suicide at a Braintree motel.

The April 24, 2009 episode of Driving Business with the Chamber on WDIS AM 1170, a radio station in Norfolk, Mass.

A pregnant Massachusetts woman accused of killing her 9-year-old daughter and stabbing herself in the stomach to kill her unborn child could be arraigned in her hospital bed on Friday, a district attorney said.

A legislative committee on Monday rebuffed Gov. Deval Patrick's effort to raise the pay of two county sheriffs and began a process that the committee co-chairmen say could lead to the elimination of two sheriffs' offices.

Date set for New England awards program Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - by Jack Ginnetti Marlborough, MA --- Add reunion to this year's gala Labor Day weekend celebration at Plainridge Racecourse.

A Massachusetts prison officer is facing drug charges after Rhode Island police say he had four pounds of marijuana mailed to his Providence home.

Franklin Performing Arts Company will present Robert Chauls' Alice in Wonderland, a one act opera for the entire family on Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 3:00 pm at the FSPA recital hall.

"In what has been described by veterans of nearly a quarter of a century on up as the worst crime scene they've ever seen, we have a situation where at least because of the quick action of police the life of one person was saved," said Norfolk District Attorney William Keating.