Norton News

Norton police arrested a man at gunpoint last night when he allegedly approached a youth baseball game with a powerful explosive in the trunk of his car.

NORTON, Mass. - A Norton man is facing charges after police say they found a suspected homemade bomb in his car.

The Travelers Championship is over. So for those in the New England still interested in attending a PGA Tour Event, the only one left is the Deutsche Bank Championship, the second of four stops in the final four Fed Ex Cup playof race, in Norton, Mass.

Hannaford Supermarkets is warning its customers in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont to check their freezers for recalled beef.

The Maine Warden Service has recovered the body of a Massachusetts man who fell from a canoe while fishing on a central Maine lake.

Everyone knows money buys influence. The entire lobbying industry is based on that premise.

As they were steering General Motors into bankruptcy at early this month, the President Goodwrench team arranged for the United Auto Workers' pension fund to get 30 percent of the stock when the "new" company comes out at the other end.

The government, which is investing $30 billion in GM while it wends its way through bankruptcy court, will own about 60% of the "new GM," to be created through the sale of the company's good assets to a new holding company.

Senior Travel Genie , a website dedicated to online travel reviews, advice and information for those ages 50+, today announced it has re-launched its site to better meet the needs of seniors and baby boomers.

No other lawmaker has managed to halt the GM ax. As chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Frank oversees the government's bailout program, known as TARP.

One of the many problems with the federal government controlling a private company like GM is that each Congressman in Washington will be looking our for their own state or district's interests - even if that works against the interest of the company they are running.

Only the bravest eaters would order the Double Dare wings, possibly the hottest on the planet, but most folks come to Wendell's Pub to enjoy their crispy Buffalo wings in the normal range of spiciness.

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We now know that the bankruptcy of General Motors will have an immediate impact on jobs at a GM warehouse in Norton and some of the companya TMs 98 dealerships in the state.

Al Lamoureux of the United Auto Workers of America Local 422 said Monday that GM plans to transfer the Massachusetts jobs to its Philadelphia operation by the end of the year.

26, 1879, London, Eng. Main physician, writer, and reformer, one of the first American women to hold a medical degree and to become a professor of medicine in an American college.

A woman hired to make sushi says she is owed at least 11 weeks of pay. When she complained about the problem, she says she was fired.

PROS The screened porch, which runs the length of the house, is a huge plus, as is the pastoral setting, with old-growth trees and a partially fenced-in yard.

It's going to be a busy graduation season for Gov. Deval Patrick. Wheaton College announced Friday the governor will speak at its May 16 graduation in Norton, Mass.

Linda Eisenmann, dean of the college of arts and sciences at John Carroll University, has been named provost of Wheaton College in Norton, Mass.