Plymouth News

Grand jurors heard evidence last week in the hit-and-run death of a Buzzards Bay teen early New Year's Day, according to sources with knowledge of the investigation.

This week in state government and public affairs: a hotel full of Democrats - a non-union hotel full of Democrats - who had busted their humps to elect a Democratic governor three years ago decided Wednesday to picket said governor the next afternoon, politically wounding him and, in all likelihood, their own most fervently held causes.

PLYMOUTH, MA... The sponsors of the Plymouth Safe Driving Campaign - King Collision Centers, Commerce Insurance, the Plymouth Public Schools department and Plymouth Police Department - are hoping the same can't be said about a car they recently donated to Plymouth South High School's technical studies program.

Macedo, Dennis of Hingham, died on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. Beloved husband of Patricia Macedo of Hingham.

Robert F. "Bob" Herman Sr., died peacefully after a short but courageous battle with cancer surrounded by his loving family on Friday, Jan.

George Cosmo, aged 77 years, of Middleboro, died on Mon. January 25, 2010, at Jordan Hospital, Plymouth, after a long illness.

The SUV that investigators believe struck and killed a Buzzards Bay teen in a hit-and-run crash early New Year's Day has been released by the police.

Share + Jan 27, 2010 11:46 pm US/Eastern Reporting Paul Burton Nine year old Benjamin Jean sits in the family room in Plymouth, Mass.

Application packages for grants from the Makepeace Neighborhood Fund are now available, with applications due March 9. The Makepeace Neighborhood Fund was established in 2005 as a way for the A.D. Makepeace Co.

An abutter's lawsuit has stalled the town's four-unit John Hinckley Jr. affordable housing project on Route 6A near the Orleans-Brewster boundary.

Two candidates in contention for the post of Montpelier school superintendent will be in the capital city today and Friday to meet with school faculty and staff, as well as the public.

Fulmer Helmets, a motorcycle helmet manufacturer with over 40 years of experience in the motorcycle industry, has merged operations with newly acquired Texport, a Plymouth, Massachusetts-based motorcycle apparel brand.

Holly V. Cochrane has joined Rogers & Gray Insurance Agency as an employee benefits sales executive in the agency's Plymouth office.

A special Senate race in Massachusetts that Democrats thought was safe weeks ago is heading into the final turn in a dead heat.

Patrons attending Chatham Drama Guild's latest show will be greeted by women in purple, asking the female audience members to please check their hats.

PLYMOUTH, Mass. - A 76-year-old Plympton woman has been ordered to serve two months of home confinement after pleading guilty to striking and killing a 7-year-old boy with her car.

Chelsea woman claiming to be homeless was taken into police custody early Sunday morning after allegedly trying to break into an old flame's home by lighting magazine pages on fire and slipping them under his door, police report.

You ever just get in the car and go for a little drive only by the time you know it you're way past anywhere you normally go? That's how we wound up in Plymouth today, where the kidlet had her first ever chance to be singularly unimpressed by the Rock, but where she did enjoy some clam chowder at a restaurant on a dock.

Best-selling author and Newburyport psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow suffered a blow to the head and a headache but said he is thankful nothing worse happened after he was attacked by a murder suspect he was evaluating yesterday afternoon.

A former Plymouth County Sheriff's Department deputy sheriff who worked as a mechanic for the department was accused by the state Ethics Commission this week of funneling department business to a supplier after the supplier gave him a free used police car.