Taunton News

I look forward to moderating the Baker/Mihos debate, and to watching this thoughtful, somewhat stiff non-politician try to evolve into a lightning rod for the public's palpable discontent." - Jon Keller, WBZ.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL WORCESTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS... SOUTH CENTRAL MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS... * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 245 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE ...

Officers responded to 18 motor vehicle crashes and 3 disturbances as well as seveal other service calls such as parking complaints and house alarms.

The damp and drizzly June weather will make for more mosquitoes this summer, according to experts.

A car is removed from a flooded section of Quinsigamond Avenue in Worcester this morning.

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So I start seeing a burst of comments about Stone Cold Derek Lindsay, the fightinest dad in Taunton, Massachusetts, and I'm like, "No way could he get arrested, he's in jail!" Way! Even though Lindsay's 142nd arrest--for attempted murder [!]--was just last March, he was apparently walking the streets June 4th, where he spit in a woman's face and ...

Editor's note: This is the first in a multi-part series on ballot questions in this November's elections.

The past 12 months or so have probably been the worst in newspaper history. A terrible national economy, changing reader habits and the loss of classified advertising dollars to a host of free commerce sites online have killed nearly 150-year-old newspapers in Denver and Seattle.

By Stewart Bishop, Globe Correspondent A fast-rising tide trapped two teenagers on the roof of their car Monday night in Wellfleet, requiring a rescue by the local fire department.

A swim coach at North Attleboro High School is under arrest facing child porn charges.

All Jon Timothy can do is look out his rain-streaked window at the empty driving range at Max's Golf in Tyngsboro yesterday, where he is manager.

Massachusetts state police are investigating the cause of a fatal crash on Interstate 95 near Attleboro that left a toddler and a 30-year-old Taunton man dead.

Overcast skies and chilly weather may not be ideal summer conditions for most of us, but for certain pesky insects, it's paradise.

TAUNTON, Mass. - A prosecutor said a 10-month-old boy may have been rammed into a closet door in an attack intended to kill him "with extreme atrocity and cruelty." Prosecutor Cynthia Brackett said in her opening statement at the murder trial of Manuel Antonio Lopez that he abused his girlfriend's baby after she left the child in his care.

A Taunton man has been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly beating his 4-month old puppy so severely that it suffered broken ribs and internal injuries.

Valedictorian Lauren Sullivan, a large animal major from Easton, is the daughter of James and Kathy Sullivan.

Before a nail-biting tie vote on the day after former House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi was indicted for contract-rigging, angry pols blamed the Hub's two newspapers for scrutiny of Evacuation Day and Bunker Hill Day - and declared they would not be pushed around.

Saying that he was scared for his life and his family, David 'Crunchy' DePina refused to identify the man he was with in May 2006, when they shot several rounds at two men in downtown New Bedford, killing one and wounding the other.