Winthrop News

The Farmington Town Council is presenting a special award for courage to a 70-year-old woman who was the victim of a kidnapping after a Bristol bank robbery went sour.

Sail Boston's first Tall Ships opened for public viewing this morning at the Charlestown Navy Yard.

State legislative leaders unveiled a major overhaul of the state's ethics laws Wednesday, a move they hope will satisfy calls for reforms in the wake of political scandals.

Police have filed new charges against one of two Massachusetts men charged in a Bristol bank robbery earlier this month.

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.

Jun 17, 2009 7:15 am US/Eastern Wednesday commemorates a major battle in the Revolutionary War - the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Lawmakers made quick work of passing a state pension system reform bill that leaders said was a first step, but not the end of their hopes, to close many loopholes that allow for widespread abuses by state workers and legislators.

THE HOUSE AND SENATE. Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives' votes on three roll calls and local senators' votes on four roll calls from the week of June 1-5. TIE VOTE SAVES COUNTY HOLIDAYS ) The House, on a 78-78 tie vote, rejected an amendment that would have abolished Evacuation Day and Bunker Hill Day .

Two Massachusetts men have now officially been charged with robbing a Connecticut bank, leading to a police chase and shots fired.

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives' votes on three roll calls and local senators' votes on four roll calls from the week of June 1 to 5. 78-78 Tie Vote Saves Two Suffolk County-Only Holidays House, on a 78-78 tie vote, rejected a Republican-sponsored amendment that would have abolished the Suffolk County legal holidays of ...

Quick, why is June 17 a government holiday here and only here? If you answer, "Because the Battle of Bunker Hill took place on that day in 1775," you must be the scholarly sort.

Police say he led them on a chase, fired dozens of shots, and then broke into a house, holding the homeowner at gunpoint.

The Nebraska State Patrol seized 182.5 pounds of marijuana and arrested two Massachusetts residents.

The indictment of former House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi has heightened the pressure on Beacon Hill lawmakers to tackle the issue of ethics in state government at a time when many former colleagues of the Boston Democrat said the charges against DiMasi will inevitably paint them all in a bad light.

Two Massachusetts men, one from Northampton and one from Winthrop, are being held on charges stemming from a Connecticut bank robbery after a police chase, gunfire and a manhunt in Farmington.

McClatchy-Tribune Information Services -- Unrestricted Middle Hundreds of firefighters from dozens of Massachusetts communities lined the street in the pouring rain yesterday to pay their respects to a member of their "brotherhood." With some dressed in blue dress uniforms and white hats and others wearing their workday fire helmets, an estimated ...

A 20-year-old University of Colorado student is accused of yelling anti-gay epithets and assaulting two women in Provincetown, Mass.

A young man from Winthrop, Massachusetts, who faces possible jail time for charges in connection with the alleged assault on two women in Provincetown, was described by his neighbors as a "good kid," the Boston Herald reported in a May 26 article.

She worried about soldiers' feet getting cold, so she organized a drive to get socks to the war front.

PROINCETOWN, Mass. - A Massachusetts man has been charged with a hate crime after police say he beat up a woman while screaming anti-homosexual language on a crowded street in Provincetown.