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Senator Joyce Pushes for More Funds For Canton
As the Massachusetts Senate debates a number of proposed amendments to the Fiscal Year 2014 budget this week, two measures co-sponsored by Senator Brian A. Joyce have passed that would bring more state funding to Canton. Comment?
No strike today: UMass Memorial, nurses reach pact
UMass Memorial Medical Center and the Massachusetts Nurses Association reached an agreement late last night, averting a threatened strike set to begin today. Comment?
Tax returns show Gomez made nearly $3M in his best year at Advent
Gabriel Gomez, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, released tax returns Wednesday showing he earned about $10.1 million over the past six years as a private equity executive in Boston. Comment?
Mass. Senate bill would protect first responders
The Massachusetts Senate has passed a bill to ensure that off-duty first responders who provide emergency care are not subject to lawsuits. Comment?
Foreclosures Down in Wilmington, Across Middlesex County
... to Warren Group CEO Timothy M. Warren Jr. "Overall, we're seeing foreclosures drop all over the country, but Massachusetts is exceptional in its reduction. The Mortgage Bankers Association reports that we rank 48th in foreclosures started in the ... Comment?
... TO ALLEGED BOMBER KILLED : One man is dead and an agent is injured after a confrontation between the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing in the Orlando area on Wednesday morning. The FBI identified the ... Comment?
School Officials Look at Existing Buildings for Short-Term Space Needs
... or fall. Looking out beyond 2014, Dr. Kurzberg said school officials will be discussing their plans with the Massachusetts School Building Authority with the hope that the MSBA may help fund permanent modular classrooms or regular construction ... Comment?
Memorial Day 2013: Parades and events in Western Massachusetts
... Agawam: Parade, 10:30 a.m., starting at Town Hall and proceeding to the Veterans Green for a ceremony. At the Massachusetts Veterans Memorial Cemetery, a ceremony will be held at 1 p.m. near the flagpole at the main square. Public is advised to ... Comment?
Wiretapping charges dropped against Boxboro resident
... prosecutors' motion to drop three counts of unlawful wiretapping against Michael Diphillipo, formerly of 773 Massachusetts Ave., Apt. B9, dating to 2009. The decision to drop the charges came after a judge allowed a motion to suppress the seizure of ... Comment?
Ex-Mass. lawmaker facing meth trafficking charges
A former Massachusetts lawmaker who more recently worked as a tutor at a Boston charter school has been held on $10,000 bail after pleading not guilty to drug charges. Comment?
Murray 'could have been a contender'
... will have to operate without a lieutenant governor for the 19 months remaining on his second term. There is no Massachusetts constitutional provision to fill the office of lieutenant governor when it becomes vacant. Should the governor leave office ... Comment?
North Central Massachusetts Community Calendar
Lunenburg Community Council Meeting: Lunenburg Public Library, 1023 Massachusetts Ave.; 6:30 p.m. The council coordinates and supplements the activites of the voluntary organizations in Lunenburg. Comment?
Lowll Level 3 sex offender seeks release
... including 22 charges for assault and battery on a police officer, according to the website. According to the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry, Lucas, a Level 3 sex offender -- considered the most likely to re-offend -- was convicted in December ... Comment?
Leominster teen finalist in national pageant
Katrina Peppler, 13, of Leominster, has been chosen as a state finalist in the National American Miss Massachusetts Pageant to be held July 20-22 at Sturbridge Host Hotel. Comment?
Convicted rapist faces sentencing 30 years later
A man convicted of raping three women in Massachusetts faces sentencing more than three decades after he fled the state and began living a secret life in Maine. Comment?
Official: Man killed by FBI tied to killings
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Deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in a 2011 gruesome triple homicide outside Boston along with a Chechen killed early Wednesday during a confrontation with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in Orlando, Florida, a federal law enforcement official told CNN. Comment?
Berkshire County unemployment rate flat in April
... jobless rate remained unchanged, the Pittsfield area was the only one of 12 similar jurisdictions across Massachusetts to post a job loss. In the Pittsfield area, 200 jobs were lost between March and April, while 400 positions have been lost over ... Comment?
Hard-working volunteer brings his special skills to sanctuary's stone walls
... which will have a certain beauty," the stonemason recently reported. "I fell into it growing up in Eastern Massachusetts, in a rural farming community with mostly woods," he noted of his interest in the traditional craft, long practiced in rocky New ... Comment?
Officials discuss elimination of zoning bylaw use variances
... by town meeting in the future, he asked the assembled boards. Planning Board Chair Joel Avila noted that many Massachusetts communities have done away with provisions for use variances, or never allowed them in the first place. "Dartmouth is in the ... Comment?
CindySays: Strength training designed for children has positive results
... results. In fact, major studies according to Westcott and Dr. Avery Faigenbaum, at the University of Massachusetts, revealed significant strength improvements in boys and girls ages 10 to 14 after only eight weeks of sensible strength training. Even ... Comment?