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NEW BEDFORD - The city's Police Department will analyze crime statistics to determine where to place acoustic sensors that could help officers investigate and solve cases... Full Story »

NEW BEDFORD - A former vocational school teacher has been found not guilty of raping a 14-year-old female student after a week-long trial in Superior Court, reports the Full Story »

Traffic has slowed to a crawl along Route 128 in Lexington today after a dump truck collided with a car in the southbound lane, police said. State police Sgt. Dave Mahan... Full Story »

MALDEN - Massachusetts Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester recommended today that charter schools in Springfield and Lowell be closed, citing concerns for the students'... Full Story »

Two women driving a filthy Lincoln Navigator robbed a Brighton bank today but were stopped moments later when they tried to flee onto the Boston College campus, said police,... Full Story »

NEWARK, N.J. - New Jersey's largest newspaper is getting a new publisher. Penn Jersey Advance President Richard Vezza will assume the additional role of publisher... Full Story »

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. - A former Massachusetts man accused of killing a Wesleyan University student in a bookstore cafe is undergoing a mental health evaluation to help determine... Full Story »

BOURNE - The independent audit of the school department's books for the past two years indicates across-the-board deficiencies in the school's accounting practices... Full Story »

SANDWICH - A month after Maxine Minkoff was told she was about to be laid off, her office at Sandwich High School looks as if she'll be back any minute. A paper coffee... Full Story »

Taunton Mayor Charles Crowley called School Superintendent Julie Hackett from his vacation today and asked her to apologize both privately and publicly to the family of an... Full Story »

NORTHAMPTON - A former cook at a Northampton restaurant has been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to beating a co-worker with a crowbar during a... Full Story »

NORTH ATTLEBORO , - Authorities have identified the man whose dead body was found wrapped in a rug and left in a vacant lot in North Attleboro. Police say 32-year-old Henry... Full Story »

Cops are looking for the public's help in the hunt for the man who gunned down a Milton jake in an apparent act of road rage early Sunday morning. Milton firefighter... Full Story »

BOSTON - Police say a Boston man wanted for drug trafficking tried to hide his identity by cutting off his fingertips. State Police spokesman David Procopio said Monday... Full Story »

LOWELL - The trial of a former Massachusetts high school football star accused of assaulting his girlfriend has been delayed after authorities sought time to provide immunity... Full Story »

SPRINGFIELD - State Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester says mismanagement and fraud at the troubled Robert Hughes Academy in Springfield should be grounds to revoke its... Full Story »

BRAINTREE - The winning numbers drawn Monday night in the CASH Winfall game were: 8-10-17-27-43-46 (eight, ten, seventeen, twenty-seven, forty-three, forty-six) There... Full Story »

Some 200 students at the Excel Academy Charter School in East Boston were evacuated yesterday morning when a maintenance man working on the heating system unwittingly released... Full Story »

A judge facing public scrutiny for letting an accused child rapist out on low bail was on a similar hot seat in 1999 after he freed a bail jumper who went on to kill a Holyoke... Full Story »

The cash-strapped Hub yesterday moved to recoup the $76,000 taxpayer-funded salary of a union boss who spends much of his time out of town serving firefighters in other states... Full Story »

It's a cheap shot that ought to be heard round the world - a warning for historic sites everywhere. Suspected scrap thieves pried off the historic "Old Belfry"... Full Story »

For the second time in as many months, a teenager has accepted responsibility for taking part in the Sept. 29, 2007, murder of Revere police officer Daniel Talbot. Gia... Full Story »

It's rare to be able to skate on the same ice as the Boston Bruins. It's even rarer to skate the Red Sox infield. But for two days next month, 3,000 Boston... Full Story »

A state police K-9 officer's dogged attention to detail helped bring a suspected murderer and his accused accomplice to speedy justice - while sparing the victim's... Full Story »

SPRINGFIELD - State Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester says he will ask the state to revoke the charter of the troubled Robert Hughes Academy in Springfield. Chester... Full Story »