Brockton News

A former Willowbend Country Club employee who said she was dismissed because of her age and then retaliated against has been awarded nearly $1 million by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

DATELINE: PEMBROKE, PLYMOUTH AND RAYNHAM, MAa The event was well received and over 100 people attended including those in the insurance industry and vendors.

City Councilor Linda Balzotti has defeated incumbent Brockton Mayor James Harrington.

Lawsuits against two meat companies claim a Massachusetts girl and a Rhode Island boy were sickened by ground beef contaminated by E. coli bacteria.

Janet Torren of Rochester with Shai, who was given away by the Stoughton animal control officer.

Stoughton's animal control officer has been fired for allegedly giving a stray dog away, even though she would have known how to find its owner.

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - A Brockton man who allegedly carved out a modest crime wave for himself last weekend here in western Massachusetts is under arrest.

Police in Ludlow are working with their counterparts in two other communities to determine if a 28-year-old Brockton man who held up a convenience store here at knifepoint Sunday night was responsible for other recent robberies.

DATELINE: PLYMOUTH COUNTY AND AVON; EASTON AND STOUGHTON, MAa Old Colony Elder Services of Brockton, one of 27 private, non-profit Aging Services Access Points in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts explained that the waiting list was imposed on September 8th and forty one days later, more than 1,000 people are waiting.

Massachusetts health officials say a Brockton meat company has voluntarily recalled beef products after more than 20 school children and adults from Rhode Island were sickened by E. coli.

Police are looking for a man who held up an O' Connell's Convenience Plus clerk at knife point Sunday.

Once the flu strikes a workplace, it can spread easily and quickly, experts say.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today overturned the conviction of a man arrested in Brockton for illegal gun possession because the trooper who'd pulled over the cab he was riding in and found his gun didn't have enough justification to search him in the first place.

Share + Oct 23, 2009 10:15 am US/Eastern STOUGHTON, Mass. A Stoughton animal control officer is on paid leave after allegedly giving a loose dog away as a gift, even though she would have known how to find its owner.

Linda Balzotti, a Brockton city councilor, will debate Mayor James Harrington. A debate between incumbent Brockton Mayor James Harrington and his opponent in the Nov.

Share + Oct 21, 2009 2:33 pm US/Eastern Sounds like it could be a case of dog-napping and the accused thief is a dog catcher! A local woman has been reunited with her expensive pet, but she thinks a Stoughton Animal Control officer tried to take her beloved dog .

Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz today announced that Marvin Taitt of Brockton has been charged in connection with the shooting death of Steven Saint Louis which occurred on 09/05/09 in the City of Brockton.

GateHouse Media New England, owner of 100 Massachusetts newspapers, including the Patriot Ledger in Quincy and the Enterprise of Brockton, is reversing the pay cuts it implemented over the summer, according to a memo sent to employees today.

Police in Avon say a man picked the wrong bank to rob yesterday morning. Demetrius James, 19, of Columbia, S.C., is accused of trying to hold up Avon Cooperative Bank, which is right across the street from the town's police headquarters, the Brockton Enterprise reports.

He sexually assaulted several children in the 1970's and has been in custody since.