Brockton News

The median on Blue Hill Avenue where the Silver Line may have been placed. Massachusetts has missed an opportunity to tap into as much as $147 million in grant money available under the federal stimulus package because of a deep disagreement between the Patrick administration and residents of Roxbury and Mattapan.

The 44-year-old Westgate Mall in Brockton has struggled over the years but has found ways to survive.

The New Bedford School Department has launched a sister-city project with the Cape Verdean islands of Sao Filipe and Santa Cruz in a partnership that includes the Wareham and Brockton schools and Bridgewater State College.

When Cape Cod native John Kendrick left Boston Sept. 30, 1787, on the first American-based voyage around the world, his crew must have felt some trepidation.

Two men were shot in Stoughton while trying to sell pit bull puppies out of their home on Wednesday, police said.

The Aging and Disability Resource Consortium of Southeastern Massachusetts recently hosted a conference titled A Community Together: Disabled and Elders.

Ita s the day after election day, and from Massachusetts to New jersey, some incumbent politicians are looking for a new job.

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.