Brockton News

An elementary school teacher from Rockland has been arrested on child rape charges.

ROCKLAND, Mass. - An elementary school teacher from Rockland has been arrested on child rape charges.

Police responded to the Punjab Store on Tremont Street at 4 p.m. Sunday to investigate a teen inside suspected of using counterfeit $50 bills to purchase T-Mobile cards the day before, according to a police ...

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The holidays have turned out to be a season of giving for a local arts group, which announced a $1.1 million land donation from a businessman as a possible future site for its proposed arts center.

4 on the topic of marijuana: They want simple possession treated as a civil infraction, more like a parking ticket than a serious crime, with a maximum fine of $100. Other laws involving marijuana stay in ...

A Randolph Burger King manager was shot three times during an armed robbery Friday night.

Two Brockton, Mass., girls injured when a tree fell on the car they were riding in on a highway in New Jersey were listed in stable condition last night at the University Hospital in Newark.

Mutual Bank, an independent community bank with nine branches including ones in Brockton, Falmouth, Middleboro and now Plymouth, opened its newest location at 2 Pilgrim Hill Road in Plymouth on Dec.

Washington, D.C., attorney Dennis J. Whittlesey who brokered the agreement for the town, told selectmen Chairman Adam Bond the town should review the contract now that the former tribal chairman, Glenn Marshall ...

The murder trials of two former Bridgewater State College students have stirred memories of the troublesome year of 2006, when drinking plagued the town and the school.

Authorities said yesterday that they have foiled a plot to retaliate against the Brockton police officer who shot and killed a reputed gang member last month.

On Dec. 6, President-elect Obama announced the three major pillars of his economic recovery plan: rebuild our roads/bridges, enhance our schools including broadband, and deploy electronic health records for ...

Massachusetts Doctors' Group Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit A Brockton, Massachusetts-area medical group and four doctors being sued by the widow of a man struck and killed by a patient has asked that the suit be ...

Governor Deval Patrick said that he urged top officials on the Obama transition team yesterday to draft a stimulus package that would give state leaders the ability to infuse money into a variety of areas, ...

Highway drivers may find themselves facing a fine if they don't steer clear of emergency vehicles whose flashing lights could soon mean slow down and move over.

The City of Champions has identified $327 million in projects - from overhauling city streets to restoring public housing - that would create more than 3,000 jobs.

A Brockton-area medical group and four doctors being sued by the widow of a man struck and killed by a patient has asked that the suit be dismissed.

Boxer Tim Flamos works out these days in the garage of his longtime friend and trainer, Joe Ennis.

Rita W. Dolge, 86, passed away Tuesday in Lake Havasu City. She was born Sept. 10, 1922, in Hyde Park, Mass., to John and Marie Griffin.