Malden News

Share + Nov 7, 2009 5:47 pm US/Eastern SALEM, Mass. A motorcycle crash has killed the father of an autistic Massachusetts boy who died after his mother allegedly withheld cancer medication.

"Hold the dark holiday in your palms, Bite it, swallow it, and survive, Come out the far black tunnel of El Dia de Muerte And be glad, oh so glad you are ... alive!" From "The Halloween Tree" by Ray Bradbury In my backyard, my Halloween tree, a double maple, glows like fire at peak color.

Area municipal leaders are breathing a sigh of relief after Governor Deval Patrick spared cities and towns from the brunt of the spending cuts he announced last week.

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"The economic situation has hit people hard," said Karin Segal, clinical coordinator at a MetroWest Free Medical Program clinic in Sudbury, which is seeing 60 percent more patients than last year.

A Malden school teacher and lifelong New England Patriots fan is the first Massachusetts Lottery player to win a pair of season tickets for life in the football team's new instant game.

Three potential buyers each claim to have deals to buy some or all of Super 88's stores.

Rivers Edge Park, pictured above, was recently developed along with office buildings and an apartment complex along the Malden River in Medford.

Politics is a family affair in Malden - some say a three-family affair. The Fallons, Luceys, and Spadaforas have wielded power in local government for decades.

The following items were recorded in the log of the Amesbury police: Blake R. Smith, 18, 10 Summer St., Amesbury, was arrested Tuesday at 2:51 p.m., charged with domestic assault and battery.

This election season, incumbents and challengers have been at each othera s throats in every political race except one.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic frontrunner to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, didn't prosecute the notorious Fells Acres Day Care case.

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US Representative Edward Markey discussed health care changes at Arlington Town Hall on Monday evening.

NYC Mayor and former Medford resident Michael Bloomberg is pictured at left at John Brewer's Tavern in Malden in August.

T he same jury that declared itself deadlocked Friday yesterday convicted Bernard Piscopo, 40, of voluntary manslaughter for the June 17, 2007, fatal stabbing of Adam Rich of Revere in a South Boston tavern.

A man accused of fatally stabbing an exotic dancer outside her Everett apartment building is headed to court.

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Son: Slain mom, 100, 'threatened' by roommate DARTMOUTH - The roommate of a 100-year-old woman found strangled in her bed at a nursing home had made 'threatening' remarks to the centenarian, her son said Friday, and the slain woman's family had sought to have the women split up.

Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone held a press conference with state police to provide details of the arrest.