Milton News

Rain, thunder, lightning, hail, a tornado. Can the locusts be far behind? We've reached our soggy bottom.

Get your grill on with lump hardwood charcoal. It's grilling season again, and while some may be satisfied to use whatever off-the-shelf briquettes they can find, PinchOfSalt demands more: lump hardwood charcoal, preferably not the Cowboy brand that seems to be the most widely available.

A respect for others. "And the most important thing," Regine said yesterday, "was to always stick together.

Helen C. Mankevetch took over driving duties from her late husband several years ago when his health was failing.

You can tell a lot about people by the way they handle money, and we've learned a lot about our politicians lately.

DORSETa S Lord Lieutenant, a former Bishop of Canberra, and an American visitor lent a cosmopolitan flavour to a quintessentially English occasion in North Dorset.

Associated Press QUINCY - Authorities say an Iraq war veteran has died after hitting his head on rocks while swimming at a Quincy quarry.

Fifty years ago on the Blue Hills Reservation, white-tailed deer were not as common as they are now.

A 4-year-old girl is in critical condition, after she was struck by a car driven by an elderly woman in Stoughton today.

"The fact is we need action, and it should not require the tragedy we saw this weekend in order to get that action," said Gov.

Jun 15, 2009 8:38 pm US/Eastern STOUGHTON 1 of 4 Diya Patel WBZ 2 of 4 Diya Patel's father weeps for his daughter.

T he family of the preschooler killed riding her scooter through a Stoughton crosswalk begged for a crackdown on elderly drivers yesterday, as the 88-year-old reportedly behind the wheel waited quietly at her assisted living apartment in Canton to see if she would face charges.

No explanation has been forthcoming to explain why Kerby Revelus snapped one spring afternoon.

Authorities identified the woman whose body was found smoldering in the Blue Hills Reservation last Saturday.

One ring marks the promise to marry, another the honor of that promise held true.

Richard Birchall, a lawyer from Orleans, shown in this April 19, 2007 file photo, is lead in to Orleans District Court a day after barricading himself in his house on Brick Hill Road in Orleans.

The one saving grace of the bomb threat called into the principal of the Pierce Middle School today was that it came at the end of the school day.

Hundreds of children are raising money for cancer research this weekend in a series of charitable bike rides around Massachusetts.

Today, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick will deliver the Commencement address to the Class of 2009 and receive an honorary degree.

Carmen M. Ortiz, who grew up poor in New York City's Spanish Harlem neighborhood and became a state and then a federal prosecutor in Massachusetts, is poised to become the first woman and the first Hispanic US attorney in the state.