Plainville News

Faced with steep cuts in state aid, some cities and towns are starting to consider adopting new local taxes on hotel rooms and restaurant meals to bring in additional revenue.

Deval Patrick 's pronouncement that it would be "very difficult" to repeat in a tough budget year rife with spending cuts and layoffs.

A man accused of fatally stabbing his blind aunt at her Plainville home and hiding her body in a closet has been indicted, moving his case to Superior Court.

An informal discussion about youths and alcohol at a church breakfast last winter has blossomed into a shared effort in Wrentham, Plainville, and Norfolk to return Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or DARE, to the King Philip Regional Middle School.

Shortly after nine on Tuesday night Plainville firefighters were dispatched to the vicinity of 75 Walnut Street for a possible house fire.

A 64-year-old man was killed when he apparently lost control of his motorcycle on Route 1 in Wrentham, police said.

When Dorothy Baker of Plainville left her administrative job at a car dealership in Sharon last year, she was certain of only one thing about her future employment: It was time for a change.

A communitya s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic.

Fresh Sound New Talent Former Either/Orchestra saxophonist Jeremy Udden's sophomore album, Plainville is dedicated to his rural Massachusetts hometown of the same name.

In just a little over three weeks, the dead in Norfolk County include two children under age 10, a teenager, a 7-month-old fetus, and a 56-year-old blind aunt who lived alone in Plainville.

Apr 18, 2009 10:21 am US/Eastern Reporting Christina Hager FOXBORO They are scouring woods, motels, and liquor stores looking for kids drinking alcohol.

Some town leaders say the federal stimulus package, with its promise of creating jobs, is neglecting to invest in the cornerstones of community life, from new city halls to recreation centers.

With no hope of closing a $1.3 million deficit by increasing property taxes, officials in Plainville have started experimenting with ways to cut expenses, including shutting off street lights in areas that are seen as not threatening public safety.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. & PLAINVILLE, Mass. - The FBI confirms to Call For Action Robert John Josephson Junior is dead.

Nephew denied bail in aunt's slaying WRENTHAM - A man accused of fatally stabbing his blind aunt at her Plainville home and hiding her body in a closet has been ordered held without bail.

Authorities say a Massachusetts man is expected to be arraigned on a murder charge.

A pedestrian was hit and killed Saturday night on South St. in Plainville, MA. Police tell ABC 6 News that Donna Hanlon of Plainville was crossing the street in front of the police and fire station, when she ...

Live racing to begin at Plainridge Racecourse Friday, March 06, 2009 - by Robert Lieberman Plainville, MA --- After a snowstorm dropped seven to ten inches of snow over the Northeast this past weekend, Gerald ...

'Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!' the boy says. The famous author just keeps smiling.

And why the heck would Jeff Kinney be doing anything else?

Three years ago, Kinney was a failed cartoonist who couldn't get in the door at a comics convention. Literally. When he arrived at New York Comic Con -- where he was hoping to show off a sample of the half-cartoon, half-prose opus he had worked on for eight years -- he discovered that the convention was sold out.

Giving up and going home was an option he seriously considered.

Mar 1, 2009 2:00 pm US/Eastern PLAINVILLE A quick thinking 7-year-old boy is credited with getting his father help when the man fell off an all-terrain vehicle in Plainville Friday night.