Quincy News

Acupuncturist Claire McManus watches a pair of sea turtles, who are recovering from a stranding, swim at the New England Aquarium's animal car center in Quincy, Mass., Monday May 20, 2013.

On a sunny afternoon, it's common to find 10-year-old Owen Norton playing baseball in the backyard of his Braintree home.

Arbella Insurance Foundation in Quincy, Mass. plans to fight texting while driving by offering a discount on a text-blocking technology, Trigger.

Raymond Alongi actually learned six months ago he wouldn't be leaving Quincy, Mass., for a $250,000 a year cooking gig in Las Vegas - but he says the memory still stings.

The owners of a Bridge Street apartment building, which the city describes as "unsafe," have until the end of Thursday to bring the building up to code, or find the tenants new homes, according to a city notice.

The Somersworth Housing Authority Board of Directors has voted to terminate Executive Director Elizabeth Salinger, who has been on a paid leave of absence since November.

HINGHAM: Police believe a Milton man and Quincy woman targeted a Hingham neighborhood early Sunday morning to steal valuables from unlocked vehicles.

A 48-year-old Quincy man has been identified by Braintree police as the person behind an ATM theft at F1 Boston earlier this year and the attempted theft of money from a safe at a Braintree business on Saturday.

The Patriot Ledger reports that a water sample test conducted by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority earlier this month detected a type of brown algae that gives off a rotten egg smell from the hydrogen sulfide gas emitted when it dries in the sunlight.

Police say a Quincy, Massachusetts woman is facing charges for allegedly punching a restaurant worker who put "too many pickles" on her steak and cheese sandwich.

In a Massachusetts town where no one has ever died in a drone strike and no one is likely to for the foreseeable future, it is nevertheless unnerving to hear an unidentified aircraft buzzing overhead.

Jessica Satterfield is living in an $800-a-month apartment she found advertised on Craigslist that the city says is one of three illegal apartments in a building that is "unsafe," "hazardous" and rife with gas, electrical, plumbing, health, and safety violations.

A Massachusetts woman was arrested for allegedly punching a restaurant worker in the face for putting too many pickles on her steak and cheese sandwich.

A Quincy woman is facing an assault charge for allegedly punching a restaurant worker for putting too many pickles on her steak and cheese sandwich, police said Monday.

Robin Joyce Prince of Dartmouth, slipped away on Saturday, May 11, with her family by her side.

After calling Quincy home for a century, the South Shore Chamber of Commerce is moving out of a historic mansion in the city to a smaller, more modern space in Rockland.

Photos of one of the planes that have been flying over Quincy, Mass., show that, despite suspicions, the aircraft is not a drone.

For the past two weeks residents of Quincy, Massachusetts have had to put up with a mysterious low-flying aircraft above the city.

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QUINCY, Mass. - Residents of a Quincy senior apartment complex near the ocean are used to the full spectrum of sea scents wafting over their building.