Stoughton News

Police cited 32 motorists and arrested one person for drug possession as part of ongoing efforts to enforce crosswalk safety.

Eagle Scout candidate Daniel Noyes plans to refurbish at least 40 of the 115 memorial squares in town as part of his Eagle Scout project.

Janet Torren of Rochester with Shai, who was given away by the Stoughton animal control officer.

Karen Powers, owner of home-based Tails-In-Motion, received a business certificate from the town clerk's office on Feb.

Despite pooch-sitting centers popping up in Hub neighborhoods and throughout the Bay State, the businesses are "basically unregulated," said Brian Adams, spokesman for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Police say they have a report of a scam which tries to bilk people looking for a job out of $2,500. Officer Stewart Mellyn said a man brought a check into the station Thursday to see if it was real, along with copies of an e-mail correspondence.

Animal Control Officer Kristin Bousquet apologized for not being "100 percent truthful" about a silky Yorkshire terrier that she gave away to a friend of a police officer in September just three days after she found it.

DATELINE: PLYMOUTH COUNTY AND AVON; EASTON AND STOUGHTON, MAa Old Colony Elder Services of Brockton, one of 27 private, non-profit Aging Services Access Points in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts explained that the waiting list was imposed on September 8th and forty one days later, more than 1,000 people are waiting.

Haitian singer/songwriter Emeline Michel hits the stage at MCLA 's Church Street Center Wednesday, October 28, at 7:30 p.m. MCLA student Beverly M. Teixeira '13 will open the show.

The heavy flames were knocked down quickly, but firefighters on scene called for help to chase the stubborn blaze through the walls and ceilings of the building and into the structure next door, fire officials said.

A 39-year-old Stoughton man is being held without bail for the attempted murder of a woman during a domestic argument Wednesday morning.

Janet Torren with her dog Shai, a 4-year-old Silky Yorkshire terrier, at her Rochester home on Monday.

Selectmen appointed three residents to complete a five-member police chief search committee.

A stripper was found murdered in Everett early Friday morning. 26-year-old Sheila Santos was found behind her apartment building on Main Street around 4:30 a.m. Investigators won't say yet how she died, but they have ruled it a homicide.

At Christmas, six months after his 2007 graduation from Stoughton High School, Sam Angert told his parents he was enlisting in the Army.

As the recession hit last fall, food pantry organizers braced themselves for a surge in clients.

Police Lt. Michael Blount has agreed to settle a "in principle" a lawsuit he brought against the town and two former police chiefs, Town Manager Mark Stankiewicz said Monday.

Several weeks ago, FBI agents showed up at a Portuguese social club on Washington Street, startling members as they pulled two flat-screen televisions from the wall, checked the serial numbers on the back, and then carted them away.

Recently released 2009 MCAS scores reaffirm findings that West Elementary School results from spring 2008 were out of whack with typical student MCAS performance at that school.

At least two Stoughton residents were in U.S. First Circuit Court on Tuesday, one who produced a summons to appear before a federal grand jury at 9 a.m. The resident, who asked to remain anonymous, showed the summons to an Enterprise reporter, saying it related to a federal investigation into one or more Stoughton police officers.