Taunton News

Coyle and Cassidy High School in Taunton invites sixth, seventh or eighth grade students and their families to an open house, from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov.

Authorities have charged a Massachusetts man who took to the hospital the corpse of a Deerfield Beach visitor who had been beaten to death.

Supposedly, the rest of the country should look at Massachusetts to witness the nirvana of universal health care.

Authorities have charged a Taunton man who brought the corpse of a visitor who had been beaten to death at his home to the hospital.

Share + Nov 4, 2009 7:14 pm US/Eastern Reporting Bill Shields The doors at the Raynham-Taunton dog track just closed a little tighter today, after the State Racing Commission denied a request for simulcasting after January 1, 2010.

Bristol County District Attorney Samuel Sutter's office is investigating a homicide that happened last night in Taunton.

Casinos. Resort-style gambling. Slot machines at race tracks. Video lottery terminals.

Deval Patrick unveiled another round of budget cuts yesterday to close a $600 million shortfall, a legislative committee considered measures to expand gambling in Massachusetts.

The community of American maritime carriers and operating unions in Washington, DC has raised $15,000 to help build specially adapted homes for American veterans who have selflessly given to our country and have returned home from Iraq or Afghanistan with serious disabilities and injuries.

A Taunton man is headed to court to face charges that he killed a gas station clerk last weekend.

District Attorney Sam Sutter and acting Taunton Police Chief John Reardon announced today that Steven Foster, 37, of 68 Broadway, Taunton, has been charged with committing last night's homicide in Taunton.

Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a 45-year-old man inside a gas station on Sunday night.

Where the salt water of Buttermilk Bay meets the cold water springs that feed Red Brook, sea-run trout find the right conditions to lay their eggs, burying them under the stream-bed's gravel to hide them from predators.

The measure would have continued a pilot program that allows AAA to provide driver's license and car registration renewal at their offices.

Sheet Flatness Achieved Without Distortion: A special forming tool embosses stainless steel exterior wall panels for a spectacular Manhattan condominium.

THIS ADVISORY IS FOR THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MASSACHUSETTS...MAINLY ABOVE 1000 FEET.

After pleading guilty to charges of assault and battery, disorderly conduct and threats to commit a crime Thursday at Wareham District Court, Derek Lindsay, 36, of Taunton, has 72 criminal convictions on his record since 1990.

"We're trying to overturn ballot question 3 so we can continue live racing," said Linda Jenson, a Plainfield, Conn.-based breeder and president of nonprofit Protection of Working Animals and Handlers Inc.

Molly L. Leitman, 90, died peacefully Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, surrounded by those who loved her at the Mark Wentworth Home in Portsmouth.

Sitting in a cramped Humvee commanding hundreds of combat missions in Baghdad two years ago, Capt.