Taunton News

Lizzie Borden has been found innocent of using an ax to hack her father and stepmother to death -- again.

Massachusetts, which fashions itself the nation's leader in thanking veterans with government benefits, went further last week week, increasing cash bonuses for repeated tours of duty, taking the controversial step of permitting faxed and e-mailed votes from overseas, and trying to hook up more returning veterans with business opportunities.

District Attorney Sam Sutter announced today that Nelson Melo, 32, of 584 Bay St., has been charged with the November 3rd murder of Chad Fleming in Taunton.

TAUNTON, Mass. - Prosecutors have dropped charges against an Attleboro man accused of attempting to drag a 13-year-old boy into the woods.

It's afternoon snack time at Northeastern University and a constant stream of students heads towards a vending machine with a cow on the front.

It takes the "Tiger" to drive wharf pilings into the muddy and sometimes grouty bottoms of Cape Ann's coves and harbors.

Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech Class of 1994 will hold its 15-year reunion Nov. 20 at the Hawthorne Country Club.

A Taunton mother is demanding answers after her six-year-old son was told to walk home from school instead of waiting for his ride.

District Attorney Sam Sutter announced today that an Assonet man has been charged in the Nov.

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.