Winthrop News

Beacon Hill was settled in 1625 and its always diverse history is traceable - and walkable - nearly 400 years later Sanctuary lamps near the altar at the Church of the Advent.

A Lowell convenience store is among more than 30 establishments across the state suspected of stealing Lottery winnings from unsuspecting patrons.

If you have never been there, you are missing out on a winner. My personal favorite is the baked stuffed haddock.

Every state in the country, except Massachusetts, allows consumers to redeem coupons when buying brand-name drugs.

I headed down to the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center's free flu clinic Saturday and stood in line with hundreds of residents from Chelsea, Revere, Winthrop and, of course, East Boston.

Roger Kizik's swashbuckling canvases brim with detail. His paints splatter and ooze, his colors bounce and shimmer, his patterns slash and curl.

Each year, thousands of children and young adults vanish without a trace . For families searching for their missing loved ones, it can become a costly and emotionally overwhelming pursuit.

Junior Sally Sharrow didna t need to stop for gas when she travelled through Massachusetts this summer.

Dr. Stephen Horenstein isn't asking for much; he only wants us to lend an ear. The 61-year-old Winthrop, Massachusetts-born Horenstein has been pushing the musical envelope in this country for nigh on three decades.

Winthrop is moving forward with plans to start a municipal boat ferry service with the help of $950,000 in federal money recently allocated to purchase the vessel.

A contractor was rescued after he became trapped underground during a water main break in Winthrop on Monday afternoon.

State Representative Paul Donato of Medford supported the move to provide funding for the Portal to Hope.

Eric Patten, the Winthrop, Massachusetts man who assaulted two lesbians in Provincetown over Memorial Day weekend after mistaking them for gay men , has been sentenced to 30 days in the Barnstable house of Corrections, Wicked Local reports : "Judge Donald Carpenter issued a one-year sentence, with Patten ordered to serve 30 days in jail with two ...

Two 9-year-olds were taken to Children's Hospital yesterday with injuries not believed to be life-threatening when the school bus in which they were riding collided with a van near Reservation Road and Smithfield Road in Hyde Park, according to police.

The drowning is not being treated as a homicide investigation, said Jake Wark, a spokesman for Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley.

The state Attorney General's office obtained a civil rights injunction yesterday against Winthrop resident Eric Patten, charged with assaulting two gay women May 23 in Provincetown because of their sexual orientation, according to a state document.

Nearly three months after the start of the fiscal year, area communities and the Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational School District remain locked in a dispute over whether there's an approved school budget.

The push comes as Mohegan Sun executives have been "working behind the scenes" to pave the way for a resort casino in Palmer, according to Treasurer Timothy Cahill.

This is an 8:05 p.m. update of a story posted at 9:41 this morning . By DAN RING dring@repub.com WALTHAM - Citing the need to create jobs and jump-start the economy, House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo on Friday said for the first time that he supports locating up to three resort casinos in the state.

"We started to notice a trend in the number of superwealthy folks beginning divorce proceedings," said Texas-based attorney Gary Nickelson, president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.