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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.

On Tuesday, September 15, 2009, at approximately 10:25am, Boston Police Officers assigned out of Area D-4 , were patrolling in the area of Petera s Park when they their attention was drawn to two grown men in the park.

Proponents engaged in a last-minute push for a bill to allow the governor to make an interim appointment to fill the U.S. Senate seat of the late Edward M. Kennedy are running into stiff opposition among Democrats and Republicans from Central Massachusetts, according to a Telegram & Gazette poll of lawmakers.

Michael D. Kelly, 50, of 103 Hale St., Beverly, was arrested at 7:50 p.m. at the intersection of Federal and Ashland streets and charged with cocaine possession, driving with a revoked license, and failure to use care at an intersection.

A Celebration of the Naming of Boston & Dorchester & Watertown The Puritans, led by John Winthrop, came to the New World as English in the 17th century and adapted their heritage to establish local governance in the towns of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Edward M. Kennedy's seat today, moving up a public hearing on the legislation to Sept.