Wrentham News

Eight people are dead after four separate Independence Day crashes in eastern Massachusetts.

A 31-year-old Florida man is being charged with drunk driving in an overnight crash that killed three young Massachusetts residents in Walpole.

School Committee members in the King Philip regional district quickly accepted retiring Superintendent Richard Robbat's offer to work next school year without taking his $132,000 salary.

Governor Deval Patrick arrived at a press conference at the State House yesterday to announce he will sign transportation and ethics bills approved by the Legislature.

Gov. Deval Patrick , House Speaker Robert DeLeo, and Senate President Therese Murray said they'd be clocking in on Bunker Hill Day, an event celebrated only in Suffolk County.

Clothing retailer Eddie Bauer has struck a deal to be bought by a private equity firm for $202 million with an agreement to keep most of the retailer's stores open and employees on the payroll.

Local singers this weekend have a chance to follow in the footsteps of "American Idol" hopefuls who have gone before them, including Wrentham's Ayla Brown, who eventually made it to the Top 13 before getting voted off the popular Fox TV singing competition.

And so it begins, not with a bang but a wristband. At some point next year, the ninth American Idol will be crowned on live television in Hollywood, with the sets and the lights and the band and Simon and Paula and Randy and Kara and Ryan and the theme song and the applause and the tour and the record contract.

How's this for living high on the hog? An upstate man and his alleged drug dealer were busted in Fulton on narcotics charges after police saw an unusual trade.

Friends and acquaintances of the local man who prosecutors say was killed and dismembered in a Walpole concrete business reacted with horror to the news of his death.

Jun 11, 2009 5:41 pm US/Eastern Massachusetts lawmakers unanimously approved a bill Thursday to overhaul the state's pension system and shut down some of its most egregious abuses.

Some of the most egregious forms of pension abuse in Massachusetts are being targeted in a bill that was fast-tracked toward law Wednesday.

Two longtime friends were accused yesterday of killing a suspected drug dealer, dismembering the body, and then "cooking" the remains at a Walpole concrete business.

WRENTHAM, Mass. - More than 800 children hit the diamond in Wrentham for what organizers called "The World's Longest Baseball Game."

Prosecutors say two Massachusetts men killed a drug dealer to clear a debt, then dismembered his body and cooked the remains.

Two men have been charged with the first-degree murder of a construction worker who has been missing since March.

State's ethics scandals prompt term-limits talk BOSTON - A spate of Beacon Hill ethics cases is prompting a state representative to propose amending the Massachusetts Constitution so lawmakers can serve no longer than 12 years.

A Norfolk County Grand Jury yesterday issued a first-degree murder indictment in the March stabbing of April Mackie in her Plainville home.

The Attleboro District and Juvenile courts continue to be closed following a May 18 fire in the North Main Street courthouse.

An informal discussion about youths and alcohol at a church breakfast last winter has blossomed into a shared effort in Wrentham, Plainville, and Norfolk to return Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or DARE, to the King Philip Regional Middle School.