BOSTON (AP) -- Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a law requiring state licenses for saltwater fishing in Massachusetts.
The Department of Fish and Game will propose an individual permit fee of $10 to take effect in January. The revenue will be deposited in the state's Marine Recreational Fisheries Development Fund.
The federal [...]
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BOSTON, MASS. -- A federal magistrate judge recommended Monday that disgraced lawyer John M. Cicilline's bid to win early prison release be dismissed.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert B. Collings issued a report and recommendations calling for the dismissal of Cicilline's request that he [...]
BOSTON, Mass. -- A federal appeals court Thursday upheld a lower court decision clearing a Rhode Island State Police trooper of wrongdoing in connection to a 2003 raid on Narragansett tribal land.
Adam Jennings, an employee of the tribe's smoke shop in Charlestown, charged that Trooper Kenneth Jones had used [...]
BOSTON, Mass. -- A federal appeals court Thursday upheld a lower court decision clearing a Rhode Island State Police trooper of wrongdoing in connection to a 2003 raid on Narragansett tribal land.
Adam Jennings, an employee of the tribe's smoke shop in Charlestown, charged that Trooper Kenneth Jones had used [...]
There was an article in Tuesday’s Boston Herald about a report commissioned by Deval Patrick regarding the immigrant community living in Massachusetts.
The 56 page report, called Massachusetts New Americans Agenda, details 131 recommendations to better integrate immigrants (both authorized and unauthorized) and refugees into the Bay [...]
Recently reunited trio Scarce have been playing here and there for the last year-and-a-half or so, and tomorrow night they’re going to be at Jerky’s. As part of the wave of Boston-area alternative bands to get major record deals in the mid-nineties, things looked really promising for Scarce until [...]
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The man who died in a burning pickup at the park-and-ride on Boston Neck Road early Wednesday morning has been identified as Terence W. Ashworth, 37, a member of the Narragansett School Committee.
Meredith Ashworth, his wife of 11 years, talked about his love and kindness [...]
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The body of a man was pulled from a burning Ford truck at the park-and-ride on Boston Neck Road near Route 138 early Wednesday morning.
Channel 12 says that the center of gravity of the New England mob is about to shift back to Boston. The wonderfully sensationalistic video can be viewed here.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - We’ve learned a major shift in power is happening right now inside the Patriarca [...]
In 1660, Mary Dyer was hanged on Boston Common. Her crime? Being a Quaker. Her execution was part of a tragic and shameful chapter in our nation's history. So why is there a statue of her in front of the Massachusetts State Capitol east wing? Proponents of removing "Providence Plantations" [...]
The Upper Crust have given Providence a special mention in anticipation of their show tonight.
Lying midway between Boston and New York, it was only a matter of time before the Upper Crust would stumble upon this small but congenial city, which—while [...]
This just in from the Boston Globe:
After months of speculating, Curt Spalding, the longtime executive director of Save the Bay in Rhode Island, has just been named New England’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief.
Spalding was considered a strong candidate, but pundits were placing bets on Charlie Lord, who helped [...]
BOSTON, MASS. -- A magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts on Thursday agreed to hear disgraced lawyer John M. Cicilline's arguments for why he should win early release from prison Nov. 19.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert B. Collings granted Cicilline's motion for a speedy hearing before the court. [...]
BOSTON (AP) - Lawsuits against two meat companies claim a Massachusetts girl and a Rhode Island boy were sickened by ground beef contaminated by E. coli bacteria.
The lawsuits filed Tuesday in Plymouth Superior Court say the children were hospitalized but are now recovering.
A lawsuit against Brockton-based South Shore Meats says [...]
Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, plans to work with Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island on beefing up the Pawtucket hospital's cardiac and emergency services.
The new "clinical affiliation," announced Tuesday, brings the imprimatur of a famous Harvard-affiliated institution to a small Pawtucket hospital (which is affiliated with Brown University's medical [...]
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BOSTON (AP) -- "Survivor" winner Richard Hatch maintains he has done nothing wrong and says he has been the victim of a "witch hunt" by federal prosecutors.
Hatch said on NBC's "Today" show Tuesday he was taken [...]
Broadcast are playing at the Paradise in Boston tonight. Promoting their new mini-album, the wonderfully chic British group will be playing with Atlas Sound and the Selmanaires.
I’ve been hooked on the group (now duo) since 2000, when I heard the excellent Come On Let’s Go for the first time; [...]
BOSTON (AP) -- A special commission says the legal age at which students can drop out of school in Massachusetts should be raised to 18.
Current state law allows children to drop out of school at age 16, and in certain cases as young as 14.
BOSTON (AP) -- Gov. Deval Patrick is asking state unions to accept furlough days and other concessions to avoid layoffs of up to 2,000 state workers before the end of the year.
The governor is weighing a series of cuts after tax revenues for the first few months of the fiscal [...]
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A former Jamestown councilman on trial for murdering his wife during a scuba-diving vacation in the British Virgin Islands will take the witness stand, according to his lawyer.
David Swain, the former owner of a Jamestown dive shop, will testify Tuesday in Tortola, Boston [...]
An Associated Press story that appeard in the Boston Globe, among other papers, notes that prospective Republican gubernatorial candidate Riordon "Rory" Smith's candidacy is drawing comparisons to Governor Carcieri's initial campaign. Both are wealthy businessmen from East Greenwich who came out of nowhere to seek the state's top job.
The [...]
The Boston Globe takes a look at the MBTA and it’s myriad array of service modes from bus to trolley to commuter rail to boat and more, and concludes that in part, this complexity contributes to high costs. As part of this report, there is a [...]
