SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- An unidentified motorist wearing a cowboy hat and boots helped Massachusetts State Police untangle a traffic tie-up Tuesday on Route 91 South, near Exit 8, by lassoing two heifers that were loose on a downtown section of interstate.
A latch on a trailer worked loose, and the [...]
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" [...]
On the local front:
Journal file photo Police, fire and highway trucks are parked on Route 95, Attleboro, after a tractor-trailer rolled over on November 6, 2008.
A year ago today:
Massachusetts State Police are investigating a car-tractor-trailer crash in Attleboro that forced the closure of a stretch [...]
NEW BEDFORD Mass. -- A suspect in a drug raid on Thursday fired at and struck a Massachusetts state trooper, whose body armor protected him from harm. That suspect was slain in turn, the state police said in a news release.
Neither the trooper nor the dead man was identified immediately. [...]
