March 29, 2013 Recipients of medical marijuana in Massachusetts would be allowed up to 10 ounces for 60 days under proposed rules issued by state health officials.
Massachusetts voters passed a ballot question in November allowing for the use of medicinal marijuana for patients with certain medical conditions, including cancer, Parkinson's disease and AIDS
March 29, 2013
March 28, 2013
March 28, 2013 New Bedford and Mass. State Police have taken a suspect into custody following a four hour standoff at Southcoast Condominiums at 2120 Phillips Road.
Police responded to the scene around 5pm, and according to unofficial reports, a gunman opened fire on Police from a nearby building
March 28, 2013 The Ocean Explorium in Downtown New Bedford is losing the support of UMass Dartmouth.
Explorium Director Abbey Spargo says she received a call this week from Chancellor Dvina Grossman, saying the University was withdrawing financial support from the Explorium, because it needed to reduce spending in order to balance the University budget
March 28, 2013 The Massachusetts welfare system has launched what it calls a ``100 day action plan'' to weed out waste and fraud.
Stacey Monahan, interim commissioner of the Department of Transitional Assistance, announced Thursday that the program is designed to strengthen welfare programs and ensure that only those eligible for benefits receive them
March 28, 2013 A Massachusetts man who disappeared while awaiting sentencing for three rapes 35 years ago has been arrested in Maine, where police say he'd been living since the 1980s.
A Maine State Police spokesman said Gary Allen Irving was living in Gorham, Maine, with his wife and children when he was arrested Wednesday night
March 27, 2013
March 27, 2013 The Massachusetts auditor says the state's office of Early Education and Care has failed to take sufficient steps to assure sex offenders aren't working at licensed day care centers.
In a scathing report Wednesday, auditors found 119 cases in which the address of a registered sex offender matched that of a licensed child care facility
March 26, 2013 