abandonment

Police in Easton have charged a woman from Maine with abandoning her son after the child was left in a shopping cart in a parking lot over the weekend.

NEW BEDFORD - A New Bedford woman is accused of abandoning her 11-year-old son. The investigation began after an 11-year-old boy called police from a Mattapoisett home. Police say the child walked to the house after his mother had left him alone on a dark road in the town Friday night...