Blackstone

The Woonsocket Fire Department has announced honors for the funeral of Deputy Fire chief Roger Perreault Jr. following his active-duty death on Christmas Eve.

The Blackstone Police Department is charging a juvenile for allegedly shooting and killing a cat with an arrow.

Acting Chief Gregory Gilmore says Blackstone Police received a call Thursday night regarding a pet cat that had been shot with an arrow on Old Mendon Street.

A Massachusetts woman has been indicted on two murder charges after the skeletal remains of three babies were found in her squalid home in September. District Attorney Joseph Early announced the charges Tuesday against Erika Murray. Murray has been held on $1 million bail after pleading not guilty to earlier charges including fetal death concealment...

The lawyer for a Massachusetts woman arrested after the bodies of three infants were found in a squalid, vermin-infested home says his client is in a prison treatment unit for women who could pose a danger to themselves. Erika Murray has pleaded not guilty to several charges including fetal death concealment and permitting substantial injury to a child...

The state's child protection agency says it investigated a previous complaint of possible child neglect at the squalid Blackstone home where authorities found three babies' bodies this week. The Department of Children and Families said Friday it didn't find anything to support the 2007 report and didn't open a case...

UPDATE:  Unidentified woman arrested in connection with the bodies of three infants found Thursday in a house in Blackstone, Mass.  Authorities say the woman will appear in court on Friday. Original Post:  Massachusetts prosecutor says the bodies of three infants have been found in a filthy house Iin Blackstone where four other children were taken away by authorities last month...