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DCYF to remove remaining kids from St. Mary's Home for Children
An urgent meeting about removing kids from St. Mary's Home for children will be held Thursday. This comes months after a harsh report about the conditions at the state-run facility. A spokesperson for Rhode Island DCYF says a transition plan for any or all of the 10 children is ongoing...
Biden declares September flooding in Mass. a ‘major disaster,’ reversing FEMA denial
Portions of central Massachusetts experienced catastrophic flooding last September. President Joe Biden on Wednesday approved a disaster declaration for areas of Massachusetts hit hard by flash floods last September. The decision, announced by the White House, reverses the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s initial denial in February. Portions of central...
Massachusetts family faces teen's killer at parole hearing for first time since his 1994 conviction
GROVELAND, Mass. — Thirty years after the brutal beating death of a Massachusetts teenager, her killer argued Thursday that he should be allowed out of prison during an emotional hearing. Richard Baldwin was convicted in 1994 of murdering Beth Brodie, a 15-year-old cheerleader from Groveland. Baldwin was 16 when...
How Mass. cities and towns are being reimbursed for hosting emergency shelters
The state has reimbursed municipalities and school districts nearly $28 million for impacts associated with hosting emergency assistance shelters, according to the latest data provided by the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities. In January, a report from the Healey administration showed homeless families — both newly arrived migrants...
Body of missing Mass. hiker found under boulder in NH river
The body of a Massachusetts hiker who'd been missing for nearly a month was found beneath a boulder in New Hampshire's White Mountains Tuesday, officials said. William Neal Donovan, a 65-year-old avid hiker from Cambridge, was reported missing April 16. His car was located about two weeks later at the Crawford Path parking lot in Carroll.
USPS workers in Rhode Island charged in mail theft ring; authorities estimate losses to be ‘massive’
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Federal investigators have broken up a “well-organized and wide-ranging conspiracy” to steal valuables from the mail in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, they announced Wednesday. The alleged conspiracy involved a supervisor and six other workers at the U.S. Postal Service processing and distribution center...
Campbell: Neglected fence could use some attention
The State Police Headquarters in Scituate is beautifully maintained, the grounds are well-kept … but I turn your attention to the original longtime headquarters that is still used, the Richard Rhodes house built in 1794 and modernized in the early 1960s … (later called the Coggeshall Mansion). The...
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