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After one commission member urged Partners to abandon its South Shore expansion plans, the state Health Policy Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a report critical of the negative cost implications of Partners HealthCare System’s acquisition of South Shore Hospital and Harbor Medical Associates.

At the height of Tuesday’s snow storm, Marshfield firefighters responded to a basement fire at 96 Hancock Street.

The preacher who made headlines in 2011 because of his predictions of the apocalypse died Sunday, CNN reported. Harold Camping, 92, died after falling at his home on Nov. 30. Camping famously predicted that the Rapture would take place on May 21, 2011, when Jesus returned, and that the world would end on Oct. 21, 2011. 

The FBI announced today it has added terrorist Ahmad Abousamra, a U.S. citizen from Mansfield who left the United States in 2006, to its list of most-wanted fugitives.

With an extension of unemployment benefits not included in a Congressional budget bill speeding toward the president’s desk, approximately 58,000 people in Massachusetts are scheduled to lose their federal benefits before the end of the month.

Police in Massachusetts only recently learned that a boy whose family had been getting state social-services help has been missing since September, leading to charges against the child's mother and her boyfriend and the firing of a social worker and the worker's supervisor.Investigators say 5-year-old Jeremiah Oliver was last seen by relatives Sept. 14 but police only learned recently of his disappearance.

A Stoughton woman has concerns about a large gray animal she has seen in her backyard over the last eight months.

An ill-timed snowstorm snarled traffic during Tuesday’s evening commute, forced officials to cancel town hall meetings and after-school programs, and left the region covered with fresh snow for the second time in four days.

Easton Police on Monday released composite sketches to The Enterprise of two men wanted in connection with the Nov. 23 rape of a Stonehill College student on the school’s campus – nearly two weeks after the sketches had been sent to the Stonehill community by email on Dec. 3.