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As Ken Brown, 71, prepared to help his wife head over to Brockton, he received some surprising news. “We were told that since she was admitted to Good Samaritan she wouldn’t be able to return to Kindred because they were closing and they were not taking any new patients,” said Brown.

This is a Mute Swan that was delivered to our Center today with a fishing hook through his beak. The procedure to deal with this injury is fairly straightforward, and should result in a short stay at our hopsital for the swan.

Police on Tuesday arrested a suspect in a string of Dunkin' Donuts holdups in eastern Massachusetts.

Stoughton students and teachers have joined school administrators and state legislators in the push for a new high school.

Firefighters said earthquake-like effects felt in and around a North Weymouth car wash Tuesday morning were caused by the shop’s faulty heating system.

GateHouse Media Inc., owner of The Patriot Ledger and The Enterprise, has emerged from prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The company is now owned by New Media Investment Group Inc. and is under common ownership with Local Media Group, the newspaper group that operates eight daily community newspapers and 13 weeklies.

Just over a year after raising them, the MBTA is now seeking to drop fares for the RIDE paratransit service from $4 to $3, an agency financial officer told a state transportation department committee Tuesday.

A winter storm blamed for at least 11 fatal accidents in the West, Texas and Arkansas threatens to dampen the Thanksgiving holiday for millions of Americans traveling this week.

A winter-like storm that has already hit the West hard now is expected to hit the Northeast and cause major travel issues for the Thanksgiving holiday. Storms are expected to bring ice and snow to the areas around Philadelphia and Boston. New York City is expected to only have rain, however. 

Regarding “JOSEPH GIGLIO: Multinationals rule, the offshoring of America” (Nov. 16), one would expect more from a college professor.