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Lawmakers and activists hoping to repeal a new law indexing the gas tax to inflation claimed Thursday that they've filed more than 100,000 signatures for certification by local officials, more than enough at first blush to qualify for the 2014 ballot.

The Christmas stockings of 41 co-workers at a Holbrook company will be stuffed after the group won $1 million in the state Lottery this week.

A Norfolk County grand jury has indicted the man accused of torturing Puppy Doe.

The defense attorney for a Marshfield man acquitted of a drunken boating charge in connection with a 2011 fatal boat accident off Brant Rock says witness testimony that his client appeared hypothermic and in shock helped win the case.

A minivan full of people visiting friends at their Forest Avenue home was shot at several times Wednesday night said Brockton police.

Famed psychic Sylvia Browne died at age 77. The cause of her death isn't known. Browne rose to fame by appearing on TV shows such as "Unsolved Mysteries" and "The Montel Williams Show," and she also wrote many books. 

For years, the schoolgirl in the blue jacket who was perched atop a stone pedestal in Dealey Plaza in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 — and documented in grainy photographs and film clips — tantalized historians researching the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Now an associate professor of English at the University of Scranton, Toni Glover still struggles with the raw horror of what she witnessed.

A lifelong Marshfield resident, Richard Sullivan, 60, died last year, but his legacy will endure in Marshfield’s Green Harbor.

Like millions of other Americans, Norman Katz of Sharon remembers exactly where he was that day in 1963 when he heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. Unlike all but a few, Katz learned of the assassination sooner – from the Secret Service – and he then played a top-secret part in the nightmarish hours that followed.