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Quincy Police detective are seeking the public's help in indentifying a woman who allegedly robbed a Beale Street back Saturday morning.

Brockton and West Bridgewater have joined with a group of residents to challenge a state licensing board’s 2009 decision permitting a 350 mega-watt gas-fired powerplant on the city’s south side. The project has stalled because of the city’s refusal to allow the developers to connect to the municipal water system, but the appeal could create further setbacks for them.

The Metro South Chamber of Commerce, a stalwart voice for the business community in and around Brockton, will celebrate its 100th anniversary this week.

When the school van pulls up outside Sharon Lamonica’s Stoughton apartment, she greets her 3-year-old autistic son, as always.

Two Brockton residents were hospitalized after the vehicle they were driving rolled over and struck two utility poles on Harvard Street in East Bridgewater Friday night.

Two Bridgewater men were arrested Saturday morning in a Pleasant Street raid that resulted in the seizure of two loaded firearms, heroin, crack cocaine, powdered cocaine and marijuana, police said in a news release. According to authorities, Joshua Pezanetti, 29, and Kory D. Lee, 35, were arrested and charged with multiple offenses.

A 68-year-old woman was taken to the hospital Saturday afternoon after her husband drove into their Thurber Street home in Brockton.

A dive team recovered a body from a pond in Myles Standish State Forest in Plymouth Saturday. Police received a report of a capsized canoe that was found in Curlew Pond around 1 p.m. Saturday.

A dive team recovered a body from a pond in Myles Standish State Forest in Plymouth Saturday. Police received a report of a capsized canoe that was found in Curlew Pond around 1 p.m. Saturday.

Investigators made 21 arrests and seized more than 4 1/2 pounds of heroin and $140,000 in cash in overnight raids on Thursday and Friday at 22 locations across eastern Massachusetts. The sweep followed a year-long wiretap investigation of an alleged drug trafficking network. Arrests were made in Boston, Abington, Attleboro, Duxbury, Quincy and Salem. The investigation was called “Operation Limehouse” after the opium-ridden section of London described by Charles Dickens and others.