Danielle LaTaille of Longmeadow has been named Western Massachusetts regional social services manager for The Salvation Army ...

Christopher Middlemiss, of Lowell, was four months shy of his 21st birthday when he gunned down 23-year-old Alberto Cintron inside the victim’s Shaw Street apartment in 2006.

Nearly two decades after a deadly shooting during an attempted robbery in Lowell, the Parole Board has voted to release the ...

Ashland High School graduates who have completed at least two years of college can apply for the Harold B. Walker Scholarship ...

A soon-to-be-formed working group of town officials and department leaders will lead the local fight on opioid use and education through various programs and initiatives to support ...

Taconic High School’s popularity has created a classic supply-and-demand problem: more students want to enroll than there are ...

Darkens Bonnett, who was 18 when he fatally shot a man outside a Lynn nightclub in 2009, has been granted parole by the Massachusetts Parole Board in a unanimous vote. The board ordered that he be ...

Activists and locals have been protesting upcoming changes to a Holyoke, Massachusetts sober home program – some of which are causing confusion among the program’s current residents.The non-profit ...

With two years of legalized sports betting in the books, public health advocates, researchers and counselors suggest changes.

Across Connecticut, school districts are working to keep classrooms staffed when teachers are absent, and the need for qualified substitute teachers continues to grow. If you’ve ever considered ...

Crime survivors rallied March 11 at the Mississippi State Capitol, calling for investments in crime prevention, violence intervention and victim assistance.

The evidence indicates that achievement gaps persist in Boston’s schools, based on results on the MCAS, which is still being administered. Closing those gaps requires steady, non-flashy work on ...