With state legislators sounding a warning that communities should prepare for a 10 percent cut in state aid, town officials are bracing for an even tougher budget year than originally expected.

"Just for a moment I was back in school and felt that old familiar pain." Locally this holiday season those memories are of community servants like former North Attleboro Fire Chief Lester Caldwell and ...

There will be a champagne and wine tasting, silent and live auctions and music and hors d'oeuvres Saturday, Jan.

The area was shocked when a 17-year-old King Philip High School senior died after attending an outdoor drinking party, leading police to seek charges against two area men and a crackdown on underage drinking.

With just a month to hammer out any changes, the mayoral government study committee began its review of the 2000 charter by laying out its plan of attack.

The town is in line to receive almost $560,000 through the settlement of a statewide class-action lawsuit against major oil companies.

Marie Caetano, right, takes a break from shopping with her family at Emerald Square mall in North Attleboro.

Dec 25, 2008 10:58 am US/Eastern ATTLEBORO A lawyer says his client had no idea that alcohol he bought would end up in the hands of a teenage girl who was found dead after wandering off from a party.

Homeowners and businesses are being advised to clear their roofs of ice and snow as the recent snowfalls and cold weather are being followed up by rain and warmer temperatures over the next few days.

Attleboro District Court Judge Gregory L. Phillips remembers assessing $200 court costs to a young concert patron arrested for being a minor in possession of alcohol.

Kevin Markie of North Attleboro avoids a defender during a touch football session at Mason Field just as the storm was getting under way today.

Police have charged a 21-year-old man they allege bought alcohol for an underage youth accused of giving a bottle of rum to 17-year-old Taylor Meyer on the night she disappeared at a drinking party.

From the age of 7, a local woman suffered from a condition that nearly killed her as an adult.

Planning board chairwoman Joan Marchitto is the sixth person to join the race for two seats on the board of selectmen.

Local police have charged a local man with supplying alcohol to Taylor Meyer the October night she disappeared following an underage party.

Police say a car went over the embankment and triggered a five-car accident at the Mayfair Plaza on Route 1 at May Street Sunday night.

An arsonist appears to be on the loose just over the North Attleboro border. Police and firefighters continue to investigate four suspicious fires in the same area within a week.

Two people in separate car accidents suffered serious, but non-life threatening injuries, early Saturday morning.

A time capsule buried in the cornerstone of Cushman Union Church in 1883 was recently unearthed by Seth Hobson, a church trustee and historian.

NORTH ATTLEBORO The two suspects were arrested in the parking lot of the Emerald Square mall, where the alleged con artists went to meet who they thought was an Auburn businessman outside of Sears.