The issue of child sexual abuse continues to make headlines in the US. This week, the spotlight is on Massachusetts, where an ex-Newton elementary teacher has been charged with allegedly sexually assaulting a child that he babysat and a Woburn Little League coach is accused of committing sex acts via…
A set of consumer advocate groups has recommended the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to recall the Bumbo Baby Sitter Seat, a device intended to help babies sit up earlier than they could on their own. At first glance, the product-millions of which have been sold in the United States…
In a story making national headlines, the two sons of a missing Utah woman have died in a blast engineered by their father, Josh Powell, who died along with them in Washington State. Powell had lost custody of his two sons, Braden, 5, and Charles, 7, and had just been…
According to media reports, an elderly woman struck a Concord family on Commonwealth Avenue in Concord around 9 a.m. on Saturday, sending the family to the hospital and causing serious injuries to the 20-month-old child who was being pushed in a stroller at the time. The mother, 39-year-old Laura Labriola,…
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has signed a bill that widens the medical authority to nurse-midwives. Under the new law, midwives will be allowed to order and interpret tests and therapeutics, as well as write prescriptions. It also gets rid of the requirement that a nurse-midwife has to practice with a…
50 years after her birth, Arline MacCormack believes that the DES drug that her mother took while she was pregnant has caused her to now develop breast cancer. MacCormack, a Newton resident, is one of more than 50 women in the US have filed products liability lawsuits against the drug…
According to news reports, forty-seven-year-old Barbara Wood of Middleborough died today aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship while it was off the Florida coast. She apparently slipped on stairs and fell down a staircase, and hit her head. Although rushed to the infirmary, Wood was pronounced dead approximately an hour…
According to news reports, police have arrested a suspect in the 2010 hit-and-run crash that killed 81-year-old Christos Agganis. The suspect, 24-year-old Steffany Barbanti of Saugus, is suspected of striking the 81-year-old man then fleeing the scene and is being charged with leaving the scene of a fatal crash. She…
A former Massachusetts dentist was sentenced to one year in jail by Fall River Superior Court, after pleading guilty earlier in January to a host of charges. Fifty-three year old Michael Clair pleaded guilty to assault and battery, illegally prescribing medications, defrauding Medicaid, and illegally prescribing medications. According to prosecutors,…
Nearly two years after a Quincy fire at a basement apartment claimed the lives of Oudah Moshah Frawi, 9, and his sons Ali Oudah Frawi, 1, and Hassan Frawi, 2 months, landlords Jason Huang and Andy Huang have been convicted of manslaughter over their deaths. The Norfolk Superior Court jury…