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BOSTON – Way back in the 1950s, Boston’s WBZ-TV featured a program on channel 4 – the “Big Brother Bob Emery Show.” The show was geared to youngsters, who “Big Brother” called “Small Fry.” By the time the show hit TV, Emery was an elderly looking gentleman – he was born in 1898.

A 71-year-old man who was convicted of killing his girlfriend’s toddler in Boston in 1974 has been granted parole after serving 50 years in prison. Edward Starling was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of 1-year-old Laquita Prout on Dec. 16, 1976. A Suffolk Superior Court judge sentenced him to life in prison with the possibility of...

Burlington, MA — Five foreign nationals wanted on homicide charges

For more than two years, the truth of what happened when a Massachusetts State Police sergeant crashed his unmarked cruiser head-on into a wheelchair transport van on a quiet street in Woburn on a December evening in 2023 was obscured. When police went to the scene — summoned there by...

Before a new week begins, we're looking back at the week that was, and the stories that led the news with Enterprise readers. Top stories this past week included: There is a new restaurant coming to Brockton's Main Street. Happii Bellii has officially hung its branding on the storefront of 121 Main St. A Brockton man who secretly photographed women and children at an...

A small crowd gathered outside the Iannella Chamber before the City Council’s regular meeting on Wednesday, for Councilor Julia Mejia’s No Taxation Without Representation rally. Although the councilor urged her colleagues to challenge the FY27 budget, she said she has not, and will not, participate in the “smoke and mirrors” amendment process.

QUOTABLE QUOTES – Gov. Maura Healey joined four former Bay State governors at Faneuil Hall to mark the 20th anniversary of Massachusetts’ landmark 2006 health care reform law. Here’s what they said:. “Twenty years ago, Massachusetts showed the country what is possible when people come together and...

Aerial mosquito control spraying planned across Norfolk County wetlands in April. The Norfolk County Mosquito Control District will be conducting helicopter applications of the biorational larvicide Bti (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) to control mosquito larvae. These applications will be conducted over a likely 2 to 4-day window, lasting only 2 days,...

WILMINGTON, MA — According to the Wilmington Police Log, Wilmington Police issued the following arrests and summonses between April 3, 2026 and April 9, 2026. K. Cosgrove (30, Reading) was served a summons for Uninsured Motor Vehicle and Operating A Motor Vehicle With A Suspended Or Revoked Registration. (1:04am)

Zane White, 18, of Jericho didn’t know a spur-of-the-moment wager would springboard him into Monday’s race — and reap $15,000 for charity. Read the story on VTDigger here: A teen bet he could run on a treadmill for 26 miles. Now he’s the youngest Vermonter in the Boston Marathon. .