Gov. Deval Patrick has announced that the federal stimulus package added close to 5,000 jobs in Massachusetts during the last three months of 2009.

A Framingham man accused of running a $29 million Ponzi scheme is facing a detention and probable-cause hearing.

Authorities say Walmart stores in Danvers and Salem have been hit by shoplifters running out with boxes of baby formula.

A bill to allow the city of Lawrence to borrow up to $35 million to balance its books and avoid bankruptcy is facing opposition.

While coyote attacks on humans are rare, and attacks by rabid ones even rarer, researchers from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health have drawn what they believe is a statistical connection between aggressive behavior in the animals and the deadly disease.

A Haverhill man has been sentenced to up to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to repeatedly molesting a 12-year-old boy.

A Haverhill man has been sentenced to up to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to repeatedly molesting a 12-year-old boy.

The trustee overseeing the estate of the bankrupt founder of Montana’s exclusive Yellowstone Club is due in federal court Friday, seeking permission to sell a piece of Edra Blixseth’s property for $8.5 million. That’s less than one-sixth the going price two years ago.

The trustee overseeing the estate of the bankrupt founder of Montana’s exclusive Yellowstone Club is due in federal court Friday, seeking permission to sell a piece of Edra Blixseth’s property for $8.5 million. That’s less than one-sixth the going price two years ago.

An 82-year-old Somerville woman struck by a fire hose than had come loose from a Cambridge fire engine that was responding to call has died.