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A Lakeville woman was charged with driving under the influence after she allegedly struck a guardrail and then fled from police at speeds faster than 100 mph Tuesday night...Rose Schwartz, 44, was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol, speeding, failure to stop for police and negligent operation of a motor vehicle...Schwartz is the now former principal of Chamberlain Elementary in Taunton. A Raynham officer saw a gray Honda SUV driving on Route 138 with its front bumper hanging down and dragging on the pavement, police said. When the officer tried to stop the vehicle, it accelerated to speeds...

A pipe was the only sign of drug use found near Chris Bennett's body in November. But it looked like the 32-year-old Taunton, Mass., native had stopped breathing and died of an opioid overdose. Bennett's mother, Liisa, couldn't understand what happened. Then she saw the toxicology report. "I'm convinced he was smoking cocaine that was laced," she says. "That's what he had in his system, [it] was cocaine and fentanyl." Liisa Bennett was shocked. Chris had developed an addiction to pain pills and then heroin in his late teens but had not used opioids for at least 10 years, as...

Family members of a man who authorities say went on a stabbing rampage that killed two people in Taunton on Tuesday have criticized the hospital that discharged him hours before he became violent. Arthur J. DaRosa, 28, was shot and killed by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy after he stabbed two women at a home in Taunton, then went to the Silver City Galleria and stabbed two others, investigators say.

Two people are dead after a stabbing and shooting at a mall and a home in Taunton, Massachusetts, and their attacker was shot and killed by an off-duty officer, state police said. Massachusetts State police and Taunton police responded to a report of a shooting and stabbing at the Silver City Galleria Mall on Galleria Drive and a related crime scene at a home on Myrick Street at about 7 p.m.

Rag and bone cup dates to 300BC Last Updated: 9:40PM BST 27/05/2008 The grandson of a rag and bone man who acquired a small metal cup is in line for a windfall after discovering it is a pure gold vessel dating back to the third or fourth century BC. A rag and bone man gave his grandson the pure gold vessel, which is from the third or fourth century BC The piece could be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. The 5½ in cup, believed to be from the Achaemenid empire, has two female faces looking in opposite directions, their...

TAUNTON, Mass. (WHDH) - Two teens from Taunton are facing 10-day suspensions over some pictures they took before Homecoming. The pictures in question show the two dressed in their Homecoming outfits holding Airsoft guns. “It's not like it happened at school, we had the guns [at home] and that's where the pictures were taken and they said it didn't matter,” Jaime Pereira said. "I guess the school took that as a threat but we didn't mean it in a threatening way." School officials say the pictures, which were captioned “Homecoming 2014,” created a scare. “What it's about is a coupled...

TAUNTON — A Granite Street woman was charged with drug trafficking Thursday afternoon after police said they recovered nearly 19 grams of heroin stuffed into her bra. Police said 37-year-old Kelly Jean Gagnon also had 13 Massachusetts EBT food stamp cards and 13 Suboxone pills, which are prescribed to counter heroin addition, stashed away in her first-floor apartment at 11 Granite St. Taunton detectives, and at least one Drug Enforcement Administration agent, confiscated the drugs and other items during the execution of a search warrant. Electronic Benefits Transfer cards are commonly used by drug users and dealers in lieu of...

Mayor: School boss should apologize to boy who drew cross By Laura Crimaldi and Laurel J. Sweet | Tuesday, December 15, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Coverage Photo by Taunton Gazette Taunton Mayor Charles Crowley called School Superintendent Julie Hackett from his vacation today and asked her to apologize both privately and publicly to the family of an 8-year-old special needs student sent home from school and ordered to undergo psychological testing after drawing a stick-figure picture of Jesus Christ nailed to the cross. “Mayor Crowley’s sentiments were that he would hope Dr. Hackett would meet with the family today,...

A Taunton father is outraged after his 8-year-old son was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after drawing a stick-figure picture of Jesus Christ on the cross. The father said he got a call earlier this month from Maxham Elementary School informing him that his son, a second-grade student, had created a violent drawing. The image in question depicted a crucified Jesus with Xs covering his eyes to signify that he had died on the cross. The boy wrote his name above the cross. “As far as I’m concerned, they’re violating his religion,” the incredulous...

TAUNTON, Mass. - A dam on the rain-swollen Mill River deteriorated overnight and Taunton prepared for the worst Tuesday, evacuating residents, canceling classes and closing off downtown amid fears of a wall of water up to 6 feet deep. Mayor Robert Nunes, at a hastily called news conference, said the situation at the wooden Whittenton Pond Dam upstream from the city took a turn for the worse about 2 a.m., resulting in an increase of water flow. "The city of Taunton still is in a state of emergency," Nunes said. "If the dam goes, it will create massive flooding along...