The disgraced former Massachusetts special ed director who was accused of misusing more than $37 million in taxpayer dollars has lost his pension appeal.
Billerica
Final salute for Billerica’s Sgt. Taylor
Billerica and Lawrence bid farewell to police Sgt. Ian Taylor Friday. His funeral was in St. Patrick’s Church in Lawrence and he was buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Methuen. The 49-year-old Billerica officer, who once patrolled Lawrence, suffered fatal injuries while working on a road construction site on Boston Road last week.
Massachusetts Level 2 sex offender convicted of raping girls sentenced for child pornography
A Level 2 sex offender who was convicted of raping 7 and 8-year-old girls has been sentenced to prison after the feds busted him for child pornography.
Local communities awarded funding for water infrastructure, PFAS treatment
Communities around the region will receive a portion of the $1.4 billion in loans and grants recently finalized by the state to fund municipal water and wastewater projects, including efforts to address PFAS contamination as the federal government sets the first-ever limits for “forever chemicals” in drinking water.
