911 System Crashes in Worcester
Imagine you’re having chest pains. Or think you hear an intruder downstairs late at night. Maybe you see smoke wafting from a neighbor’s house. What if you called 911 but couldn’t get through? It’s...
View ArticleState Hospitals Face 2nd Highest Rate Of Federal Penalties Nationwide
Connecticut fared second-worst in the country in the percentage of hospitals hit with federal penalties for selected quality-of-care measures and in the overall rate of loss of Medicare reimbursements...
View ArticleTwo chiefs refuse to explain chase policies
Police chiefs in Uxbridge and Northbridge have declined to provide the Telegram & Gazette with copies of their policies governing when to chase suspects fleeing in vehicles, saying disclosure of...
View ArticleAs tax hikes loom, gov’s budget grows
Gov. Deval Patrick, who’s been touring the state asking residents to tighten their belts to fund billions in new taxes, has been lavishing taxpayers’ money on rental cars, meals and more staff in a...
View ArticleProbe: Bonilla Abused Power
Auxiliary Police Chief Jay Jackson was ebullient after promoting three auxiliary police officers during a ceremony in Mayor William Lantigua’s City Hall office two years ago. Click Here to Read the...
View ArticleWatchdog report: Taser use, guidelines vary in suburbs
At 3 a.m. the night after Thanksgiving 2008, Irondequoit police came across a 68-year-old woman, “highly agitated (and) paranoid,” who pulled a 12-inch carving knife as an officer approached and told...
View ArticleRaises For Judges, Other Officials Would Cost $8 Million By 2017
A controversial proposal to raise the salaries of more than 160 state Superior Court judges by about $24,000 in the next four years has become a forgotten topic in the news since the Dec. 14 massacre...
View ArticleStriving for innovation, spending millions, leaders ignored major problems
In the summer of 2010, residents in the Shippan neighborhood began complaining of strong, unpleasant smells wafting through their open windows and into their cars. They live near the city’s marinas and...
View ArticleMore Granite Staters buying guns, looking to carry concealed guns, since...
The number of Greater Nashua residents applying for concealed carry permits has nearly doubled in December and January compared with a year ago, local police said. Click Here to Read the Full Story
View ArticleNew England Compounding Center expected record profits before raid
Right before agents raided the New England Compounding Center , federal bankruptcy documents show the Framingham company had record profits in sight. Click Here to View the Story
View ArticleDrug money pads DA, police budgets
Check out Laura Krantz’s story about the millions of dollars MA prosecutors seize from alleged drug criminals each year. Laura attended NECIR’s Watchdog Reporting Workshop in Concord, NH last October....
View ArticleBethel lawmaker’s bill aims to wipe away ethical ‘shame’
Urging his fellow lawmakers to set “an ethical course for all legislators,” Bethel Rep. Jarrod Crockett Wednesday introduced a bill to require a one-year waiting period between leaving the legislature...
View ArticleStriving for innovation, spending millions, Stamford leaders ignored major...
This is the first of two parts examining the Stamford sewage treatment plant’s long history of problems, the financial implications for local residents and environmental consequences for the entire...
View ArticleStamford’s failed attempt at energy innovation cost taxpayers tens of millions
This is the second of two parts examining the Stamford sewage treatment plant’s long history of problems and their causes, the financial implications for local residents and environmental consequences...
View ArticleLGC actions put workers’ comp program at risk
The New Hampshire Local Government Center’s Workers’ Compensation Trust program has lost more than $17 million since its inception in 2000 and will collapse if the state Supreme Court does not overturn...
View ArticleIs it time to unplug Wyman Station?
People who live and work around Casco Bay noticed an unusual sight during the week of Jan. 21: Smoke was rising from the 421-foot stack of Maine’s largest power plant, Wyman Station in Yarmouth. It’s a...
View ArticleSex offenders’ $1.2M tab
The state’s most dangerous sex predators ran up a $1.2 million taxpayer-funded legal tab last year by quietly using an obscure provision in state law that lets them hire public defenders to go behind...
View ArticleRisky business tax breaks cost state $100 million per year
While the state is considering cutting aid to schools and communities, it is also spending more than $100 million a year on tax breaks for businesses that an audit has criticized as risky investments....
View ArticleNumber of Kids Behind Bars Reaches 35-Year Low
There were fewer kids behind bars in 2010 than there have been in 35 years, demonstrating what one foundation called a “sea change” in American attitudes toward juvenile justice, according to a trio of...
View ArticleReport Credits Political Courage, Advocacy for Improving Connecticut’s...
On the third floor of a Romanesque church in Bridgeport there is a shabby office with unreliable electrical wiring and a collection of banged up folding chairs. It’s where Family ReEntry, a social...
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