attleboro

The Bishop Feehan hockey team played rival North Attleboro on Saturday night, and No. 10 A.J. Quetta, who was injured in a game last month, was on everyone’s mind.

A.J. Quetta, a senior at Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro, Massachusetts, will be transported to Shepherd Rehabilitation Facility in Atlanta.

A car crashed through a Hobby Lobby store in Attleboro, and police believe it was intentional.

Police say a man apparently deliberately crashed his car into the front of a Massachusetts hobby store, knocked over displays, and then drove from the scene. Attleboro police Chief Kyle Heagney told The Sun Chronicle that a worker spreading salt in the Hobby Lobby store’s parking lot at about 5 a.m. Tuesday saw the car spinning around in the...

A.J. Quetta, a senior at Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro, is at Massachusetts General Hospital after getting seriously injured during a hockey game.

Funeral arrangements are set to take place this week for a Massachusetts police officer who died last week after a courageous battle with COVID-19. Det. Sgt. Stephen Desfosses served the Norton Police Department for more than 30 years before he died on Wednesday, Jan. 13. He had been hospitalized at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston with coronavirus since…

A police officer from Norton, Massachusetts, has died after being hospitalized with coronavirus last month. Det. Sgt. Stephen Desfosses’ death was announced by the Norton Police Department Wednesday afternoon. “It is with great sadness that Chief Brian Clark and the members of the Norton Police Department announce the passing of Detective Sergeant Stephen Desfosses after a courageous battle with Covid…

A veteran Norton police officer died after a battle with coronvairus.

A Massachusetts police officer is fighting for his life after being hospitalized last month with COVID-19. Tuesday night, Jessica Desfosses of Attleboro hugged her two girls, 11-year-old Addison and 8-year-old Ella, during the hardest time of their lives. Det. Sgt. Stephen Desfosses, a father of four and a veteran officer with the Norton Police Department, has been hospitalized at Beth…

Det. Sgt. Stephen DesFosses of Attleboro is fighting for his life after being hospitalized with coronavirus.

Police in Attleboro, Massachusetts, say a man who went missing from a nursing home has been found. Richard Westcoat was reported missing from an unnamed facility in uptown Attleboro, police said in a tweet Tuesday afternoon. Westcoat had last been seen by workers Monday afternoon, police said, noted that he was reported missing Tuesday morning. Police tweeted later Thursday afternoon…

The driver of a tractor trailer was taken to the hospital with serious injuries after crashing on Interstate 95 northbound, according to officials. MassDOT spokeswoman Jacquelyn Goddard said a “serious injury crash” had taken place around midnight Friday in the area before the Mansfield Rest Area. No other cars were involved. Lanes have since opened on the highway. No further…

Seven more city employees have tested positive for COVID-19 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, including four firefighters, the city’s mayor announced. Mayor Paul Heroux said that outside the four firefighters, the three additional cases occurred in employees outside City Hall. Heroux also said he as approved an ‘injured on duty,’ designation to allow the four firefighters to receive benefits because all...

A third firefighter with the Attleboro Fire Department is in the hospital after testing positive for COVID-19, according to the city’s firefighters union. According to Attleboro Firefighters Local 848, the firefighter was admitted to Sturdy Memorial Hospital with severe symptoms of the illness. A number of firefighters who may have been exposed are quarantining. The union said two other firefighters…

Attleboro City Hall is being closed to the public for nearly two weeks after Thanksgiving in an effort to stem further spread of the coronavirus, the mayor says. The closure from Nov. 26 until Dec. 7 is needed to fend off virus cases that employees and members of the public could pick up during Thanksgiving celebrations, Mayor Paul Heroux said…

Police in Massachusetts are looking for a missing Attleboro teen, and they are asking the public for help in their search. Jozef McAllister, 15, was last seen on Oct. 16 at 10 a.m. in the area of South Avenue and Snell Street in Attleboro, police said. McAllister is described as 5’6″, approximately 140 pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes….

Jozef McAllister, 15, was last seen on Oct. 16 at 10 a.m. in the area of South Avenue and Snell Street in Attleboro, police said.

Another firefighter in Attleboro, Massachusetts, has tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the department’s total to 12 total cases of the virus, the union announced Saturday. To date, 10 firefighters and two dispatchers have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Attleboro Firefighters Local 848. The firefighters and dispatchers continue to quarantine and are being monitored according to public health guidelines,…

Nine firefighters and two dispatchers have tested positive for coronavirus in Attleboro, Massachusetts, according to the mayor, after the city was deemed high-risk for transmission by the state. One of the firefighters has become “very ill,” and is now in serious condition at Rhode Island Hospital. Attleboro is among 23 communities considered high-risk for transmitting COVID-19 in the state’s latest data...

Nine firefighters and two dispatchers have tested positive for coronavirus in Attleboro, Massachusetts, according to the mayor, as the city is deemed high-risk for transmission by the state. One firefighter “became very ill,” and is now in serious condition at Rhode Island Hospital.