Boston Globe - Fri Jul 03

Traffic fatalities by county in Massachusetts in 2008. By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff The number of traffic deaths in Massachusetts dropped 16 percent, from 434 in 2007 to 363 in 2008, following a national trend, federal highway safety officials said this week.

Nashoba Publishing Onine - Fri Jul 03

By an overwhelming vote, the Ayer Board of Selectmen took an unusual step last week of ignoring a town committee's unanimous request to fill a vacancy among its membership with an applicant of their choosing.

Legal Intelligencer - Fri Jul 03

After losing his bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 2006, Thomas Reilly, the former attorney general of Massachusetts, began weighing offers from private law firms of all sizes.