Fall River
BOSTON - An 80-year-old woman lay for a month in a recliner soaked with her waste, her long toenails curling back into her skin and suffering from deep bedsores, authorities said in announcing charges against five family members.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - John Robitaille nearly swerved his car off Interstate 95 when he heard a Boston radio station report that his old classmates had accused a Roman Catholic priest of sexually abusing them as children.
FALL RIVER, Mass. - A former Massachusetts dentist is accused of placing paper clips instead of stainless steel posts inside the teeth of root canal patients while billing Medicaid for the more expensive parts.