Quincy Mayor Tom Koch's salary could spike to $370,000 under a recommendation to the City Council possibly a 132% jump from his current salary of less than $160,000.
A Duxbury man who killed his father by "baptizing" him in a local pond because the son apparently saw the "demon" in his dad's eyes has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
A former Massachusetts State Police lieutenant will spend five years in federal prison and pay fines and assessments just short of $508,000 for his part in the agency overtime fraud scandal.
State police say the driver who was grazed by a bullet that struck his truck was not involved in the road rage incident, which happened on the opposite side of the highway.