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SALEM, Conn. - Connecticut state police say a 6-year-old boy has died in a wood chipper accident while helping his father on a landscaping job during school vacation week. Lt. J. Paul Vance says Jeffrey Bourgeois was putting a branch into the chipper Tuesday morning in Salem when it pulled...

While other Martin Luther King projects seem to be on the ropes, DreamWorks' untitled biopic about the slain civil rights leader is starting to come together. Kario Salem, best known for writing the 2001 Robert De Niro-Edward Norton drama "The Score," is in negotiations to pen the project...

SALEM, Mass. -- A Salem father is facing assault charges after being accused of firing a paintball gun at three girls. Officials said Ricky Bettencourt, 37, tried to blame his five-year-old daughter after being spotted shooting paintballs at several girls, ages 7, 9 and 11. “I just can’t...