The number of people who have died of drug overdoses in Massachusetts from 2002 through 2007 is nearly 41 times as many as the number of servicemen and women from the state who died in Afghanistan and Iraq over the same span, according to just-released report on drug use in the commonwealth. "If more than 3,200 people from the commonwealth died overseas [in that time span], there would be   Full Story

NORTH ADAMS - For Jennifer Risch, justice has finally been done - at least as best as it can. On Wednesday, parole was denied for the last time to 62-year-old John Maselli, the man convicted of a drunken driving accident that crippled and five years later ultimately killed Risch's sister, Barbra LaFrance.   Full Story