A Boston-area English teacher gave a speech at a recent high school graduation that has many people talking. Wellesley High teacher David McCullough Jr. gave the graduating class an earful about their lack of specialness that targeted what it would appear he considered the failures of modern parenting. The speech began with thanking the class for allowing ... read more »

A Framingham, MA mother is furious after a teacher’s aide at Woodrow Wilson Elementary school pulled her son’s tooth — and not the one that was loose. Sabrina Grant’s 10-year-old son, Chris Quirk, is autistic. He went to school with a loose tooth and returned with a molar pulled — and no one notified Grant. “Oh ... read more »

One hit wonder Stevie B has been arrested by police in Massachusetts and charged with being a deadbeat dad. Steven Bernard Hill, who’s syrupy ballad “Because I Love You (The Postman Song)” hit number one on the Billboard charts in 1990, was performing at the Massmutual Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, with other throwback acts Expose ... read more »

An activist group in Massachusetts is calling for an end to the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in schools, saying it has no educational value. Brookline Political Action for Peace, also known as Brookline PAX, is calling for an end to the morning routine that has taken place in classrooms throughout the United States ... read more »

Two teenagers accused of bullying Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old Irish immigrant girl who eventually committed suicide, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to a year of probation to avoid more significant charges. Sean Mulveyhill, 18, and Kayla Narey, also 18, had their plea arrangements accepted on Wednesday appearing in court in Hampshire, Massachusetts, and 3 other ... read more »

Kristen LaBrie, the Salem, Massachusetts, woman accused of attempted murder and child endangerment for withholding cancer drugs from her young son, has been found guilty. LaBrie was charged for refusing in 2006 to fill a prescription for her son Jeremy’s chemotherapy medication to help treat the boy’s cancer. Jeremy died a few years later. At ... read more »

A young boy from Dudley, Massachusetts, died after a fall from an escalator in a department store at a nearby mall. 4-year-old Mark DiBona was rushed to the UMass Memorial Medical Center, but was pronounced dead before 10 p.m., reports the Worcester Telegram. The boy had reportedly been at the Sears store at the Auburn ... read more »

A 4-year-old boy in New Bedford, Massachusetts, was so horrifically beaten with a belt that he had to be taken to the hospital. A hospital nurse told WPRI-12 that the boy’s injuries were so bad, that she “was brought to tears.” Police have arrested Elvis Garcia, 31, the boyfriend of the boy’s mother. Garcia has ... read more »

A school bus driver in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts has been fired for dropping a 9-year-old girl along the side of a busy road after the girl changed seats. “I switched seats,” Cyrena Medbury told FOX News on Monday. Donald Davison Jr. of Grafton was fired by the school bus company AA Transportation Inc. after the incident ... read more »

An 8-year-old Connecticut boy is dead after accidentally shooting himself with an Uzi machine gun while using it at a gun show. Who the hell would let a kid that young handle such a weapon? The boy, identified as Christopher Bizilj, was firing the Uzi when he lost control, forcing it upwards and back, causing ... read more »

A toddler around 2 years old was found by himself walking along an East Boston neighborhood — at 4 o’clock in the morning. A livery driver spotted the child with dark, curly brown hair and brown eyes on White Street near Meridian Street and, because it was late and there was no one on the ... read more »

An 11-year-old girl in Boston went missing from a neighborhood McDonald’s earlier this week. Apparently it’s not the first time she has wandered off. Marizali Aponti was last seen at about 6 p.m. on Tuesday at a McDonald’s near Central Square in East Boston with her 7-year-old brother, police said. She is described as Hispanic, ... read more »

Can someone take this woman’s kids already? A mom who previously had been arrested for helping her daughters kick a teen girl’s ass at the mall is in trouble again. This time, she’s being accused of restraining her 12-year-old son with belts. Police found the boy in the street with his legs and arms restrained. ... read more »

The Gloucester, Massachusetts high school principal who accused female students of getting pregnant on purpose after a sharp increase in teen pregnancies at the school has resigned. Time magazine reported in June that Joseph Sullivan said a pact made by a group of teens to get pregnant and raise their babies together was at least ... read more »

Rodlyn Petitbois is in police custody after being accused of kidnapping his wife and four children. The woman and children have been found safe. Petitbois is also suspected of fatally stabbing another woman found at their home. State police in Massachusetts and New York had issued Amber Alerts for the siblings. Massachusetts prosecutors are seeking ... read more »