Try to find the pro-greyhound racing group “POWAAH” in an Internet search and all routes lead to the anti-dog racing “GREY2KUSA.”

Eight Boston Police Department personnel have been disciplined after the conclusion of a three-year investigation regarding steroid use among officers. None of the BPD personnel worked at District E-5 in West Roxbury.

Erin Sinnott has traveled twice to the Asian nation of Nepal.  A native of Wilton, Conn., Sinnott has also visited, on a few occasions, the town of Norwell. It is unknown whether Sinnott, who recently graduated from Colgate University, has ever played in a game of paintball.

A former employee of a Cambridge-based real estate firm has been charged with embezzling more than $450,000 from the business, Carpenter & Company. According to the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation unit, Matthew Abusheery, 36, of Whitman was indicted on Thursday and charged with wire fraud and filing false tax returns after allegedly inflating his bi-weekly salary and pocketing unauthorized checks that were negotiated for “petty cash.”

Christopher West, 41, of North Eastham, was struck and killed by lightning while clamming in a boat near Sipson’s Island on Little Pleasant Bay in Orleans on Wednesday. An extremely intense thunderstorm, with a 24,000-foot high thunderhead, rolled across the Lower and Outer Cape bringing torrential rains, high winds and near nighttime darkness, just after 5 p.m.

Andrea Ruggiero robbed the Eastland Gas Station only a mere nine days after pleading guilty to three counts of armed robbery in Suffolk Superior Court, police said.

Despite a challenging economy impacting a number of other established yacht races, a total of 102 skippers will leave Marblehead Harbor on Sunday for the 360-mile course that will end in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Developers George and Robert Turner park excavator on front lawn of historic shovel factory complex they want to demolish.

With a state energy board set to approve a proposed Brockton power plant, one city councilor says the city should plan to file suit against the board over the issue of “environmental justice.”

Stop & Shop is recalling some ground beef  and store-brand dried milk as part of  recent voluntarily national recalls  because the products have the potential to be contaminated with bacteria.