R.I. boarding school hires former Mass. AG to investigate sex abuse

R.I. boarding school hires former Mass. AG to investigate sex abuse

BOSTON (AP) — A former Massachusetts attorney general has been hired to conduct an independent investigation into allegations of sexual abuse at a prestigious Rhode Island boarding school.

More than 40 former students at St. George's School in Middletown have alleged they were molested or raped there, mostly in the 1970s and '80s.

MBTA considers complete replacement of Green Line fleet
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MBTA considers complete replacement of Green Line fleet

State House News Service

BOSTON — MBTA staff is considering a complete replacement of the Green Line fleet in the next decade or so, a roughly $1 billion procurement that generated some words of caution from the T's control board on Monday.

"Right now I think staff's recommendation for the Green Line fleet in all would be that we would do one single procurement, one large procurement and replace all of these three fleets," MBTA Chief Operating Officer Jeff Gonneville told the T's Fiscal and Management Control Board on Monday.

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