Injured police dog released from hospital

YARMOUTH — The police dog shot when his handler was killed while serving an arrest warrant in Massachusetts has been released from a veterinary hospital.

Yarmouth police say Nero was released Wednesday, the same day as Yarmouth K-9 Officer Sean Gannon’s funeral.

Police say the Belgian malinois was taken in Gannon’s cruiser to the home of retired Yarmouth K-9 Officer Peter McClelland. McClelland stayed in the hospital by Nero’s side for 144 consecutive hours.

Once Nero is fully healed, he will return to Gannon’s family.

Nero was shot in the face and neck on April 12 while Gannon and other officers were serving an arrest warrant at a Barnstable home.

In addition to a murder charge, the suspect in the case has been charged with mistreating or interfering with a police dog.

Man wins $1 million in Mass. lottery — again

METHUEN — A man has won a $1 million prize in the state lottery for the second time this year.

Jason Williams won the first prize in January and claimed the second one on Tuesday. In both cases, he opted to take the one-time cash payment of $650,000.

Williams tells the Boston Globe that his wife had a dream last year that they would win the lottery in 2018, adding, “2018 isn’t over, so we’ll keep playing.”

The Methuen man says he’s saving the money for his children and continues to work despite the windfall.

Ex-boarding school priest faces new child sex abuse charges

MIDDLETOWN, R.I. — A former Rhode Island boarding school priest currently imprisoned in Massachusetts is facing new child sex abuse charges in North Carolina.

The Providence Journal reports Howard White Jr. faces nine counts for allegedly abusing a boy and a girl in the 1980s while he worked at Grace Church in the Mountains in Waynesville, North Carolina.

White is set to be released soon from the Suffolk County House of Corrections in Boston. He was sentenced to 18-months in prison last year after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a student during school trips to Boston in 1973 while serving as chaplain at St. George’s School in Middletown, R.I.

White was stripped of his priesthood by the Episcopal Church. His attorney didn’t immediately comment on the new charges.