Tasia Newell held her newborn, Royalty Ann, close Wednesday, surrounded by half a dozen loved ones in her hospital room in Davenport. Royalty Ann Newell was the first baby born in the new year ...

Stratton, who died Jan. 18 at the age of 93, was a Quincy native and one of the longest-serving POWs of the Vietnam war.

Fitzgerald researched Stratton's life for the city when a street was named in honor of him. He said that Stratton was born and raised in North Quincy, where he grew up on Bowdoin Street, attended ...