My WBZ Morning Headlines for 1/23/2009

[0:35]" A wrong way crash kills two people on 495. In Bellingham I'm Kim Tunnicliffe a few writer stops a mugger."

[0:43]" You can't give -- Anything I'm Karen Twomey here's he had Hewitt a bit milder today colder air will start to come in tomorrow and it'll be very cold."

[0:51]" Sunday and Monday WBZ news Tommy don't want -- city and town leaders from across the commonwealth are gathering here in Boston today for their annual meeting. And they're likely to get so bad news from the governor WBZ's Carl Stevens is here with a live preview Carl. Had more than a thousand city and town leaders are gathering in Boston the mass municipal association's annual meeting they will hear from the governor about local aid. And MMA executive director Jeffrey back with tells me they may not like what they hear."

[1:17]" We are eight expecting. Realistic news and potentially grim news regarding. The -- Fears for Commonwealth's finances. And what the spillover would be cities."

[1:30]" Town to governor will not cut chapter seventy education aid but there will likely be cuts and a lot of other areas of locally Carl Stevens WBZ Newsradio 1030 thank you -- is going to take a lot of medicine to heal the nation's sick economy and congressional leaders and the president are trying to come up with -- right prescription. The president will be -- those leaders today to discuss the status of the spending and tax legislation that he demanded before he took office. The Massachusetts attorney general is said to be investigating these huge health insurer blue cross blue shield of Massachusetts. At the sprawling partners healthcare operators of Mass. General Brigham and women's in Newton Wellesley hospitals. The if you most of north into illegally colluded to push up the cause of health insurance premiums over the past nine years. The paper earlier reported to blue cross increase its payments to partners hospitals. And positions much higher than two other providers on the alleged promise of partners would try to squeeze more money. A -- of other insurance plans the plan is believed to have shortchanged as some other big hospital and their doctors to a boosted insurance bills to consumers. At a cost taxpayers hundreds of millions and subsidize care. WBZ news -- to a man and woman killed in what police say it was a wrong way crash on route 495 in Bellingham earlier this morning WBZ's Kim Tunnicliffe as the story."

[2:39]" State police started receiving calls just after midnight about a wrong way driver speeding southbound down for a 95 north and Milford sergeant -- says the driver Worcester man made it three or four miles before crashing head on into another car in Bellingham -- drivers weren't really been injured or killed in the crash and house at the scene Sargent Joe -- says the driver of the second car it was a 21 year old Westminster woman --"

[3:07]" Issues doing the right thing they're right tidings assembly gets a warm place."

[3:12]" State police aren't sure why the man was driving the wrong way or how fast he was going in -- Kim Tunnicliffe WBZ. Newsradio 1030."

[3:21]" He's being held as a hero for chasing down a -- on the orange -- something he did because he. Says he knows what it's like to be victimized here's WBZ's Karen Twomey."

[3:52]" You can't be a victim of violent crime both of something like that. Go through the mess I mean I was wheelchair pocket that came. --"

[4:02]" Become a victim thought to anything. The man Solomon chase was arraigned yesterday on charges of assault battery and robbery Karen Twomey WBZ Newsradio 1030."

[4:11]" The governor of New York is said to have made a decision on who's going to fill the seat vacated by Hillary Clinton of the Senate it is not Caroline Kennedy who was withdrawn her. Let's moved -- consideration. It's not Andrew Cuomo it's Kirsten Angela -- A democratic congresswoman from upstate Hudson valley considered one of the top contenders but she's been targeted recent criticism because were supported more conservative issues such as gun ownership rights. Which is out of step with the -- many New York Democrats. About Caroline Kennedy why did she drop out inquiring minds want to know but. Kennedy's office is not giving up much mission a spokesman has scolded the media go for mudslinging. There had been warned that Kennedy had tax problems or domestic issues with the state department of taxation in New York says in her tax records are okay. And the governor says the Kennedy's decision was hers alone and he had not ruled out any candidate before she withdrew. Some parents in Salem of the got a petition drive to try to save the last Catholic school in that city the Boston Archdiocese. Is slated to close the Saint Joseph school in June saying enrollment isn't high enough to pay the bills. Parent Erin go Iraqis tells WBZ that Paris will be taking petitions to church this weekend."

[5:15]" I'm a product of Catholic education and I grew up thinking that that was really important -- my life that from my kids. And I think that's -- needs more formally to continue that message to divide."

[5:28]" Saint Joseph T in this Salem is K through twelve as a 165 students the church says there. Should be about a hundred more students for the school to break even WBZ news time 8 -- just remember to check this out when you've got to work. Listen online every day to wbz1030.com. Time -- the business news from MarketWatch and good morning Ron -- on."