The state has ruled that a video of a controversial magic trick performed at an Abington School Committee meeting will not be released to the public, a ruling one expert in public records law called ...

Russell FitzGerald made his mark on School Committee meetings by doing magic, including the infamous “bra trick” that eventually brought him to resign. Now, police say, he has made his mark on an ...

Unusual news nuggets from around the globe: ABINGTON, Mass. — The chairman of the school committee in Abington, Mass., is apologizing for a magic trick he performed before a televised meeting in which ...

Video of the former Abington School Committee chairman performing a magic trick with a bra that embarrassed another board member does not have to be released, the Massachusetts secretary of state’s ...

A Massachusetts school committee chairman and amateur Houdini has apologized for his bizarre introduction to a televised meeting – a magic trick that appeared to rip off a female teacher’s bra through ...

School Committee Chairman and amateur magician Russell W. Fitzgerald likes to open public meetings with a personal display of prestidigitation. Once, he made a glass of water disappear under a ...

ABINGTON, Mass. -- The chairman of a Massachusetts school board has resigned days after performing a magic trick at a televised meeting that made it appear as if he had removed a fellow board member's ...

ABINGTON (CBS) - The chairman of the Abington School Committee is an amateur magician who likes to lighten up the start of meetings with some tricks. But Russell Fitzgerald may have gone too far ...

ABINGTON, Mass. – The chairman of the school committee in Abington, Mass., is apologizing for a magic trick he performed before a televised meeting this week in which he appeared to tear the bra off a ...

Russell Fitzgerald usually started the school committee meetings with a magic trick. Last week, however, Fitzgerald's trick was met with stoney silence. And now he's resigned, after 11 years as ...