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Police officer hit, killed by excavator while working at construction site
BILLERICA, Mass. (WBZ) - A Massachusetts police officer died in a construction accident on Friday. Forty-nine-year-old Sergeant Ian Taylor was struck by an excavator while helping a tractor-trailer get around the construction site. The Billerica police officer was taken to the hospital, but he did not survive. The road in...
16 Suspects Indicted in Major Boston Drug Bust, Over 100K Fentanyl-Laced Pills Seized
BOSTON – Sixteen suspects are back in the hot seat as a federal grand jury in Boston slams them with a superseding indictment for their roles in purportedly running a major drug ring. The charges follow a massive haul in which investigators confiscated over 100,000 pills laced with deadly fentanyl and methamphetamine.
"Philip Chism is a monster," detention center attack victim says
BOSTON - Philip Chism, convicted of killing Danvers High School math teacher Colleen Ritzer in 2013 when he was 14 years old, changed his plea to guilty Friday for a subsequent attack at a Department of Youth Services detention center.Chism, now 25, was 15 when he attacked and seriously injured a 29-year-old female clinician at the Boston facility on June 2, 2014. He was accused of sneaking into a staff locker room bathroom and trying to choke and kill the woman. After other employees came to the woman's rescue and freed her, Chism repeatedly yelled "I'm gonna kill them all,"...
A man accused in a Harvard bomb threat and extortion plot is sentenced to 3 years probation
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A New Hampshire man accused of participating in a plot in which a caller issued bomb threats last year to Harvard University and demanded a large amount of bitcoin was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation. The threats caused the evacuation of Harvard’s Science...
Why beavers are essential to improving the climate and preventing wildfires
STOW - Beavers are small, but mighty creatures, but they are often given a bad rap as destructive. Commonly cutting down trees to build their homes.But beaver dams also help create environments that can actually improve our climate.Beavers create wetlandsDuring an outing with the Department of Conservation and Recreation's Dave Wattles in Stow, WBZ's Jason Mikell walked through the woods to find a beaver dam."They're really seen as a keystone species because of the way they create these wetland systems," says Wattles."By having these wetland suites, it creates an environment for a variety of wildlife species. amphibians, our reptiles, our...
Flight attendant indicted in attempt to record teen girl in airplane bathroom
BOSTON (AP) — An American Airlines flight attendant was indicted Thursday after authorities said he tried to secretly record video of a 14-year-old girl using an airplane bathroom last September. Police have also alleged that Estes Carter Thompson III, 36, of Charlotte, North Carolina, had recordings of four other...
Boston man sentenced for trying to hire hit man to kill ex-wife because of her 'Westernization'
BOSTON (TCD) -- A 47-year-old man will spend just under eight years in prison for trying to hire a contract killer to murder his ex-wife and her new boyfriend because the woman reportedly wouldn’t allow him to see his children. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts...
A Former Postal Service Worker Has Been Charged With Mail Theft
BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — A former postal service worker has been indicted by a federal grand jury of theft of mail and theft of government funds, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. The individual, Michael Murray, 36, of Lynn, was charged with one count of...
Local Law Enforcement and Community Rally in Search for Missing Man Michael Santos in Lowell
Authorities are urgently searching for Michael Santos, a 29-year-old man reported missing since yesterday afternoon. Santos, described as having a thin frame at 5’5” and 120 pounds, with brown hair, brown eyes, and distinguishable glasses, was last sighted in the Nesmith St./Andover St. area at around 12:30 p.m. Lowell Police Department released this information, also noting that he has a notable tattoo on his neck.
Triston Casas clarifies nature of injury, likens it to ‘car crash’ inside body
BOSTON — Triston Casas does not, in fact, have a fractured rib, but rather some fractured cartilage which connects his ribcage to his sternum. “No ribs were fractured, so it’s not a bone thing. It’s more a cartilage thing. The way that the doctors explained it to me,” offered Casas, “is one isn’t better than the other. If it was. muscle or a bone or cartilage, they’re all similar timetable schedules. It’s not like one’s better than the other, Everything in the midsection takes a long time to heal and mend and there’s a lot of torque and rotation that happens during your swing that needs to be perfect. As of right now, it’s just a lot of rest to help it heal. But no real rehabilitation process to go through for this type of injury.
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