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Rocks fall onto I-495 near Wrentham
WRENTHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - A pile of rubble slid onto I-495 near Wrentham Tuesday afternoon as a result of scheduled blasting operations, according to MassDOT. A photo sent to 7NEWS shows a slew of rocks on the highway just before Exit 38. The blasting operations were part of the I-495/Route...
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Town Secretly Seizes Developers' Property Then Threatens Them With Trespassing Citation
Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter focuses on some shocking updates to a Rhode Island eminent domain case we covered last month. As readers might recall, in the Providence suburb of Johnston, the town government and its very outspoken mayor have been attempting to seize a family of developers' land to prevent their construction of an unsubsidized affordable housing project.
Patriot Ledger
A top Quincy official arrested on drunken driving charge. What we know
QUINCY ‒ The city's Commissioner of Public Health, Marli Caslli , was arrested over the weekend and charged with operating his vehicle under the influence of alcohol, according to court records. Read the latest story: What the mayor has to say about city official charged with drunken driving Caslli, 29, of Abington, was travelling 100 miles per hour on Route 3 South in Weymouth at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 16, when a state trooper pulled him over, according to the police report. He was arraigned the following day in Quincy District Court, where he pleaded not guilty and...
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A Massachusetts woman wins $1 million State Lottery prize from scratch ticket that caught her eye
The color of a State Lottery scratch ticket turned out to be very lucrative for a Massachusetts woman. According to the Massachusetts State Lottery, Maria Manchester of Fall River has won a $1 million prize in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s “Emerald Mine 50X” $5 instant ticket game that went on sale Tuesday, January 7.
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Behavior of town officials at meetings called into question
In the past few weeks, I have attended seven meetings, either in person or on Zoom, including Select Board, Zoning Board of Appeals, Precinct 3, Board of Health, Community Preservation Committee and Advisory & Financial Committee. I have been learning a lot and wanting to find ways to become more involved and informed.
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Massachusetts Teen’s TERRIFYING Encounter Sparks 48-Year Mystery of the ‘Dover Demon’
DOVER, MA — On a cool spring night in April 1977, 17-year-old Bill Bartlett’s routine drive through Dover took an extraordinary turn that would cement this small Massachusetts town in paranormal history. What he spotted perched on an old stone wall would spark decades of debate and launch Dover into cryptozoological fame.
The Enterprise
'Devastating loss': Randolph police officer hit and killed by train in Abington
ABINGTON — Sgt. Scott Sherman, a Randolph police officer with 23 years of service , died Sunday after being struck by a train. According to the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office and Transit Police Department, an MBTA commuter rail train hit a pedestrian at the Birch Street railroad crossing just before 8 p.m. Sunday. A first responder from Abington declared the man dead at the scene. He was later identified as Sherman, 56. The DA's office said the crossing gates were working. Transit Police said the train's lights and bells were activated and that the train sounded its horn....
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Takeaways from the first two episodes of new Karen Read docuseries
Through the first two episodes of “A Body in the Snow,” a new docuseries chronicling the Karen Read case, it becomes clear that the schism between Read and the family of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, developed quickly in the wake of his death and her subsequent arrest.