HOPKINTON – Investigators are still probing for a cause of a two-alarm house fire that heavily damaged a Wood Street home on Thursday, fire authorities said.The two-story home at 221 Wood St., is uninhabitable after the 2:17 p.m. fire, Deputy Fire Chief Bill Miller said.The fire department was alerted by several 911 calls. The Milford Fire Department was first at the home because it had just picked up a truck being repaired nearby, the deputy chief said. [...]
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Two-alarm fire leaves Hopkinton home uninhabitable
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AG: Wayland Audit Committee violated Open Meeting Law
WAYLAND - The Audit Committee violated the Open Meeting Law by not promptly approving minutes dating back to 2014 and not responding in a timely manner to a request to view minutes, the state Attorney General's Office determined this week."We order the committee's immediate and future compliance with the law's requirements, and we caution that similar future violations could be considered evidence of intent to [...]
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Bail set at $1M in kidnap case
WORCESTER — Bail was set at $1 million cash Thursday for a Worcester man charged with abducting a 7-year-old girl, choking her and throwing her into Lake Quinsigamond from the Interstate 290 bridge.A dangerousness hearing had been scheduled in Central District Court for Joshua J. Hubert, 35, of 3 Bernice St., who was charged with kidnapping the girl, but Assistant District Attorney Cheryl R. Riddle told Judge David P. Despotopulos she was withdrawing her request for the hearing [...]
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INHUMAN TRADE: Victims, advocates, law enforcement speak out
Throughout the month of August, Wicked Local journalists examined the complicated issues of human trafficking in Massachusetts in a four-part series called "Inhuman Trade." Below is a summary of the four main articles, but be sure to visit our special webpage collecting stories from around the Wicked Local network.OVERVIEWMassachusetts was the 48th [...]
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Dell EMC settles discrimination complaint
HOPKINTON - Dell EMC, formerly EMC Corporation, has agreed to pay $110,000 to settle claims of sex and gender identity-based discrimination against a former employee.The settlement resolves claims that a former employee, a transgender woman, was subjected to a hostile work environment based on both her sex and gender identity, denied job opportunities and then was retaliated against for complaining of discrimination.The settlement provides payments of $60,000 to the [...]
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Home destroyed in Milford fire
MILFORD - An overnight fire destroyed a Franklin Street home, fire officials said.Crews responded to 26 Franklin St. around midnight Saturday. An apparent cooking fire had spread from the kitchen to other areas of the single-family home, Lt. Patrick Salmon said."It was well advanced before they got there," Salmon said of the blaze.Three adults inside the home were able to escape unharmed before firefighters arrived. One firefighter suffered minor injuries but did not [...]
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Ashland: No one injured in pair of fires
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LISTEN: Extra! Extra! hosts talk breaking news with multimedia journalist Margaret Smith
Breaking news can be one of the most exciting and stressful parts of journalism. This week on the Extra! Extra! podcast, hosts Caitlyn Kelleher and Joy Richard speak with Chelmsford Independent Multimedia Journalist Margaret Smith about the topic, and her recent experience covering a breaking story.For their sixth episode, the Richard and Kelleher discuss with Smith what goes into each breaking story, and how reporters navigate the sometimes sensitive topics that come with the [...]
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Framingham police respond to bomb threat
FRAMINGHAM — Authorities responded to Walmart Tuesday morning for a reported bomb threat.Police dispatch took an automated call around 10 a.m. indicating there was a bomb inside a pocketbook in the store at 121 Worcester Road, spokesperson Lt. Patricia Grigas said.No further information was immediately available.
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Framingham inmate charged with assaulting fellow inmate
FRAMINGHAM – A woman incarcerated at MCI-Framingham was charged with assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after she allegedly hit another inmate with a belt.Maria Metz, 32, was arraigned Tuesday on the two charges, which stem from a Dec. 1 incident at the state prison that was caught on surveillance camera.Metz admitted to using her belt to assault a female inmate, striking her twice, according to a Department of Correction incident report [...]
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Medway police use Taser and bean-bag gun to end standoff
MEDWAY - A local man is in custody after allegedly threatening a neighbor with a knife and barricading himself in his house - a situation that had police block off several roads Wednesday afternoon.Russell McCarter, 63, of 3 Golden Rod Drive, was arrested as a result of the incident, police said. Chief Allen Tingley said the department would likely seek assault and battery charges against him.According to Tingley, a neighbor discovered McCarter smoking in a garage at around [...]
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Man tells police he was assaulted, robbed during drug deal
FRAMINGHAM – Police are investigating after a man claimed to be assaulted and robbed during a drug deal on Curtis Road Tuesday night.The 34-year-old victim told police he arranged to sell marijuana to another man through the mobile phone application High There – which connects marijuana enthusiasts around the world, said Police Lt. Patricia Grigas.The pair met shortly before 8 p.m. and drove to the Curtis Road [...]
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Worcester man busted after stealing chainsaws from Lowe's
WESTBOROUGH – A Worcester man police say stole three chainsaws from Lowe’s last month was arrested Wednesday after trying to steal two more chainsaws from the Rte. 9 hardware store.Lowe’s employees reported three chainsaws were stolen from the store on Aug. 17. Police determined a red Ford pickup truck was involved in the thefts using store surveillance cameras, Police Chief Alan Gordon said in a press release.Officers checked area pawn shops and [...]
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Police arrest man wo slashed Target employee's arm, stole baby formula
WESTBOROUGH – A homeless man was arrested last week for stealing more than $100 worth of baby formula from Target and slashing an employee’s arm with a box cutter during his getaway in July, police said.The man – later identified as Thomas Millott – was stealing baby formula when he was confronted by the loss prevention officer while trying to leave the Rte. 9 store on July 31. Millott slashed the employee’s arm with the box cutter, ran from the [...]
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Three arrested after Framingham car check
FRAMINGHAM - Three people were arrested Wednesday night after police checked a suspicious car on Franklin Street.Two were arrested on drug charges. Alfaro Juan Videla, 20, of 21 Charles St., was charged with conspiracy to violate drug law, and possession of cocaine, a Class B substance. Michael A. Figueroa, also 20, of 9 Bracket Road, was charged with conspiracy to violate drug law, and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.Details on the third person arrested, a [...]
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Southborough police charge man with Rte. 9 break-ins
SOUTHBOROUGH — Police have filed charges against an Ashland man accused of breaking and entering into two Rte. 9 businesses in July.The department this week issued warrants for Jermaine P. Sampson, 43, with a last known address of 2 Presidents Row in Ashland, on charges of two counts of breaking and entering nighttime, two counts of destruction of property over $250, one count of larceny from a building and two counts of trespass.Officers responded to a burglar alarm at [...]
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DA: Four murdered in Groton
Authorities say four people were found dead at a home in the small town of Groton in north central Massachusetts. A suspect is in custody.Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan says police found two women and a man dead inside a home on Common Street Friday night and another woman's body outside. She says they appeared to have died of blunt force trauma.Ryan says Orion Krause, 22, will be charged with four counts of murder. A possible weapon was found. It wasn't known [...]
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Four murdered in Groton
A 22-year-old man will face murder charges in the deaths of four people found at a home in the small town of Groton in north central Massachusetts.Police in Groton found two women and a man dead inside a house and another woman's body outside on Friday night. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said the victims— an elderly man and woman and two middle-aged women —appeared to have died of blunt force trauma. Their identities and other details had not been released [...]
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Framingham woman nearly strikes cop, police say
FRAMINGHAM – A Framingham woman was arrested Monday after police said she nearly hit a police officer as she drove through a construction zone on Cochituate Road and then led another cop on a brief chase.Karla Melendez, 24, told police she didn’t stop after the 8 p.m. incident because she had a suspended license, police said.Police Sgt. Scott Brown was working the detail when he tried to stop Melendez' car, police spokeswoman Lt. Patricia Grigas said. [...]
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Framingham man released after dangerousness hearing
FRAMINGHAM – A Framingham man is too dangerous to release to the public because he keeps terrorizing his estranged wife, ignoring court orders, a prosecutor told a Framingham District Court judge on Tuesday.But, Christopher Shannon, J.C. Pressley’s defense lawyer, argued that his client is the victim of lies by his wife, who is trying to use the police and courts to get her own way.“These are falsehoods,” Shannon told Judge Jennifer Stark on Tuesday [...]
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