Natick police: Man uses fake credit card to try to buy purses
NATICK – A New York man is accused of using a fabricated credit card on Thursday while trying to buy two purses worth nearly $3,000 at a Natick Mall store.Police arrested Ming Hum Cheung, 31, after...
View ArticleAudit: Worcester district attorney's office had lowest assistant district...
BOSTON — An audit reveals that state raises reduced turnover for experienced assistant district attorneys from an average rate of 13.5 percent to 5.4 percent, and that the Worcester district attorney’s...
View ArticleGetting weapons off the streets: Framingham police hold gun buyback
Framingham police held its second gun buyback. The goal is to get weapons off the streets. Those who turned in a gun received a free gift card. No questions were asked, and some participants said the...
View ArticleFramingham names 2 new deputy chiefs
FRAMINGHAM – Two new Framingham Police Department deputy chiefs will be promoted at a ceremony next Monday.Lester Baker and Victor Pereira, both currently lieutenants, will be promoted at the ceremony...
View ArticleWoman charged with hitting Framingham bar employee with rock
FRAMINGHAM – A Connecticut woman told police she was only trying to defend her friend late Saturday night, but authorities said she attacked a Beacon Street bar employee with a rock.Police arrested...
View ArticleRandolph man charged in Framingham assault
Michael B. Alexander was arrested Saturday after authorities said he attacked a woman with her own kitchen table and trashed her apartment
View ArticleHomeless man busted again in Framingham
David Bradford has a 28-page record for breaking into cars and stealing items. He is once again facing charges in connection to a car break.
View ArticleAshland police chief explains how data-driven justice can help
Ashland Police Chief Craig Davis remembers a homeless veteran who used to roam Framingham’s downtown."There was considerable concern amongst us .... that this person was going to die," said Davis, who...
View ArticleMiddlesex county, sheriff's department selected to pilot Data-Driven Justice...
They’re called frequent utilizers.Some are the homeless veterans arrested for disturbing the peace every few weeks, or the addicts brought back from the brink of repeated overdoses. They have an...
View ArticleVideo: Natick Police search for wallet thief
NATICK – Police are looking for the public’s help to find a man caught on video recently stealing a wallet from a woman’s purse at a local business.Natick police posted the video on their Facebook page...
View ArticleFour men indicted in MetroWest crimes
WOBURN – Two men who police said shot a man during a Framingham home invasion in December were among several people recently indicted by a Middlesex County Grand Jury.The grand jury charged Cleadson...
View ArticleSouthborough breaks ground on $22M public safety complex
SOUTHBOROUGH — As golfers teed off in the background Tuesday afternoon, town officials ceremonially broke ground on a new public safety complex to be built on a portion of the golf course on Rte. 85...
View ArticleMass. House Speaker DeLeo pushing 'red flag' gun bill
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Democratic Speaker Robert DeLeo says he plans to bring a bill before the Massachusetts House that would let firearms be taken from people who show unstable or potentially dangerous...
View ArticleTwo-alarm fire heavily damages Sudbury home, two pets saved
SUDBURY – Firefighters from five departments battled a blaze on Goodman’s Hill Road Wednesday that was so intense they had to fight it from the outside.In the end, no one was injured and a dog and cat...
View ArticleMilford officer helps family get elderly woman back
MILFORD – When a Randolph man took his 81-year-old grandmother out of a Milford nursing home without permission on Tuesday, his family knew something was wrong. They called Milford Police and spoke to...
View ArticleMilford police officer hurt in overnight crash
MILFORD — A Milford police officer was injured early Thursday in a crash involving the officer's cruiser and another vehicle.The cruiser and a Lexus with a man and a young child inside crashed at 2...
View ArticleMan jumps on school bus hood on I-90 in Newton
A school bus driver's camera recorded the scary moment when another driver stopped in the middle of the Mass. Pike, exited his car and climbed onto the hood of the bus.The bus driver was returning from...
View ArticleDriver held on bail, warrant; Milford officer released from hospital
MILFORD — A Milford woman, already facing a drunken-driving charge in Worcester, was ordered held Thursday, hours after police say she drunkenly slammed her car into a cruiser, injuring an...
View ArticleLincoln-Sudbury School Committee responds to criticisms about sexual assault...
SUDBURY -- The Lincoln-Sudbury Regional School Committee, responding to criticism that the school district failed to investigate a reported sexual assault in 2013, says the idea that the incident was...
View ArticleHopkinton: Court records sealed in Louise Coleman's animal cruelty case
No one will have access to any court document used during the animal cruelty trial of the founder and former executive director of Greyhound Friends of Hopkinton.On Thursday, Judge Martine Carroll...
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