Seminar offers diverse perspectives on addiction
DEDHAM — As New England and much of the nation grapple with the effects of widespread addiction to heroin and prescription opioids, many experts say an important cultural shift is changing their...
View ArticleNatick Police continue search for robbery suspect
NATICK – Police have not arrested the man they said tried to rob a Speen Street jewelry store at gunpoint on Tuesday.The man left empty-handed after he tried to rob Long’s Fine Jewelers, 323 Speen St.,...
View ArticleCommittees hold closed-door meeting on criminal case
NORTHBOROUGH — Two weeks after a school employee was arrested on embezzlement charges, School Committee members from Northborough and Southborough met behind closed doors Wednesday to discuss criminal...
View ArticleSouthborough Police chief gets $18K pay bump
SOUTHBOROUGH — Police Chief Ken Paulhus is getting $18,000 raise in a move selectmen say will put his salary on par with his experience, and the pay of his counterparts in surrounding towns. Selectmen...
View ArticleState Trooper Clardy honored by Hudson Police, community
HUDSON - In tight formation with their hands raised to their brows, police lined Central Street Thursday to salute fallen State Trooper Thomas Clardy as his body was brought to the Tighe-Hamilton...
View ArticleJudge dismisses case against woman charged with biting Framingham police
FRAMINGHAM — A Framingham District Court judge on Thursday dismissed charges against a woman accused of assaulting two Framingham police officers.Police arrested Eunika Hardy on April 26, 2015 on a...
View ArticleEx-treasurer sentenced for embezzling $175K from Framingham soccer club
FRAMINGHAM — A Framingham man received a two-year prison sentence after pleading guilty Thursday to embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from the Framingham United Soccer Club, Middlesex District...
View ArticleWAYLAND: Judge finds Cass not guilty of computer theft
Former Wayland Public School’s athletic director Stephen Cass said he can finally move on with his life after a judge on Thursday cleared him of a larceny charge.“Now, with my record clear, I can find...
View ArticleFormer Framingham cop charged with open and gross lewdness at elementary school
FRAMINGHAM – A substitute bus driver and former Framingham Police officer was charged with open and gross lewdness after police say he urinated off the steps of a school bus in front of Hemenway...
View ArticleVictim: Man broke into Ashland home after helping on town business
ASHLAND – An Ashland woman is alleging a Millbury man stole from her after he had come to her home to help care for birds she had rescued.Kevin Rudolph, 19, of 4 Captain Peter Simpson Road, was...
View ArticleImmigration officials ask for detainers on men accused of rape in Framingham
Federal immigration officials have asked for detainers on the four men accused of a gang rape in Framingham earlier this week, according to the Boston Herald. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
View ArticleTreatment no longer behind bars
FRAMINGHAM – Coming off of opiates is indescribably awful, Kerriann Kilcoyne said, like no flu non-addicts have experienced before. The best explanation she could think of for the feeling is like an...
View ArticleFramingham house fire leaves four displaced
FRAMINGHAM - Four people are displaced after a house fire at 49 Crest Road on Sunday left one side of the building scorched from the garage to the attic.According to Deputy Chief Kevin Burns,...
View ArticleFire destroys Hopkinton home
HOPKINTON — Firefighters Sunday night battled a fire that ripped through a Pine Tree Lane home, and quickly extinguished a deck fire on the other side of town at the same time.Interim Fire Chief Steve...
View ArticleHearing postponed for Framingham rape suspects
FRAMINGHAM – Citing the need to review a video and other evidence, lawyers for three men accused of kidnapping and raping a woman last week asked a Framingham District Court judge on Monday to postpone...
View ArticleWest Boylston woman facing OUI drug-alcohol charges
FRAMINGHAM – A West Boylston woman admitted on Sunday to drinking several hard ciders, then smoking marijuana while she drove, authorities said.State police arrested Antonia M. Needham-Wood, 36, after...
View ArticleHudson: Huge crowd pays respects to fallen state trooper
HUDSON - More than 1,000 people queued up along Manning Street Monday, slowly making their way into St. Michael's Church to pay their respects to State Trooper Thomas Clardy, who died in the line of...
View ArticleFour arrested after fight in Framingham
FRAMINGHAM – Police arrested three Framingham men and one Hopkinton man Sunday after a fight on Bates Road.Police arrested Ernesto Cortez, 18, Trevis J. Santos, 20, and Michael Figueroa, 18, all of...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court orders rehearing in Ashland stun gun arrest case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court came together Monday on the unlikely issue of guns, ordering Massachusetts' top court to look again at the state's ban on stun guns.The justices, with no apparent...
View ArticleNatick School Committee rejects expanded searches by police dogs
NATICK - The School Committee has rejected an effort to expand the role of police dogs in looking for drugs and other contraband.On Monday, the committee in a divided vote decided not to adopt a...
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