Two-alarm fire leaves Hopkinton home uninhabitable
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...
View ArticleAG: 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...
View ArticleBail 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...
View ArticleINHUMAN 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...
View ArticleDell 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...
View ArticleHome 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...
View ArticleLISTEN: Extra! Extra! hosts talk breaking news with multimedia journalist...
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...
View ArticleFramingham 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...
View ArticleFramingham 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,...
View ArticleMedway 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...
View ArticleMan 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...
View ArticleWorcester 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...
View ArticlePolice 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...
View ArticleThree 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...
View ArticleSouthborough 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,...
View ArticleDA: 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...
View ArticleFour 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...
View ArticleFramingham 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...
View ArticleFramingham 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...
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