Friday 30th July, 2010
TSA questions man boarding plane to Boston
WASHINGTON -- The TSA in Washington is questioning an airline passenger who claimed to be a terrorist. The man apparently became unruly while on board a US Airways flight to Boston from Reagan Nationa...
Police suspect man in 2 Fall River assaults
FALL RIVER, Mass. -- A man arrested earlier this week on abduction charges is now a suspect in another, similar crime. Police say 37-year-old Angel Luis Cruz is behind the March attack at Fall River&#...
Gravestones damaged in Southbridge
SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass. -- Police in Southbridge are investigating a case of vandalism at a cemetery. On Wednesday, they discovered someone damaged more than 70 gravestones. Some of the graves date back to...
Man slams vehicle into grocery store
7 NewsAYER, Mass. -- A man from Ayer is recovering after slamming his vehicle into a Hannaford Supermarket early Friday. His vehicle ended up in the freezer. Police say the man crawled out of the back of hi...
YMCA to train staff on breastfeeding law
7 NewsBOSTON -- Officials with the Greater Boston YMCA will train 1500 employees on Massachusetts' breastfeeding law. According to the Boston Globe, the decision was made after a Medford mother was told...
Residents Blaming Fisher Cats For Lost Pets
Boston ChannelA number of Metrowest families are reporting that their family pets have been vanishing at an alarming rate, and other animals are turning up dead, and some believe
Kerry Says He Mishandled Yacht Furor
Boston ChannelSen. John Kerry saID he always intended to pay taxes in Massachusetts on his $7 million yacht, but concedes he mishandled the public furor over his decision to dock the vessel in tax-free Rhode Island...
Belichick Wants Patriots To Focus On Present
Boston ChannelTy Warren was stunned when he saw the bare spots where pictures of former Patriots stars once hung. He and his teammates wondered what was going on.Just another motivational ploy by coach Bill Belichi...
Swindled Nuns Give Retirement Savings To School
Boston ChannelRoman Catholic nuns who were the alleged victims of a fundraising swindle have loaned their own retirement money to a school renovation project in Worcester. The Venerini Sisters went forward with the...
Man Killed When SUV Hits Building
Boston ChannelAuthorities said a man was killed and a child hurt when his SUV crashed into an American Legion building in Somersworth, N.H. Somersworth police told WMUR-TV the child, a 4-year-old girl, was in the b...
Man Denies Lobster Trap Feud Assault
Boston ChannelA 42-year-old Maine lobsterman has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of assaulting two other fishermen in a dispute over lobster traps. Toby Powell, of Friendship, is free on bail after appea...
Humor festival draws world’s cartoonists
Boston GlobeWILMINGTON Cartoonists from around the world are submitting works on the themes of freedom and Edward M. Kennedy, the late Massachusetts senator, for an international humor contest scheduled in Boston...
Judge raises bail for sex offender
Boston GlobeA registered sex offender awaiting trial on child pornography charges was ordered held on $25,000 cash bail yesterday, accused of repeatedly seeking out children in local parks in Chelsea and at neigh...
Mayor’s aide cleared in e-mail flap
Boston GlobeThe destruction of tens of thousands of e-mails by a top aide at Boston City Hall was not a criminal offense because it was not a willful attempt to hide the correspondence from the public, the attorn...
Nuns tap their future to right the past
Boston GlobeA small group of Worcester nuns has decided to empty its retirement savings accounts to pay contractors for a $3 million school renovation project, after the nuns were allegedly tricked by a professio...
Patrick, in shift, offers a slots deal
Boston GlobeIn a significant shift in his public position, Governor Deval Patrick said yesterday that he would accept creation of one slot parlor as part of the expanded gambling bill, if legislators agreed to br...
Suffolk jail is faulted in death of detainee
Boston GlobeMedical staff at the Suffolk County jail waited too long in October to send a feverish and trembling immigrant detainee to the hospital, allowing a deadly bacterial infection to overtake his body and ...
Sharks draw tourists to Cape Cod town
Boston GlobeDrawn by several recent shark sightings off the town’s coast, including three 10- to 16-foot great whites spotted Wednesday and a 12-footer tagged Tuesday, vacationers are flocking to Chatham, t...
Deaf, blind promised a better film experience
Boston GlobeNow, however, Pearson and thousands of other blind and deaf residents of Massachusetts will have more opportunity to experience movies independently, in a way closer to that enjoyed by those without d...
A Greenway urban code broken
Boston GlobeIn the annals of Boston crime, this theft will never rank with the famed Brinks robbery or the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. But somehow it is almost as disturbing: Over t...
Teachers warned of possible shake-up
Boston GlobeThe Boston Teachers Union has alerted teachers at five underperforming schools that Superintendent Carol R. Johnson intends to ask them to reapply for their jobs, setting off a wave of anxiety among t...
YMCA to train staff on nursing
Boston GlobeThe Greater Boston YMCA will train its 1,500 employees in Eastern Massachusetts on a state law protecting mothers’ right to breast-feed in public, after an employee at its Woburn facility told a...
Bill Clinton brings star power to Lynch party
Boston GlobeJust two days before his daughter’s much-ballyhooed wedding in upstate New York, Clinton attracted a boisterous crowd yesterday afternoon when he headlined a fund-raiser and rally for US Represe...
Lynn house razed by fire, no one hurt
Boston GlobeThe blaze at 540 Summer St. was reported at about 3 p.m. There was heavy fire in the rear of the building when firefighters arrived, said Deputy Fire Chief Jim McDonald.
Vermont welcomes selection as possible home of fighter jets
Boston GlobeMONTPELIER — Vermont’s selection as one of the possible bases for a new generation of military fighter jet was welcomed by the state’s top military official, but local residents rema...
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