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Mass. beach remains closed to swimming after great white shark sightings
A popular beach on the North Shore of Massachusetts remained closed Wednesday — and will for several more days — after multiple great white shark sightings on Tuesday. Swimmers were ordered out of the water Tuesday morning when a great white shark sighting was confirmed off the east end of Crane Beach. Ipswich police said sharks were seen in approximately…
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Feds ‘aware of' NH Libertarian Party's post glorifying killing of VP Harris
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Hampshire and the Secret Service are both aware of a post on social media made by the state’s Libertarian Party that praised as “an American hero” anyone who were to assassinate Vice President Kamala Harris.
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New details on Mass. State Police trainee dead after training exercise
Massachusetts State Police trainee Enrique Delgado-Garcia was sworn in as a trooper shortly before his death, a department spokesman said, some of the new information shared on Delgado-Garcia’s death Saturday. Police have not shared more about the training exercise they’ve said that Delgado-Garcia was seriously injured as a part of. Delgado-Garcia’s family has questioned how the 25-year-old could have...
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After Dorchester shootings, Boston city councilor calls for more police patrols
Boston City Council Vice President Brian Worrell is calling for increased police patrols in Dorchester and Mattapan, according to leaked letters obtained by NBC10 Boston, after recent gun violence traumatized people in his district. Two men were shot in broad daylight at a barbershop in Dorchester on Labor Day and another man was killed on the same street the week…
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Dad of girl killed by truck in Andover suffers his own close call, continues push for safer streets
The first thought Eric Olson had after getting hit by a truck while cycling in Andover, Massachusetts, last week was of his late 5-year-old daughter, Sidney. Olson was riding his bike down Woburn Street when a Ford F150 hit his back tire and sent him into a driveway across the street. He said he sprained his wrists and suffered contusions,…
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Advocate says Sandra Birchmore's family ‘always thought that she was murdered'
The federal indictment of a former Massachusetts police detective in the 2021 death of Sandra Birchmore — previously ruled a suicide — is an emotional development for family members and advocates. Matthew Farwell, who was a detective with the Stoughton Police Department, is accused of killing Birchmore and staging her apartment to make it appear she had died by suicide….
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A timeline of the Shelby Hewitt case
Shelby Hewitt, the 32-year-old woman accused of pretending to be a Boston Public Schools student, is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday for a lobby conference. Court documents show that between 2021 and 2023, Hewitt posed as student as young as 13 while working as a social worker for the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families. Here’s a closer look at…
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New court date set for Shelby Hewitt, woman accused of posing as teenage Boston student
A brief hearing was held Wednesday morning in the case of a 32-year-old woman accused of pretending to be a Boston Public Schools student. Shelby Hewitt has pleaded not guilty to several crimes, including forgery, identity fraud and making false claims to her employer. A hearing was held in Suffolk Superior Court on Wednesday morning, but Hewitt did not appear,…
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Man faces judge after crash of stolen SUV in Plainville kills 10-year-old
A man accused of stealing an SUV from a Kenny Chesney concert at Gillette Stadium and causing a crash that killed a 10-year-old boy over the weekend in Plainville, Massachusetts, appeared in court Monday. The incident occurred Saturday at the intersection of Route 1 and Interstate 495, according to Massachusetts State Police, who said 42-year-old Michael Escolas of Oxford was…
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Child dead in crash after suspect stole SUV from Kenny Chesney concert: police
An SUV stolen from a Kenny Chesney concert at Gillette Stadium rear-ended a car in Plainville, Massachusetts, killing a 10-year-old child and injuring five other members of their family Saturday night, police said.