Couple with gun and Belaire champagne, from FBI affidavit.
Drug and gun charges announced Wednesday against a Malden couple may be only the start of a federal crackdown on what investigators say is an increasingly violent drug-fueled gang war north of Boston in which gangs have been acquiring machine guns to spray rivals and rival turf with bullets. Read more.
The MBTA announced last week that it's just not going to run any trains at all between Oak Grove and Sullivan Square as it fixes the aging switch that caused yesterday's derailment at Wellington and does other track work there for the next three weeks. And it's pulling all of the new Chinese-by-way-of-Springfield trains on the Orange and Red Lines - like the one that came off the tracks as it tries to figure out what happened.
Federal prosecutors in Washington today added a new charge against Capitol stroller Mark Sahady of Malden, which carries a potential prison sentence of a year and which would mean, if he's convicted, he could never legally own a gun. Read more.
A Pittsfield lawyer who represented Capitol putsch stroller Mark Sahady of Malden in his initial appearances in federal court is now asking a judge to "disappear" him from the case. Read more.
A Malden man was arrested this morning after he allegedly made a $1,500 down payment for his wife's death - to a "contract killer" who was actually an undercover FBI agent, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
A federal judge today released Mark Sahady of Malden on personal recognizance while he goes through court proceedings related to the failed putsch in Washington earlier this month - subject to several conditions, including that his mother, with whom he lives, has to give up her licensed gun pending the conclusion of his case. Read more.
A federal judge in Boston today ordered Mark Sahady of Malden ordered held without bail until at least Thursday, for his presence in the Capitol during the failed putsch on Jan. 6. Read more.
When the MetroWest Daily News interviewed Sue Ianni after she returned from Washington the other day, she declined to say whether she had actually marched on the Capitol, let alone took part in a would-be putsch that left five people dead. Read more.
Update: One UMass employee no longer has a job.
UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester tweeted this morning: Read more.
Operation Ryan came across a peeled back trailer this morning at the Orange Line bridge over Medford Street in Malden.
The challenges faced by the Boston housing market have been well documented in 2020. The pandemic has caused massive shifts in urban population distribution in metropolitan areas all across the country, and Boston is no exception. It effectively took one of the nation’s hottest real estate markets and caused it to come to a grinding halt as apartment vacancies soar all over the city.
The Malden Lions Club is collecting pre-paid gift cards for distribution in the small Washington-state city of Malden, much of which was destroyed by a wildfire: Read more.
Matt Frank watched the late-afternoon storm band move over Malden and Everett. Read more.
WHDH reports (scroll down the page a bit) that police in Malden had to break up a big birthday party - in the parking lot of a local bowling alley - that City Council President Jadeane Sica-Bernbaum threw for her daughter on turning 21. The station quotes her as saying she really does get this pandemic stuff, you know, like not having gatherings of more than ten people, but dammit, she's a mother, too.
A California chain of Asian supermarkets that recently opened an outlet in Quincy is suing a similarly named Asian supermarket in Malden for trademark infringement. Read more.
Not that they have any particular reason to. No cases; no suspected cases; nobody arriving from places with cases. Read more.
Cambridge Police report that the three teens who were arrested on charges they stole a pair of Lamborghini SUVs in Wayland and crashed the $225,000 vehicles in Malden on Tuesday are now charged with stabbing a man on Hingham Street in Cambridge Monday night after he saw them jumping on cars and told them to stop. Read more.
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