Julia Spitz checks in from the best suburban daily newspaper I ever worked at (OK, the only one, but still), out there in Framingham:

... In recent days we've had a bumper crop of drunks, drug users, shoplifters and brawlers. There was the deadbeat dad from Hopkinton, brought back from Canada, who allegedly owes $500,000 in back child support, and let's not forget the Brazilian woman accused of lighting her boyfriend on fire in Framingham.

And then there are the stories that never seem to change. Today we have a Hudson resident facing his SEVENTH drunken driving charge. ...