Woburn
Police officer shot in Woburn jewelry-store robbery
By adamg - 9/6/11 - 11:10 amAlertNewEngland and Stephen Walsh report on the manhunt for the suspects - one of whom may have gotten shot himself - in the botched robbery and shooting at 186 Cambridge Rd.
Last Dec. 26, another Woburn officer was shot and killed after a robbery at the jewelry department at Kohl's on Washington Street.
The Parole Board's decision to release the guy charged with murdering a Woburn cop
By adamg - 12/30/10 - 1:57 pmMuckRock posts a copy of the 2008 decision to release Dominic Cinelli, at the time serving three life sentences for a variety of violent robberies in Boston and in Middlesex County.
The Globe reported today the Parole Board never notified the Middlesex County District Attorney's office of the hearing; three years earlier, the DA's office had strongly urged the board to keep Cinelli locked up, which it did at that time.
Woburn officer shot and killed in gunfire exchange with robbery suspect
By adamg - 12/26/10 - 8:57 pmUPDATE: The officer has died; second suspect in custody.
According to Engine Company 3, a man who robbed the jewelry counter at Kohl's on Washington Street tonight exchanged fire with Woburn Police. An officer was hit, the suspect was also shot. Woburn Patch reports the suspect is in custody. State Police are now searching the area around the intersection of routes 93 and 128 for additional possible suspects.
Y workers get a little training after nursing mother told to knock it off because she was breaking Y policy against food
By adamg - 7/30/10 - 8:44 pmChannel 4 reports on an incident at the North Suburban Y in Woburn involving a mother ordered to stop feeding her infant. In response, the Y will train hundreds of workers on the state law that says mothers have the right to nurse their babies wherever they're lawfully allowed to be - such as inside a YMCA.
Company claims it will deliver flying cars at the end of 2011
By adamg - 6/29/10 - 2:29 pm
Flying car and some boring old thing up in the air
The Register reports Woburn's Terafugia has cleared another hurdle in its march toward fulfilling the future we were promised decades ago: The FAA has given it a waiver to make its flying cars heavier than normal for "light sport" aircraft, which don't have as onerous requirements for a license as bigger planes. The company claims it will be selling the things by the third quarter of next year.
Now about our jetpacks ...
Via BostInnovation.com.
Bank robber runs on Dunkin'
By adamg - 5/17/10 - 1:31 pmWoburn Police are looking for a guy who apparently made a pit stop at a Dunkin' Donuts before robbing a nearby bank.
Police say the guy wrote out his demand note - for $100 bills - on a Dunkin' Donuts napkin before holding up the TD Bank branch at 280 Montvale Ave. around 10:50 a.m. on May 12. They say he may have been in the Dunkin' Donuts down Montvale before the robbery.
He's described as white, 5'6", mid-20s, with unshaved, sunken cheeks and wearing a white hoodie with a black vest over it and latex gloves. May have made his escape on commuter rail in a silver Malibu.
Police behaving thuggishly: DA to look at possible charges against three non-detail cops
By adamg - 10/15/08 - 3:41 pmThe Globe reports Woburn officials have given the Middlesex County DA's office evidence with which to bring possible charges against three out-of-town cops for their behavior at a protest against non-police flaggers last week.
Cop drives wrong way to protest civilian flaggers
By adamg - 10/7/08 - 11:58 amNECN reports on actual civilian flaggers flagging traffic across the state today - complete with footage of cop in Woburn showing his disregard for the motor-vehicle laws he's supposed to enforce when he's on the job:
Wow, these vitamins taste just like candy
By adamg - 5/7/08 - 12:19 pmSo how do you react when you think your Flintstones chewable vitamins have been tampered with? Of course! You do the same exact thing. What could be more natural?
Weird: Boston owns 200 acres of parkland in Burlington and Woburn
By adamg - 12/15/07 - 9:08 pmBack in 1930, somebody gave Boston 200 acres of land in the two suburbs on the condition the city maintain it forever as "a public pleasure ground."
Only now Boston seems to want to sell off the land either as a subdivision or a golf course, according to Friends of the Cummings Park, which notes the city took $141,000 out of the park trust fund last year to pay a subdivision surveyor and $13,000 for legal fees this year - while spending absolutely nothing to maintain the land as a park.
Patrick O'Reilly: Mayor Menino, Please don't sell our park!
