North Shore

Peabody mourns firefighter, helps residents burned out of homes

adamg — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:07:09 +0000

The Globe reports.

State trooper charged with 'unnatural acts' with a hooker in Lynn, Lynn, city of sin

adamg — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:07:55 +0000

State Police report the arrest of one of their own on charges he paid a woman for sex - and then tried to drive away from local police in his state-issued undercover vehicle when they found the pair in intimate contact.

Stop feeding the goddamn ducks, Lynn tells stubborn old coot

adamg — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:16:11 +0000

The Daily Item reports the 80-year-old duck feeder refuses to stop, no matter how large the bill, she says God is on her side.

Woman charged with numerous attempted car break-ins at Lynn train station

adamg — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:58:27 +0000

An MBTA Transit Police officer assigned to patrol the Lynn parking garage due to multiple break-ins in recent days may have hit the jackpot yesterday morning: A woman he allegedly found attaching a stolen plate to one car, with evidence she had tried to break into several other cars nearby.

Alexis Downez, 32, was charged with five counts of attempted breaking and entering in the daytime, five count of malicious destruction of property, possession of burglarious tools, stealing a license plate and driving after suspension. Her arrest came after three days of car break-ins, thefts and vandalism at the garage, police say.

Saugus Police arrest State Police captain, who faces criminal, internal-affairs investigations

adamg — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:56:34 +0000

A State Police captain will likely be suspended today over a Saturday incident in which he allegedly refused to stop for Saugus Police investigating an activated residential burglar alarm, State Police say, adding he may have been drunk at the time.

Thomas McCarthy, 47, had his cruiser and gun seized pending a hearing today on his duty status, State Police say in a statement. McCarthy was commander of Troop C, which covers central Massachusetts.

Two more people indicted in commuter-rail pass scheme

adamg — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:38:06 +0000

The Salem News has the details in the latest indictments centered on an employee of a company that prints CharlieTickets, who allegedly sold bogus passes over the Internet.

Merry Halloween!

adamg — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:09:46 +0000

A.P. Blake photographed his family's snowy pumpkinhead in Saugus today.

Witches, zombies in Salem turf war

adamg — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:53:23 +0000

The Salem News reports: Witches accused of zombie abuse.

Police expressed some frustration with the situation and an off-the-record longing for November.

Sounds like a job for Vimes of the City Watch.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle, stage adaptation of classic Boston crime novel, opens Dec. 8 at Oberon

Eddie Coyle — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:25:39 +0000

Cambridge, Mass. — Tickets are on sale now for George V. Higgins’ The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Stickball Productions’ world premiere stage adaptation of the quintessential Boston crime novel. The production runs Dec. 8–Jan. 15 at Oberon in Harvard Square, for tickets, visit www.thefriendsofeddiecoyle.com

It is the winter of ‘69 in Boston and Eddie Coyle is a bottom of the barrel hood attempting to stay alive and out of jail among his “friends” – cops, bartenders, radical hippies, bank robbers, hit men and informants. Weeks away from a prison sentence for trucking stolen booze, Eddie’s making a few bucks supplying the guns for a rash of brazen bank heists, while looking to tip someone in for a kind word to the judge.

George V. Higgins’ classic novel has been called the “best crime novel ever written” by Elmore Leonard, and literary scholars have compared his unforgiving and realistic depiction of Boston’s underworld with the works of Dickens, Dostoevsky, and Balzac. Through dialogue quintessentially Bostonian, and the most poignant homage to Bobby Orr and the ’69-’70 Boston Bruins in literature, The Friends of Eddie Coyle has set the bar for Boston crime stories for nearly 40 years.

The lady at the door

adamg — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:12:05 +0000

Liz Polay-Wetengel reports:

Our doorbell rang. It was a woman I didn't recognize. She handed me my husband's wallet and said she found it on the MBTA train. I love her.

I was so stunned that I just thanked her over and over. I should have given her a bottle of wine or something!

Court upholds fees for appealing traffic tickets

adamg — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:54:47 +0000

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today there is nothing unconstitutional about requiring people to pay a fee to appeal a traffic ticket.

Ralph Sullivan, who wanted to get back the $75 in fees he spent successfully appealing a traffic ticket from Salem, argued the fees violate the Constitution's right to equal protection because people appealing tickets for smoking or carrying marijuana are not levied fees.

But the state's highest court ruled that traffic appeals are not the same as smoking or pot appeals, so that principle does not apply. People contesting traffic tickets can subpoena witnesses, ask for a hearing before a judge or clerk-magistrate and can appeal their verdicts to another judge, while people appealing other types of tickets can do none of that, the court said.

Court: Guy may be a disgusting perv, but that doesn't mean he's dangerous

adamg — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:13:42 +0000

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today authorities can't keep a serial North Shore exhibitionist locked up past the end of his sentence because there's no proof his behaviors trend toward the "sexually dangerous."

Anybody lose a sailboat?

adamg — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:38:09 +0000

Tim Mouradian photographed a lost sailboat in Swampscott today.

Copyright Tim Mouradian. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

These are the people reporters warned us about

adamg — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:30:30 +0000

The reporters standing on the water side of the sea walls, that is:

Charles Palleschi took this photo by Lynn Beach near the Swampscott line today.

Lynn Beach video.

Highway nightmares

adamg — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:00:30 +0000

Backhoe falls off trailer, kills woman on 495.

Wood and debris hit Haverhill man on I-95 South:

Tom O'Brien, of Haverhill, was on his way to work in Wakefield, when a giant piece of wood came crashing through his windshield.