The T reports riders on the 8:05 a.m. Greenbush train out of South Station is now 50 to 60 minutes late due to a little engine that couldn't near Weymouth Landing.

Duxbury Police report kids from across the South Shore were having a grand time celebrating the start of the new year at a bash on Federal Eagle Road last night when officers arrived to bust up the party. Read more.

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.

In hindsight, Ahmed Serageldin of Sharon agrees, it was a rather big mistake to mark 31,000 pages of top-secret information on advanced military radar systems as unclassified so he could take them home from his engineering job at Raytheon in Waltham. Read more.

The Cape Cod Times reports on an allegedly charming fellow who reacted to being asked to put a mask on in a Plymouth restaurant by deliberately coughing on two patrons and telling them he hoped they just got coronavirus. Police caught up with him and now he's facing charges of two counts each of assault, threatening to commit murder and threatening to bomb or hijack and single counts of negligent driving and disturbing the peace as a subsequent offense.

The owner of a Plymouth store that sells "healthy" smoothies and food is making a federal case out of the state's Covid-19 face-covering requirements, charging that the number of people who have died from is really pretty minor when you think about it, hardly worth an "emergency" declaration, especially since most of the fatalities are among old people in nursing homes, and that the order violates numerous Constitutional rights. Read more.

Sharon Police report no injuries when a motorist turned a South Main Street barber shop into a drive-thru this morning.

The Trustees of Reservations announced this morning they're reopening several more of their properties, including the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Crane Beach in Ipswich and World's End in Hingham, on May 19. Read more.

Local Trader Joe's remain open, but stores are limiting how many people they'll let in at a time - as one person exits, another one from the line outside is let in.

At the Hingham store this morning, the manager got on a bullhorn to alert shoppers to a two-per-thing limit, except on produce, which he pleaded with them to buy, as Geminiluvin shows: Read more.