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By adamg - 9/6/23 - 8:28 pm
Remains of the vehicle

Remains of the vehicle. Photo by TPD.

Transit Police report that a woman in an MBTA Ride had to be hospitalized after a harrowing ride from Woburn to downtown Boston behind a guy who had jumped into the vehicle and sped off, around 3:30 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 4/7/23 - 4:15 pm

A Silver Spring, MD man was arrested on a federal extortion charge today after he allegedly threatened to release images from recordings he made on sex-for-pay visits with two men in eastern Massachusetts. Read more.

By adamg - 4/4/23 - 9:44 pm

For the second time in a month, the owners of Massachusetts restaurants have been charged with "forced labor" for the slave-like conditions they allegedly subjected their undocumented. restaurant workers to. Read more.

By adamg - 10/21/22 - 12:42 pm

Woburn Police Chief Robert Rufo and Mayor Scott Galvin say an investigation into a local cop's role in the 2017 Charlottesville Nazi tiki-torch rally that ended with a counter-protester dead has confirmed that the guy was, in fact, a Nazi. Read more.

By adamg - 10/17/22 - 6:09 pm

Woburn Police report that John Donnelly, suspended last week while officials looked into his role as an active organizer of the 2017 Charlottesville white-supremacy tiki parade and riot. "has resigned from his position as patrol officer and is no longer employed by the Woburn Police Department." Read more.

By perruptor - 10/15/22 - 7:04 am

Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan has announced that her office will review all cases involving suspended Woburn patrolman John Donnelly. Read more.

By adamg - 10/13/22 - 1:18 pm

John Donnelly, a Woburn cop, was put on paid administrative leave today as the city investigated his role in planning the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, VA that featured a march by white supremacists holding tiki lamps and the death of a counter-protester at the hands of one of the Nazis. Read more.

By adamg - 8/1/22 - 10:27 am

The State Library of Massachusetts posts a copy of an 1847 broadside ad for what we'd now call a subdivision in Woburn:

It boasts that the lots for sale are within a three-minute walk of the train depot, with trains to and from Boston stopping at the station 18 times per day, as well as nearby churches, good schools, and a thriving village. Who wouldn’t want to live near all of these amenities! The lots were good-sized, too, ranging from 6,000 to 15,000 feet and located near Wedge Pond.

By Neal - 4/22/22 - 8:43 pm

No, not that Big Dig, an earlier one one. This one, described by some as The Incredible Ditch was completed a long, long time ago. Of course you don't remember it, no one today does, so Burlington Retro's Rob Fahey fills us in on the history of the Middlesex Canal.

By adamg - 11/5/21 - 9:23 pm
Wood stork in Woburn

Wood storks are not normally found north of North Carolina, but this young one wound up at Horn Pond in Woburn yesterday. Read more.

By adamg - 1/1/21 - 8:36 pm

WCVB reports 44 people who attended one of four services at Genesis Community Church have tested positive for Covid-19 and that the church has now called off all in-person services for awhile.

By adamg - 11/20/19 - 8:55 am

WBZ reports the Woburn Red Robin had to be evacuated last night and three people taken to a local hospital as a precaution - about two weeks after the manager of the Burlington Buffalo Wild Wings died in a similar mishap.

By adamg - 9/2/19 - 11:29 am
Stacks of U-Haul trucks in Woburn

Maryr found one of the secret resting grounds of post-Allston Christmas rental trucks - a parking lot in Woburn. Fans of yellow trucks, meanwhile, know they can gaze to their heart's content at an entire fleet of them at the West Roxbury Home Depot.

By adamg - 2/17/19 - 12:09 am

MassLive.com reports Asa Cooper, 28, was arrested on several charges, including assault with intent to murder.

Innocent, etc.

By adamg - 6/26/18 - 2:01 pm

A Woburn woman charged with threatening people with a knife on an Orange Line after the Pride parade earlier this month will be held without bail for at least two months after her bail on an earlier charge was revoked, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 2/3/17 - 5:04 pm
Seized caps

Illegal caps.

An investigation started by Homeland Security culminated today in a raid at the Woburn headquarters of Chowdaheadz, which makes Boston-related sports clothing. Read more.

By adamg - 6/3/16 - 11:13 am

The Supreme Judicial Court today ordered a new trial for Oswalt Millien of Woburn, saying his original lawyer screwed up by not finding a medical witness to counter prosecution claims that the only way his six-month-old daughter got serious brain injuries in 2009 was by him shaking her violently.

Millien was convicted and sentenced to four to five years in prison.

It's not that Millien's lawyer didn't know of experts who could back up Millien's argument that the infant hit her head on the floor when she fell off a couch, but that Millien's father, who was paying him, couldn't afford the cost of hiring one. Read more.

By adamg - 10/1/15 - 12:03 pm
Cement truck overturned on 93

Chris Martin photographed the scene on I-93 southbound in the Woburn/Wilmington area shortly before noon.

By adamg - 6/12/14 - 4:06 pm

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly reports a law firm that grew fat and sassy helping banks foreclose on Massachusetts homeowners is being evicted from its Woburn offices:

Now the well-known foreclosure firm is facing eviction following several tumultuous months that saw forensic accountants investigating its books and the firm bouncing checks, failing to pay employee insurance premiums, and laying off the majority of its lawyers, paralegals and other staff en masse. Meanwhile, a Florida whistleblower lawsuit against the firm is scheduled to go to trial later this year.

By adamg - 4/30/14 - 8:10 am

The Dig reports City Councilor Josh Zakim has resurrected a so far failed effort by Boston to sell off a 218-acre park in Woburn a landowner deeded the city in 1930.

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