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By adamg - 1/3/15 - 5:47 pm
Stuck truck in Westboro

The Westboro Fire Department reminds us Storrowing's not just a game Bostonians can play.

H/t Rick.

By adamg - 12/2/14 - 11:11 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today a man cannot be charged with selling marijuana within 100 feet of a "public park or playground" because the playground in question was on privately owned land.

The ruling means that Christopher Gopaul will now only face 13 drug charges instead of 14 when he comes to trial for allegedly selling pot to an undercover cop at the the Windsor Meadows Apartment Complex in Marlborough in 2011.

Prosecutors had argued that word "public" in the phrase applied only to the word "park," and so it shouldn't matter if the playground was on private land or not, but the court disagreed:

By Anonymous - 10/29/14 - 4:44 am

This is a breaking story. Updates will be posted in the comments.

By Anonymous - 10/29/14 - 4:44 am
By adamg - 10/3/14 - 11:42 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today overturned the OUI and motor-vehicle convictions of a Pittsfield man because the state trooper who testified that possible software problems with his car's steering system could not have made him swerve into the path of another car didn't have the expertise to make that determination.

By adamg - 9/24/14 - 8:13 am

Runner's World introduces us to a Bellingham High cross-country runner whose last name is Strong and whose first name is Boston. His father, a big Celtics fan, initially wanted to name him Larry Bird Strong, but his mother refused and suggested Boston instead.

Via Boston Reddit.

By Stop Litter---Yes On 2 in 2014... - 9/20/14 - 7:20 pm

We need to stop litter and keep Massachusetts clean by spreading the word about the Yes on Question 2 campaign.

The Bottle Bill is the most effective recycling tool we have. Eighty percent of bottles covered by the Bottle Bill’s 5-cent deposit are recycled. Yes on Question 2 would add a bottle deposit to water, sports drinks, tea, juices, and other drinks that were not included in the original bill because they were not popular when the law was passed in 1982.

We need your vote on November 4 to update the Bottle Bill.

By adamg - 9/2/14 - 7:48 pm
Fake license plate

State Police report a woman out west wasn't going to let his lack of a license plate stop her from hitting the road. Seems the state wouldn't give her one on account of his license and registration being revoked. Now she faces new charges.

By adamg - 9/2/14 - 4:29 pm

Playboy interviews the people pulling a Black Thursday outside LA's first Dunk's. No surprise: They all seem to be from the part of America that really does run on Dunkin:

Greg and Arielle even held Johnny’s place when he had to go to the bathroom. The trip was inevitable, considering Hoops had been in line for almost 24 hours. But where did he venture when nature called?

“Shhhh, don’t tell anybody,” Johnny replied. “But we go to the Starbucks a block away.”

By Anonymous - 8/3/14 - 12:51 pm

Raw Story:
Stephen Perrotti, a 26 year-old Lawrence, MA man with ‘mindset of genius’ threatens to kill President Obama ‘even if it takes a lifetime.’

CBS Boston:
Secret Service agents and police officers found an AR-15 assault rifle, three scopes and four high-capacity magazines and ammunition at his Lawrence home.

By adamg - 7/8/14 - 11:16 am
Twisting clouds over Bolton, Mass.

Such as this twisting cloud that Rich Beaubien photographed over Bolton? Don't worry: The National Weather Service says:

A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE TODAY. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE STRONG WIND GUSTS WITH A SECONDARY CONCERN FOR HAIL.

By adamg - 6/21/14 - 12:08 am

A federal appeals court yesterday upheld Worcester regulations to ban "aggressive" panhandling, saying the city was not trying to squelch anybody's free speech but rather protect the public from panhandlers getting up in the grills of motorists and pedestrians.

Boston has similar regulations against in-your-face solicitation.

By adamg - 4/7/14 - 4:59 pm
Ronald McDonald of Worcester

You may have seen the recent Taco Bell ad in which a bunch of guys named Ronald McDonald swear their undying allegiance to some new taco/egg/hash-brown wrap thing (we haven't paid that much attention since there may only be one Taco Bell left in the whole city of Boston and, well, we've got much better taco options down here in the Parkway region).

In any case, alert viewer Stuart Goldman noticed that one of the Ronald McDonalds is from Worcester, which is all well and good except a) Where is there a farm in Worcester? And b) Where are there mountains in Worcester?

By adamg - 3/14/14 - 10:06 pm

Specifically, the Mendon Twin Drive-In:

They are interested in the preservation of the drive-in as well as expanding new horizons in keeping with a joyous outdoor family environment.

Via Marc Hurwitz.

By adamg - 12/1/13 - 9:33 am
Crash on 290 in Worcester

Just the tail end of the crash. Photo by Mass. State Police.

Take a look at this video of the aftermath of a multiple-vehicle crash on I-290 in Worcester around 7:00 a.m.

State Police shut the Lowell Connector entirely due to ice.

Wellesley Police are also reporting a number of crashes.

By adamg - 11/19/13 - 10:07 pm

The MetroWest Daily News reports on today's referendum. So that leaves, what, Everett and maybe Revere for eastern Mass.?

By adamg - 11/7/13 - 8:34 pm
Winged sunset

Richard Beaubien watched the birds go up as the sun went down over Bolton a couple days ago.

Copyright Richard Beaubien. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

By adamg - 8/29/13 - 9:34 am

Preying mantis on his leg

Roving UHub photographer Will Kilburn reports:

By adamg - 8/7/13 - 9:05 am

The owner of a Westboro self-storage place is charged with trying to seal a Verizon worker in an underground utility vault in a fit of anger over the way the worker parked on his grass, the Worcester Telegram reports.

Police say the business owner also stole the worker's keys out of his truck.

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