Results tagged “marblehead”

• Budget Cut Redux: Gov. Deval Patrick plans to save the state's new film-industry tax credit while advocates for residents of Massachusetts with mental illnesses are concerned about cuts to social services. [Boston Herald]

• The father of the Boston special officer who shot and killed the man who stabbed the psychiatrist discussed his son with the media. [Boston Globe]

• The Somerville Journal accuses the Somerville News of plagiarism. It's MoDo/TPM all over again! [Somerville Journal]
• New traffic tools may help you avoid an awful weekend of driving this Memorial Day. [Commonwealth Conversations]
• An MGH employee left patient records on the T; now the hospital is being sued. [Globe]

--A man from Marblehead was arrested in connection with Wednesday's killing of 21-year-old Wesleyan University student Johanna Justin-Jinich. Stephen P. Morgan was taken into custody outside a convenience store in south Meriden without incident after asking a store clerk to call police. Morgan was reportedly targeting Jewish people. [WCVB]

me_ram, like many of us, is enjoying the warmer days this week and in his own words, "It's Spring time baby!" This shot was taken on a recent trip to Marblehead and does a good job freezing the power of the ocean. The blue/pink sky and green water are a nice change from the greys and whites of a New England winter.

-- Police charged three women with abducting a 24-year old man and leaving him to die in a burning apartment building early Sunday. Investigators discovered the man's plight when his brother, whom the women had allegedly attempted to extort, contacted police in Brighton. Farrah Girault, 29, of Roxbury, Cheerley Chevalier, 30, of Taunton and Jillian Jacques, 23, of Allston allegedly kidnapped the victim, bound him with a hair dryer, and beat him until he vomited blood. Things got worse when the women allegedly set fire to a 9-pack of toilet paper and a mattress and left the victim to die in Jacques's Allston apartment. The crime was described as drug-related. [Herald]