November 11, 2009 by John M. Guilfoil
Filed under Local News, Umass Amherst
The union representing the UMASS Amherst campus police announced Wednesday that officers who work overtime details required for security if/when Ray Luc Levasseur speaks on campus November 12 will donate all of their pay from that day to a memorial fund set up for a New Jersey state trooper killed in a wave of violence [...]
September 10, 2009 by Sachin Seth
Filed under Local News, The News
Police at Yale University have issued a missing person’s report on 24-year-old Pharmacology student Annie Le.
April 30, 2009 by John M. Guilfoil
Filed under Crime and Justice, Local News, The News
No, Boston is not in the grips of a mad scientist with anthrax. Nor is it under siege from a series of terrorist briefcase bombs.
It was pot, marijuana, Mary Jane, grass, weed and a whole lot of it that tied up half the emergency services in the city Thursday afternoon.
Mailroom workers at One Financial Center [...]
April 25, 2009 by Blast Magazine Newsroom
Filed under Crime and Justice, Local News, The News
More women are being attacked in the North End, in mirror images incidents that have been going on for the past several years.
On Friday around 9:30 p.m. a woman told police she was walking near Prince Street in Boston’s “Little Italy” when a man attacked her with a knife. She fended him off and was [...]
April 16, 2009 by John M. Guilfoil
Filed under Crime and Justice, Local News, The News
BOSTON — Norfolk County District Attorney WIlliam R. Keating’s office has ruled that the March 28 fatal police shooting of Kerby Revelus as he murdered two and wounded another of his sisters was justified.
“The evidence clearly indicates that the actions of Milton Police that day spared the life of this young [...]
December 3, 2008 by Blast Magazine Newsroom
Filed under Crime and Justice, Law, National News, The News
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, last April, when tornadoes were threatening Jackson, Mississippi, many residents were not alerted to the severe weather because five tornado warning sirens didn’t work. The reason: the sirens’ copper wiring had been stolen.
A month before that, 4,000 Polk County, Fla. residents were powerless when thieves ripped copper wire [...]
October 24, 2008 by John M. Guilfoil
Filed under Crime and Justice, National News, The News
How do you “just say no” when the cops are the drug dealers?


