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By Michele McPhee I love fall in New England. There is no better time of year then fall. We have haunted houses galore — like the Witch’s Woods at the Nashoba Valley Ski Resort, which I visited this past weekend. Screeching at the creepy clowns and the blood-streaked ghouls in Westford on Saturday night...
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A year ago, many of us heard Secretary of Transportation Cohen at the public hearing on the Detail/Flagger issue, state that no matter what testimony was presented, there would be flaggers, because there would be a substantial monetary savings to the state. No matter what testimony was presented? Why let the truth get in...
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Officials rescue Tobin jumper By O’Ryan Johnson and Stuart Cahill Wednesday, September 16, 2009 Photo by Stuart Cahill Boston firefighters and the state police made a dramatic, high-altitude rescue last night when an apparently suicidal man jumped from the Tobin Bridge. The man, whose name was not released, leapt from the upper deck of...
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Man who posed for painter makes stop at Delaware police museum By J.L. MILLER • The News Journal • September 12, 2009 DOVER — You probably wouldn’t recognize Richard J. Clemens’ face, but if he turns his back to you — as he did to a group of state troopers Friday — you just...
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Berkshire Eagle Staff Updated: 09/10/2009 08:38:41 AM EDT Thursday, Sept. 10 LEE — A Great Barrington man with two pending criminal cases had his bail revoked Wednesday after he was charged with driving while intoxicated Tuesday night. According to officials at the Massachusetts State Police barracks in Lee, Bobby Hall was behind the wheel of...
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Link to Boston Globe Article The State Police union has urged Governor Deval Patrick to order an independent audit of the agency to investigate its complaint that the force is top heavy, with too many highly paid superior officers and not enough troopers… …“If there is any waste at the top with overstaffing of...
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Troopers Robert Church and John Nickles of SP Springfield conduct a traffic stop in Chicopee, eventually resulting in the arrest of a fugitive from justice out of Maine.  (photo)
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by The Republican Newsroom Sunday September 06, 2009, 11:22 PM WHATELY – A 23-year-old Brattleboro, Vt., man was arrested on charges of distributing marijuana after a state trooper found between 10 and 12 pounds of the drug stuffed in trash bags in his car. Samual D. Schwartzkopf was initially pulled over at 6 p.m.,...
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IN THE BOOK H-TROOP By Sgt. Bob Leverone A late night traffic stop by Tpr. John McDonald, working out of SP Milton, proved once again that those who can least afford to be stopped often do something dumb. Tpr. McDonald was running radar on Rte. 24 in Avon when he stopped a Dodge Ram...
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by Mike O’Neil November, 2008 This month’s edition kicks off with one of several calls for service to the State Police by some of the local RMV branches. Trooper Dave Podworski was sent to the local branch for a report of a disorderly person causing a scene. Upon Tpr Podworski’s arrival, he identified the...
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