Boston Herald: Cops pushed around on move-over law.
“It’s not taken seriously by the courts and maybe it’s not being respected by the public and it’s my troopers and emergency workers who are at risk,” – Rick Brown, president of the State Police Association of Massachusetts.
More than 1,600 Bay State motorists cited for breaking [...]
At approximately 1:30 am this morning Sergeant Douglas A. Weddleton assigned to State Police Foxboro was struck and killed by a vehicle while outside his cruiser during a stop of a suspected impaired driver on Rt. 95 North in Mansfield.
Sergeant Weddleton, 52 of Brockton, is a member of the 65th R.T.T. who began his career [...]
Civilian flaggers cost state more cash: Mass. to pay $54/hour for Route 128 workers
By Bruno Matarazzo Jr. and Alan Burke
Staff Writers
http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_081183507.html
DANVERS — When the state changed the law to let civilian flaggers work traffic details, it was expected to save money.
It’s hard to see where there will be savings, however, on the three-year project to [...]
Photo: State Police Association of Massachusetts
Copy By: Elizabeth Roman / Masslive
January 31, 2010, 5:14PM
Troopers Jonathan Nugent and Matthew Simpson secure an infant in a warm cruiser after it was removed from a car involved in a late night vehicle pursuit. (Photo by the State Police Association of Massachusetts)
HOLYOKE – Two Hartford men were arrested [...]
By The Associated Press
January 14, 2010, 2:15PM
WORCESTER – The first woman to command the Massachusetts State Police has been sworn into office.
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http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/col_marian_mcgovern_sworn_in_a.html
I applaud Trooper Louis Torname…
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/letters/view.bg?articleid=1225490
By Associated Press
Monday, January 11, 2010
SPAM CONTINUES ITS LONGSTANDING SUPPORT FOR STATE SENATOR SCOTT BROWN IN ENDORSING HIM FOR UNITED STATES SENATE
BOSTON — Martha Coakley may be the state’s attorney general, but her Senate rival is vying to match her law-and-order credentials.
Republican Scott Brown was scheduled Monday to receive the endorsement of the [...]
SPAM CONTINUES ITS LONGSTANDING SUPPORT FOR STATE SENATOR SCOTT BROWN IN ENDORSING HIM FOR UNITED STATES SENATE
December 16, 2009
The Executive Board of the State Police Association of Massachusetts voted yesterday to continue our support for Scott Brown and endorse his bid for United States Senate. Senator Brown has been a strong supporter of [...]
…The governor has appointed the first woman superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police, picking a veteran officer with more than 30 years on the [...]
Parole Commission denies convicted terrorist permission to travel out of Maine
The United States Parole Commission has denied convicted serial bomber and domestic terrorist Raymond Levasseur permission to travel to Massachusetts to make an appearance at a controversial and ill-planned event at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Levasseur served 18 years, less than half of a [...]