BILLERICA — Tragedy rocked the Billerica Police Department on Friday when Sgt. Ian Taylor, a member of the department since 2011, suffered fatal injuries while working on a road construction site on Boston Road.
Crime and Public Safety
Healey weighs in on campus safety, protests
BOSTON — As tensions simmer around college campus protests and university responses, Gov. Maura Healey gave a mostly muted response Tuesday to the proliferation of pro-Palestinian encampments, saying “there has to be” space for both protest and Jewish student safety alike. Colleges around the country are grappling with how to respond to student demonstrations against […]
Truck hits behavioral health facility in Devens
DEVENS — Fire crews responded to a report of a truck crashing into a building at the TaraVista Behavioral Health Center in Devens and catching fire Wednesday morning. According to the Worcester County District Attorney’s office, the Devens Fire Department and assisting mutual aid departments extinguished the fire, which was first reported at 5:36 a.m. […]
Middlesex DA: Woman arraigned on 30 counts of animal cruelty
AYER — After police seized 162 animals on her property in February, a 77-year-old woman was arraigned on over two dozen counts of animal cruelty in Ayer District Court on Monday, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan. In collaboration with Ayer Police Chief Brian Gill and the MSPCA, Ryan’s office confirmed that Ruth Maxant-Schulz, […]
Official: Footage of bus driver shoving student ‘horrifying’
TOWNSEND — A school bus driver accused of shoving an eighth grade student to the floor of the bus during the ride home on Tuesday now faces a charge of assault and battery.
Sutton magician sentenced to federal prison for sexually exploiting Cambodian children
Scott Jameson, a Sutton children’s magician, will be disappearing into a federal prison for six and a half years for fondling children and making porn of them while traveling in Cambodia.
