Police continue to investigate the death of a teen who was shot and killed at a large Northborough, Massachusetts, house party over the weekend.
Ygor Correia, 16, of Bellingham, was shot during a large party at a home on Howard Street early Sunday …
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Worker injured after falling into hole at construction site in Concord, Mass.
A worker was injured after falling into a hole at a home that is being demolished in Concord, Massachusetts, on Tuesday morning.
Concord fire officials said they received a call around 11:20 a.m. Tuesday to an address on Bruce Road for a report of …
2nd woman busted with large amount of marijuana before Boston-UK flight, DA says
For the second time in two months, a woman was arrested with about 70 lbs. of marijuana at Boston’s Logan International Airport before a flight to the United Kingdom, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Fareedat Folunsho, a 19-year-old from London, was arrested Sunday night as she was attempting to fly back to the nation, according to the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office. Customs and Border Patrol agents had seized the marijuana before the flight.
In a Boston court, Folunsho was ordered held on $1,500 bail on a drug trafficking charge. She’s due back in court May 21; it wasn’t immediately clear if she had an attorney who could speak to the charges.
Prosecutors said the marijuana she was carrying would have a street value in the U.K. of about $350,000. Massachusetts law allows people over 21 to have up to 10 ounces of marijuana in their homes, but only to carry up to an ounce in public.
Folunsho’s arrest comes several weeks after 28-year-old Nalexus Palmer was arrested at Logan airport, allegedly with 74 lbs. of vacuum-sealed marijuana bags in two suitcases. She was ordered held on $3,000 bail and was due back in court May 24.
Here’s why you may see smoky skies in New England
Spring brings us usually those April showers into those May flowers. Unfortunately, it also brings us into wildfire season in New England.
Thankfully, we have had a pretty rainy spring but still, a low risk for wildfires will continue in northern New England at this time.
Generally, around until the leaves fill in on the trees and the underbrush grows back, and the dead brush from the winter decomposes more.
Controlled burns
Are you smelling smoke now? There may be a brush fire nearby — most likely, though, it is a prescribed burn.
Prescribed burns are happening across southern New England at this time. In fact, a couple of them show up on our Smoke and Fire tracker map (Rhode Island and in southeastern Massachusetts).
One of interest is from the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife across the southeast Pine Barrens Wildlife Management Area. The goal, according to the Plymouth Fire Department, is for “ecological management to restore a pitch pine and oak barren community, improve wildlife habitat, and reduce hazardous fuels.”
The benefits of these burns are to make room for new growth, shift soil nutrition, reduce invasive bugs or pests, and reduce the risk of a wildfire that may get quickly out of control.
This controlled burn in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, started Monday and may last through Wednesday. In fact, our smoke forecast shows that the sky will be smoke-filled across Plymouth, to the upper Cape and the South Shore as we get a south wind to move the smoke in that direction.
Canada wildfires
There are almost 100 wildfires burning in British Columbia and Alberta Provinces with activity expected to increase.
The smoke from those fires has created poor air quality over Minnesota and neighboring states early this week.
Remember last June when we had that widespread thick smoke in the sky, hazy sunrises and sets and poor air quality for New England? That is a possibility again.
Hopefully, that isn’t the case this year, but we will keep you posted.
Delays expected after overheight tractor-trailer gets stuck in Boston’s Sumner Tunnel
Traffic delays are being reported after an overheight tractor-trailer got stuck in the Sumner Tunnel on Tuesday morning.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation said in a social media post shortly after 11 a.m. that the left lane is closed.
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Harvard students end protest as university agrees to discuss Middle East conflict
Protesters against the war between Israel and Hamas were voluntarily taking down their tents in Harvard Yard on Tuesday after university officials agreed to discuss their questions about the endowment, bringing a peaceful end to the kinds of demonstra…
