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Man Conned 300 Mass Families To Pay For His Plastic Surgery, Vacations, Gambling: Feds Man Conned 300 Mass Families To Pay For His Plastic Surgery, Vacations, Gambling: Feds
Man Conned 300 Mass Families To Pay For His Plastic Surgery, Vacations, Gambling: Feds The only thing the kids who signed up for MB Sports Camps learned about baseball was how to steal — but not bases.  Mehdi Belhassan, 53, of Tampa, Fla., was convicted last week after a six-day trial of two counts of wire fraud, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. He was accused of stealing $380,000 from 303 families across the state and country and a $191,000 advance from an online payment company.  Belhassan ran the annual MB Sports Camps. In 2019, however, he collected parents' money like usual, but this time, ran away with it to pay for plastic surgery and "extravagant…

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by Josh Lanier
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Drunk Driver Smashes Into Mass State Police Cruiser, Injuring Trooper Drunk Driver Smashes Into Mass State Police Cruiser, Injuring Trooper
Drunk Driver Smashes Into Mass State Police Cruiser, Injuring Trooper A Massachusetts State Trooper is recovering after a drunk driver smashed into his cruiser that was stopped on the side of a major highway over the weekend, authorities said. The 35-year-old male Trooper was in the breakdown lane of I-93 north in Randolph when a 2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee rammed into the back of his cruiser around 7:18 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 6, Massachusetts State Police report.  This happened while the Trooper was conducting a traffic stop and waiting for an unregistered BMW to get towed. The force from the crash caused the cruiser to slam into the back of the BMW.  The ba…

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by David Cifarelli
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Massachusetts Has 2 Of the Top 20 Places To Live In America: Report Massachusetts Has 2 Of the Top 20 Places To Live In America: Report
Massachusetts Has 2 Of the Top 20 Places To Live In America: Report Massachusetts had two municipalities named to this year's best places to live in the US list. Money.com compiles the cities and towns that have "things that matter most to people: economic opportunities, quality of life, diversity, and where the best futures lie." Somerville ranked 7th on the annual list because of its low unemployment rate (2.8 percent), high median income (more than $104,000), and old-town aesthetics. But it also scored points for embracing the weirder aspects of its history with the What the Fluff? festival and Museum of Bad Art.  "(Somerville) claims some of t…

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by Josh Lanier
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Massachusetts Is Home To Seven Of The Best Small Cities In America, Website Says Massachusetts Is Home To Seven Of The Best Small Cities In America, Website Says
Massachusetts Is Home To Seven Of The Best Small Cities In America, Website Says Nearly half of the US population says they’d prefer to live in a suburban area, so the personal-finance website WalletHub conducted a research study about 2022’s Best Small Cities in America, which it released on Tuesday, Oct. 4.  To help Americans put down roots in places offering good quality of life and affordability, WalletHub compared more than 1,300 U.S. cities with populations between 25,000 and 100,000 across 43 key indicators of livability— which range from housing costs and school-system quality to restaurants per capita and the crime rate, but you can read more about that methodo…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Bullet In Bathroom Prompts Lockdown At Greater Boston Area School (UPDATE) Bullet In Bathroom Prompts Lockdown At Greater Boston Area School (UPDATE)
Bullet In Bathroom Prompts Lockdown At Greater Boston Area School (Update) A middle school just south of Boston was placed on lockdown after a teacher found a bullet a bathroom sink, Milton Police said on Facebook. Pierce Middle School is currently in lockdown. An unspent 9mm round was discovered in a bathroom by a teacher just... Posted by Milton Police Department on Friday, June 10, 2022 Authorities responded to Pierce Middle School in Milton after the lockdown went into place just after 10 a.m. on Friday, June 10, the school said on Facebook.  Friday, June 10, 10:40 am Dear Parents/Guardians and Staff, Pierce Middle School is currently in a lockdo…

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by David Cifarelli
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Storm With Gusty Winds Leads To Power Outages In Massachusetts Storm With Gusty Winds Leads To Power Outages In Massachusetts
Storm With Gusty Winds Leads To Power Outages In Massachusetts A storm brought wind gusts approaching 50 mph to New England early in the afternoon, leaving hundreds in Massachusetts without power. In Eastern Massachusetts, 906 of Eversource’s 1.236,280 customers in Eastern Massachusetts were reporting outages as of 2 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 12, while 580 of the company’s 221,086 Western Massachusetts customers were left in the dark. The most outages were reported in: Westport: 360; Weston: 312; Longmeadow: 160; Milton: 80; Tolland: 59; Windsor: 51; Ashfield: 48; Conway: 46; Gill: 42. A complete list of outages in Massachusetts can be found here. “Wind…

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by Zak Failla
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For Pan Am Flight Tragedy's 32nd Anniversary, US Charges Alleged Bomb-Maker For Pan Am Flight Tragedy's 32nd Anniversary, US Charges Alleged Bomb-Maker
For Pan Am Flight Tragedy's 32nd Anniversary, US Charges Alleged Bomb-Maker More than 30 years after it happened, charges have been filed against a former Lybian Intelligence Officer and bomb-maker in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. More than a dozen of the passengers who perished were from Massachusetts - including people who lived in South Hadley and Shrewsbury. On Monday, Dec. 21, the U.S. Department of Justice announced new charges against Abu Agela Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, aka Hassa Abu Ojalya Ibrahim, or Masud, for his role in building the bomb that killed 270 people in the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland 32 years ago. The U.S…

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by Kristin Palpini