Eleven year old Nathan Scanlon got the ride of his life last month when the North Andover Police and Cops for Kids with Cancer paid him and his family a visit in their Johnson Street home, lights and sirens blaring. Nathan came out of his house to a line of police officers in his […]
By: Peter Larocque – Feb.2018 God Bless you and Happy New Year! It is great to be back for an exciting 2018 writing about the Goodness of God! Just the other day after work I sat in my chair and began to click away with my TV remote. Then I came across the rebroadcast of […]
By: Linda Dean Campbell, February, 2018 This session I have filed a number of pieces of legislation pertaining to pressing public safety issues across the Commonwealth. I would like to highlight the following bill that I filed that just received a public hearing and excellent support from the committee and the public safety community: .3520, […]
VIDEO BELOW Download or listen to this week’s podcast. Today on the Paying Attention Podcast Tom talks about lawyers for the Acadia Insurance Company trying got have a reporter thrown out of a public proceeding in a public building during a 1st Amendment civil trial. Tom and Paul Murano talked about the Florida school shooter, […]
Note: The following includes an updated description of the two suspects. The Methuen Police Department is actively seeking two suspects allegedly involved in a home Tuesday afternoon. On Tuesday, Feb. 13, at approximately 11:28 a.m., Methuen Police responded to a residence on Ruskin Avenue for a report of a home invasion. The calling party stated that […]
Yesterday, the Troop-A Community Action Team (CAT) of the Massachusetts State Police was out in full force in the City of Lawrence, netting a large quantity of heroin in two arrests. At about 3:45 p.m., Trooper Brendan Cain of the Troop A CAT stopped a 2011 Ford Edge for motor vehicle violations and defective equipment […]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9sJhxAufyE&feature=youtu.be&h=280&w=380] By: Tom Duggan – Feb, 10, 2018 LAWRENCE – Police have released few details about a man who was shot late Friday afternoon on a small canal bridge connecting Island Street and Canal Street in Lawrence. Police were originally dispatched to Union and Canal Streets for a shooting victim shortly after 5pm, but […]
State Representative Frank A. Moran (D—Lawrence) today announced that a state grant the Representative filed in the state budget has resulted in almost three quarters of a million dollars in increased funding to hire more police officers in the City of Lawrence. This year was the fifth that Rep. Moran has filed this amendment […]
By: Ira Keltz – Paying Attention TV Reporter Public health experts believe that for every fatal drug overdose in the United States, there are approximately 30 non-fatal overdoses. That means in 2015, in the United States, there were over 900,000 opioid overdoses. A possible alternative treatment for Opioid addiction and other health-related issues is called […]
Duggan Holds Opioid Summit with Four Local Police Chiefs [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xz5o9L1ur0&h=280&w=380] TRANSCRIBED BY CHRISTINA JASKOT Valley Patriot publisher Tom Duggan debuted his new Paying Attention TV Podcast last month. The show is a TV adaptation of the Paying Attention Radio program that Duggan started on WCCM in 1999 and ended in 2015 at WCAP in Lowell […]
The Lawrence Police and The Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehensive Team have arrested 49 year old Jose Urena of Lawrence for the execution of Jeffrie Santana-Peguero on New Year’s Eve. Callers told the Lawrence Police that someone was shooting the windows of a van on Reservoir St. shortly after 9pm on December 31st. When […]
Defendant was paid cooperator for Internal Revenue Service BOSTON – A Lawrence man who was working as a paid cooperator for the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with falsifying audio recordings in a federal investigation. Erick Santiago-Then, 36, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs to 22 months in prison, […]
By: Bharani Padmanabhan – Dec. 2017 In the U.S. the government shall not favor one competitor over another within the marketplace. Charlie Baker’s Board of Registration in Medicine does this routinely. The state medical board, statutorily required to be neutral, in fact is on sale to the higher bidder and routinely rents its powers out […]
By: Senator Kathleen O’Connor Ives – Dec. 2017 I recently testified in front of the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on a bill I co-sponsored, S448 An Act Promoting Awareness of Safe Recreation in Public Waterways requesting that it be given a favorable recommendation. This bill will institute a statewide sewage discharge […]
Last month, the state legislature approved giving Lawrence another $1.5M for … get this … improvements to the “rail trail”. For those who don’t know what the “rail trail” is, check this out. Your local and state officials have been spending millions of your tax dollars every year to create pretty walking areas along dead […]