An engineer who worked at Analog Devices was arrested today on charges of violating US export laws, helping provide technology to what the US considers a foreign terrorist organization - a wing of the Iranian military known as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Read more.
Several alleged members of a Boston-area drug ring face court appearances today after their arrests on a charge of conspiracy to sell fentanyl and cocaine - in an operation with growing pains that included the high costs of constantly driving or Ubering between Boston and Providence and employees coming down with work-related ailments, from asthma and neck problems to nausea and drug overdoses, according to documents unsealed in federal court today. Read more.
Ocean State Job Lot is selling various insta-tents and canopies, all named for towns in Connecticut, but Looks Yellow, Tastes Red suggests they be more careful with where they put the bar-code stickers on their Killingly line.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that if it had its way, it would rule in favor of collapsing Steward Health Care System and its property-owning spinoff MPT in a case involving the amount of insurance money they should get for rebuilding Norwood Hospital, destroyed by flooding in 2020. Read more.
A South Carolina lender focusing on the marijuana industry today asked a judge to let him take control of Middlesex Integrative Medicine, which has a dispensary in Norwood and a growing facility in Leominster, because he says it's no longer paying him back on millions in loans and its Leominster plant is no longer producing enough product to keep the company afloat. Read more.
Roslindale Stash's is closed today.
Federal agents today arrested the owner of Stash's Pizza in Dorchester and Roslindale - and formerly of several suburban pizza places - on a federal charge of forced labor, for preying on what he allegedly called "fucking immigrants," whom he'd hire and allegedly beat, scream at, and force to work up to 80 hours without overtime and sometimes without any pay at all, on threat of having them deported. Read more.
As WJAR in Providence puts it: "Ernie Boch's Bentley sinks with other rare cars on cargo ship bound for Rhode Island."
Roof fire at Moderna plant. Photo by Norwood Fire Department.
The Norwood Fire Department reports firefighters responded to an unoccupied building at Moderna's campus for a roof fire around 6 a.m. Read more.
Steward Health Care System yesterday sued its insurance companies for allegedly dragging their feet and trying to cheap out on payments to build a brand new Norwood Hospital to replace the one the hospital network says was essentially destroyed by an intense amount of rain one day in June, 2020. Read more.
An entrepreneur has set up a trailer on Rte. 1 southbound in Norwood to sell Trump and anti-Biden stuff. Probably easier to get supplies of that than Christmas trees.
Late this afternoon, several grump-looking people took positions at the intersection of Washington and Nahatan streets in Norwood, in front of the town common, with signs warning the town library had been taken over by pedophiles out to corrupt the youth of the town. Read more.
The FDA today approved a second Covid-19 vaccine, made by Moderna in a plant in Norwood. The vaccine, which can be stored in a regular freezer, should start rolling out to providers this weekend.
Why Norwood? Moderna explains.
The challenges faced by the Boston housing market have been well documented in 2020. The pandemic has caused massive shifts in urban population distribution in metropolitan areas all across the country, and Boston is no exception. It effectively took one of the nation’s hottest real estate markets and caused it to come to a grinding halt as apartment vacancies soar all over the city.
Norwood town officials say they're moving the last patients from Norwood Hospital to other facilities as work begins to repair damage from the flooding yesterday. Read more.
Update: Another 60 to 70 patients were evacuated around 10:30 p.m.
The town of Norwood reports some 20 Norwood Hospital ICU patients were evacuated this evening after heavy rain flooded the hospital basement, "resulting in an electrical issue on the premises and a loss of power." Read more.
Ocean State Job Lot CEO Marc Perlman, announced today the discount chain has given a $2 hourly pay increase to workers at its stores - which include several locations in Boston suburbs - and added a surcharge to its prices for customers who think the workers deserve a bonus for continuing to work on the front line of the Covid-19 pandemic: Read more.
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