Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Public Safety
Individual questioning of prospective jurors began Thursday at the Moakley Federal Courthouse in the murder trial of former Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell, accused of strangling Canton resident Sandra Birchmore in 2021. Opening statements could begin as soon as Friday.
Public Safety
Jury selection begins Tuesday in Boston in the federal murder trial of former Stoughton officer Matthew Farwell, accused of killing Sandra Birchmore in her Canton apartment in 2021, as prosecutors and defense attorneys clash over lost State Police laptop data and allegedly deleted texts.
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Eight Canton firefighters — two deputy chiefs, three captains and three lieutenants — received their pins at a Select Board ceremony, capping two years of promotions under Fire Chief Jamie Meier.
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Milton's Select Board is scheduled to discuss the town's 13 Flock license plate reader cameras with the police chief on Tuesday, Sept. 22, as residents push the board to end the $39,500 contract and more than 30 Massachusetts communities have already dropped the technology.
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Canton police conducted 601 traffic stops in August 2026, up 27 percent from 472 a year earlier, with three DUI arrests and 145 targeted enforcement actions concentrated on Randolph Street, Wentworth Road and Bolivar Street.
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A judge ruled that former State Police Trooper Michael Proctor can invoke the Fifth Amendment in a Milton murder case he investigated, as defense attorneys seek to dismiss charges against Myles Omari King in the 2021 fatal shooting of Marquis Simmons on Belvoir Road.
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Milton residents are circulating a warrant article petition to force a Town Meeting vote on the town's 13 Flock surveillance cameras, a $39,500 program that has drawn growing privacy concerns.
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Canton firefighters extinguished a house fire at 48 Pecunit St. on Tuesday, Sept. 8, within minutes of arriving, with no injuries reported and the cause still under investigation.
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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has flagged Milton for elevated West Nile virus risk as the state reports six human cases and 273 positive mosquito samples heading into peak transmission season.
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Defense attorneys for former Stoughton officer Matthew Farwell allege federal prosecutors pressured the state medical examiner to change her ruling in the Sandra Birchmore death case, adding a new dimension to the Canton-connected murder prosecution ahead of an October trial.
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Massachusetts health officials classified Canton at moderate West Nile virus risk after confirming the season's first human case, a man in his 90s exposed in Middlesex County, and urge residents to use repellent and avoid outdoor activity from dusk to dawn.
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A 24-year-old Easton man was arrested in Milton Lower Mills after a police chase through the Blue Hills Reservation following an alleged kidnapping in Dorchester; the woman was evaluated at the scene and the incident appears domestic in nature.
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