Results tagged “Burger King”

-- A drug dealer from Providence was arrested in Somerville last Thursday. The suspect had at least 53 grams of crack cocaine he tried to flush down the toilet. Cops also allegedly found additional drugs hidden in the suspect's car. Somerville Police tried to “ward off the demons of law enforcement” by using religious trinkets to protect his secret drug hiding place. He was charged with breaking and entering, trafficking in heroin, morphine or opium, trafficking in cocaine and drug violation near a school zone or park. [Somerville Journal]

--The BPD must love that Burger King commercial that punks customers with the information that BK has discontinued the Whopper. Upon hearing that information, the customers promptly freak out.

--Not every day is a crimefighting day, at least not in Methuen last week. A sergeant for the Methuen PD was on duty - while watching the Patriots play a preseason game on TV. One could argue that it was fine if nothing was happening, but other officers joined him, and only two officers were left on duty. They must have been rookies. The scene could have come right out of Super Troopers - the...

A bullet struck a woman in the neck while she was leaving a Dorchester Burger King on Sunday night. Latoya Johnson's 4-year-old son was with her. Police are saying that she was "in the wrong place at the wrong time" and that the bullet was likely a stray. The child was covered in his mother's blood.

Believe it or not, its hot stove time, and that means time to start talking about the 2007 iteration of the Olde Towne Team.

The initials "GM" have taken on an entirely new meaning for the Red Sox of late. "Gigantic Mess" seems appropriate. It's been two weeks since the press conference where we saw Theo Epstein depart the position everyone assumed he'd hold until at least his twenty-year reunion at Yale. It's been two weeks since we saw principal owner John Henry, at the very same press conference, speak in a manner of disbelief usually reserved for those who have just been told there's no such person as Santa Clause.

Coming off a six-game road winning streak, fans of the Red Sox had a weekend of baseball, fireworks, and (Fenway) franks to look forward to. Of course, the Indians did come in and put a damper on things, taking two of three in the first series. The tribe rode the back of Travis Hafner on their way to those two wins. But - credit where credit is due here - the Indians had one Mr. Keith Foulke to thank for serving up, among other things, a grand slam to Hafner in a game the Red Sox were leading late.