BOOK REVIEW
‘Most Wanted’ by Thomas Foley
- A former Mass. State Police head details his 20-year investigation of Whitey Bulger and how the FBI sought to foil it.
(BOSTON POLICE VIA AP)
Police officer who posed for iconic Rockwell illustration dies
- Richard Clemens, the retired Massachusetts state trooper who posed in Norman Rockwell’s iconic painting “The Runaway,” has died. He was 84.
(Massachusetts State Police)
State Police DNA techniques unlock Mediterranean secrets
- A Mass. archeologist is using crime-solving DNA methods to reveal what ancient Greeks carried in the clay pots they stacked in the hulls of ships.
The trooper allegedly opened a bookmaking business with an FBI informant whom he beat and threatened to kill, according to a federal affidavit.
Sleep disorders plague police officers
- A new Brigham and Women’s Hospital study found that 40 percent of officers have a chronic sleep problem, which in most cases had previously been undiagnosed.
A State Police captain is being arraigned this morning in Lynn District Court on charges of failing to stop for Saugus police after a pursuit on Saturday night following an argument at his girlfriend’s house, officials said.