Posted in News, Podcasts on Feb 26th, 2009 View Comments
Have budget cut tensions in Lawrence gotten so high that people are shooting at City Hall? This week Behind the Headlines sits down with Eagle-Tribune reporters Jill Harmacinski and Jim Patten to talk about the bullet shot through the mayor’s office window. We also take a look at a bodega clerk who could be charged [...]
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Posted in News on Feb 25th, 2009 View Comments
When it comes to deadbeat dads, these guys are the poster boys — literally. Massachusetts today released its annual Top 10 poster of dads who’ve shrugged off their financial obligations by refusing to provide support to their children. A man with Methuen ties (pictured above) made number two on the list. Eric Grenier has a [...]
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Posted in News on Feb 23rd, 2009 View Comments
They’re normally private hearings — no reporters or recording devices allowed — but The Eagle-Tribune is broadcasting former Methuen Police Chief Joseph Solomon’s hearing live today. The chief — who was fired for misuse of federal grant money as well as other allegations — is petitioning to get his job back. Although Civil Service Commission [...]
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Posted in Podcasts on Feb 20th, 2009 View Comments
This week Behind the Headlines talks with Eagle-Tribune Editor Al White about two very tragic deaths, the public’s reaction and speculations and what makes these losses so difficult to deal with. Behind the Headlines theme by Kevin MacLeod. More information at incompetech.com.
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Posted in News on Feb 19th, 2009 View Comments
She just can’t seem to catch a break. Fired Lawrence city parking clerk Susan Erazo was hauled out of her apartment in handcuffs this morning for failing to pay back nearly $15,000 she admitted to fraudulently receiving from welfare. Erazo is no stranger to the headlines. She was fired last month for allegedly selling bogus [...]
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Posted in News on Feb 18th, 2009 View Comments
Despite the fact that their daughter’s former boyfriend is charged with her murder, the family of Caitlin Trask insists their daughter’s death was an accident. WTKR in Virginia is now reporting the accused’s side of the story. Darren Mackie says he was fooling around with his gun and didn’t know it was loaded when it [...]
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Posted in News on Feb 17th, 2009 View Comments
Lizzy Mun, the girl who died after being found in an Andover pond, was a poet. The tragedy — summed up in this last story by the Eagle-Tribune — is one of a series of tragedies involving young people with ties to the region this past week — an 8-week-old baby allegedly shaken and now [...]
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Posted in News on Feb 17th, 2009 View Comments
A young Navy woman is dead and her boyfriend is charged with shooting her in a horrible tragedy reported by The Eagle-Tribune yesterday. The details surrounding the young woman’s death have not been released — other than police statements that Caitlin Trask, a North Andover native, was found shot to death in Darren Mackie’s apartment. [...]
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Posted in News on Feb 13th, 2009 View Comments
The Eagle-Tribune reported this morning a Lawrence baby who is possibly blind after his father admitted shaking her. Staff Photographer Angie Beaulieu snapped the above photo of this dad after police brought him back from Boston Children’s Hospital where his daughter was taken. Officials say the 8-week-old little girl may now be blind. The story [...]
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Posted in News, Podcasts on Feb 12th, 2009 View Comments
In this week’s podcast, we talk to Eagle-Tribune Reporter Jill Harmacinski about how a Historical Commission appointment can lead to a building inspector getting fired. Also, Lawrence city employees may not be too psyched about some potential time off. Stories referred to in this week’s podcast: Lawrence city workers may be asked to take 10 [...]
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Noah R. Bombard is the new media editor for The Eagle-Tribune in North Andover. He is a former award-winning newspaper and magazine editor who has been covering news in Massachusetts since 1997.