Crime & Safety
Quiet Neighborhood Deals With Bomb Scare: Patch PM
Also: $25K reward offered for missing 26-year-old; Two restaurants shuttered after customers become ill; Raisman sounds off on TSA; More.
Welcome to Thursday's Patch PM. Today's top story is recapping a frightening incident in a quiet neighborhood last night. The scare in Reading last night was indeed a pipe, but it wasn't a bomb. Police blew it up anyway.
A $25,000 reward is now being offered for information about a missing 26-year-old man from Watertown.
Live in or looking to move to Middlesex County and have silly amounts of cash? Here are seven super expensive properties that no one seems to want to buy.
Find out what's happening in Walthamwith free, real-time updates from Patch.
Local Olympic gold medal hero Aly Raisman, who once bared it all in ESPN Magazine, said she was body shamed by a TSA agent.
Two Boston restaurants are closed indefinitely after multiple customers became ill with salmonella.
Find out what's happening in Walthamwith free, real-time updates from Patch.
An Andover man is charged with vehicular homicide more than two months after a horrific fatal crash.
Patch caught up with Hallie Ephron, author and sister of Nora, to talk about an upcoming book release. It was certainly interesting.
Photo of the day
A homeless man was allegedly promised $20 to steal this $1,000 painting of David Ortiz, which was recovered Wednesday.
Crime time
"Brutal, vicious" is how a judge described an attack in which a man allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend's mother 22 times.
A man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexting pre-teen girls, including one who would babysit for him.
Another man got 10 years for heroin sales.
Tonight's weather: You probably already heard that it's a soggy one.
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