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Today's riddle: Why do fish live in salt water? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. Haverhill police take new approach to e-bike safety by offering gift cards, free helmets (cbsnews.com) — Haverhill police are responding to a surge in e-bike and scooter crashes by rewarding helmet use with gift cards and giving out free helmets, especially to kids. After a fatal June collision involving a 12-year-old, officers and a local pastor are teaming up with businesses to promote safer riding and push parents to teach road rules before children ride at high speeds.
2. Legislature Votes to Allow Duffy to Take Firefighter Exam for Haverhill (whav.net) — State lawmakers have cleared the way for Haverhill resident Sean Duffy to take the firefighter civil service exam despite being over the usual age limit, following a home rule petition backed by city leaders. The move comes amid a major hiring surge in the Haverhill Fire Department, while a separate bill could permanently raise the maximum age for new police and firefighter applicants.
3. Illegal Alien Angel Martinez OF Lawrence Pleads Guilty to Distributing Fentanyl (valleypatriot.com) — Federal prosecutors say a man previously deported after drug convictions illegally returned and sold fentanyl in Haverhill, where the transaction was captured on video. He has now pleaded guilty in Boston and faces up to 20 years in prison, with deportation again likely after sentencing, underscoring ongoing regional efforts to combat opioid trafficking affecting Haverhill neighborhoods.
4. Harvard agrees to pay $53 million to settle lawsuits over morgue body part thefts (abcnews.com) — A Haverhill woman was among several people sentenced in a sprawling case over stolen human remains from Harvard Medical School's morgue, highlighting a disturbing regional scandal touching this community. Harvard has agreed to pay $53 million to families of body donors and will create a scholarship to honor anatomical donors, after courts found the university failed to adequately supervise its morgue.
5. Sen Tarr Lauds Anti-Wrong-Way Driving Measures Prompted by Law (whav.net) — A new Massachusetts law championed by Sen. Bruce Tarr is bringing advanced wrong-way driving detection systems to key highways, a change especially meaningful after several deadly crashes. Among the victims remembered is 28-year-old Riley Sergi of Haverhill, whose death in a Boston wrong-way collision underscores why officials say these upgrades are urgently needed to protect drivers statewide.
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