Regional News Roundup: Medford EMTs Lauded for Saving Life; New Year's Champagne [VIDEO]

MALDEN — A group of activists one member described as a “a determined group of 99%'ers” will be bringing the international “Occupy Wall Street” movement home to Malden next month.

A Facebook group for “Occupy Malden, MA” had just under 75 “likes” Wednesday afternoon, with members discussing a time and place to hold their first “general assembly,” the consensus-based legislative body popularized by the movement's first encampment in Manhattan's Zucotti Park.

MEDFORD — When John MacCorkle starting having trouble breathing after an electrical fire at his Forest Street home, he thought it was from smoke inhalation. But the paramedics treating him knew better.

It took some persuading, but Erik Laighton and Michael Naughton convinced MacCorkle, 54, that he was having serious heart problems and needed to be taken to a hospital. He was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital by ambulance, where he went into cardiac arrest. A blood clot was found that, if not treated, could have been fatal, MacCorkle said.

"It was a good thing they convinced me to go (to the hospital)," MacCorkle said Thursday. "Because I wasn't going on my own."

READING — Reading Patch posts its top 10 stories of 2011.

WAKEFIELD — Cyndi Green, owner of Greenwood Wine and Spirits, takes us through the various types of sparkling wines - and of course, champagnes - that you can buy to ring in the new year.