Regional News Roundup: Photos Inside Abandoned Malden Hospital

Here's a look at some of the stories from the Stoneham region last week:

Malden

: The former Malden Hospital - owned by Hallmark Health System - has been in a state of limbo after an effort to build a senior-living center on the property crumbled with the economy in 2008. The facility, which closed in 1999, still had some power running through it when Flickr user Jvelmar - first name "Jonathan" - took his camera into the facility to explore it in 2009. The renegade photographer has entire sets of albums dedicated to his explorations of abandoned buildings, and took shots of the property three years ago.

Medford

: It only took about 25 minutes to contain the fire, but it was difficult to gauge due to high winds, Deputy Fire Chief Steve Howe said Wednesday. An acre of marsh was left barron and black from the fire, which occurred near the banks of the Mystic River and only a couple hundred yards from the State Police Barracks on Route 16. "At one point we had concerns about the barracks," Howe said. Fifty foot flames snapped in 30 miles-per-hour wind as a fire burned about an acre of tall grass in MacDonald Park Wednesday evening.

Melrose

: An inmate serving life without parole in the murder of a Plaistow, N.H. woman born in Melrose was found dead Monday in his cell in New Hampshire state prison in Concord, officials said. Corrections officers discovered Joseph John Sawtell, 31, unresponsive in his cell at about 7 p.m. on March 5. Prison staff and responders from the Concord Fire Department were unable to resuscitate him. Sawtell was admitted to the state prison in 2003 after being found guilty of first degree murder of Crystal Sheehan, 19, who was born in Melrose, and grew up in Danville, N.H.

Wakefield

: A Wakefield High School English teacher resigned amid charges that he broke school policy by downloading school-issued ID photos of female students onto his town-issued computer.

According to a document obtained by Fox 25 news, the computer belonging to 31-year-old Anthony Cresta, who has been teaching since 2005, was seized by Wakefield Police in late January. Police found several ID-card images of students on the computer, according to the document.

Wakefield Police Lt. Craig Calabrese said there are no criminal charges being pressed against Cresta and the matter is being handled internally by the schools.