Lebanon robberies, Walpole shooting may be linked
Lebanon police are looking at a possible link between two armed robberies in the city and a robbery that led to a fatal police shooting in Walpole.
Charlton fire tower
Images of water-dumping helicopters flying over a burned-out, tornado--ravaged landscape in Brimfield in recent days are what one would expect to see in the western United States, not a small town in Central Massachusetts.
I am in awe of what nature can do every time I go to Brimfield, said state Department of Conservation and Recreation Commissioner Edward M. Lambert Jr. after returning from Brimfield Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Lambert said Wednesday's brush fire in Brimfield has prompted an increased effort to remove downed trees from 600 acres of DCR-operated Brimfield State Forest affected by the tornado even though the fire wasn't there. He said about 9,000 trees have been removed from the state forest and 100-foot-wide fire breaks are being created to make it easier for fire fighting equipment to reach a brush fire. He also said DCR officials plan to meet with Brimfield fire officials to discuss other ways to lessen the fire threat.
John F. Hollows, who spends these days in a 10-by-10 cabin in the DCR's Charlton fire tower atop Little Muggett Hill on H.K. Davis Road, said, Those pictures out of Brimfield are unbelievable.
That tower is 1,075 feet above sea level and is one of three manned DCR towers in Central Massachusetts and 42 across the state.
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The LAPD has been copiously fictionalized in numerous movies, novels and television shows throughout its history. The department has also been associated with a number of controversies, mainly concerned with racial animosity, police brutality and police corruption.
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
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Michigan ( (listen)) is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.
The state's name, Michigan, originates from the Ojibwe word mishigamaa, meaning large water or large lake. Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area, and is the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River. Michigan has a population of about 10 million. Its capital is Lansing and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies.
Michigan is the only state to consist of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula, to which the name Michigan was originally applied, is often noted as shaped like a mitten. The Upper Peninsula (often called the U.P.) is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, a five-mile (8 km) channel that joins Lake Huron to Lake Michigan. The Mackinac Bridge connects the peninsulas. The state has the longest freshwater coastline of any political subdivision in the world, being bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake Saint Clair. As a result, it is one of the leading U.S. states for recreational boating. Michigan also has 64,980 inland lakes and ponds. A person in the state is never more than six miles (9.7 km) from a natural water source or more than 85 miles (137 km) from a Great Lakes shoreline.The area was first settled by Native American tribes, whose successive cultures occupied the territory for thousands of years. Colonized by French explorers in the 17th century, it was claimed as part of New France. After France's defeat in the French and Indian War in 1762, the region came under British rule. Britain ceded this territory to the newly independent United States after Britain's defeat in the American Revolutionary War. The area was part of the larger Northwest Territory until 1800, when western Michigan became part of the Indiana Territory. Michigan Territory was formed in 1805, but some of the northern border with Canada was not agreed upon until after the War of 1812. Michigan was admitted into the Union in 1837 as the 26th state, a free one. It soon became an important center of industry and trade in the Great Lakes region and a popular immigrant destination in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Although Michigan developed a diverse economy, it is widely known as the center of the U.S. automotive industry, which developed as a major economic force in the early 20th century. It is home to the country's three major automobile companies (whose headquarters are all within the Detroit metropolitan area). While sparsely populated, the Upper Peninsula is important for tourism thanks to its abundance of natural resources, while the Lower Peninsula is a center of manufacturing, forestry, agriculture, services, and high-tech industry.
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