Man reported suffering overdose on boat

Boston

The Coast Guard rescued a man who was reported suffering from a drug overdose on a boat off Lovell Island early yesterday. At 3:30 a.m. a man aboard a 33-foot vessel called 911, saying his friend had overdosed on heroin, the Coast Guard said. Rescuers took him ashore to an ambulance that transported him to New England Medical Center. A Coast Guard helicopter transported the second man to Massachusetts General Hospital. The Coast Guard said it didn't know the condition of the two men.

The cause of a fire that destroyed a Roxbury laundromat yesterday is under investigation by the Boston Fire Department. Flames erupted at Big Load Laundry on Blue Hill Avenue around 1:42 a.m., according to Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald. No one was injured, and neighboring buildings were unaffected. Firefighters knocked down the fire in about 20 minutes. The laundromat will be out of business for at least a couple of months, said MacDonald.

SALISBURY

A one-car crash in Salisbury yesterday evening left one man seriously injured, according to State Police. At about 7:24 p.m., the man was driving northbound on Interstate 95 when he lost control of his car and careered off the road into the woods, said State Police Sergeant Robert Bosquet. He said the man, whose name was not released, was attempting to take the ramp to Route 286. He was not wearing a seat belt, and was partially ejected from the car. A medical helicopter transported the man, who suffered serious injuries, to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, said Bosquet. State Police are investigating the accident.

NEWBURY, N.H.

The body of a sailor missing since July 18 was found floating in Lake Sunapee, 400 yards from the state beach on Friday, Fish and Game Lieutenant Todd Bogardus said Saturday. Bogardus identified the remains as those of John Blom, 65, of Newbury. His sailboat was found adrift near the state park beach with its sails up. Witnesses said they had seen a man wearing a life jacket sailing the boat earlier. (AP)

GOFFSTOWN, N.H.

Two inmates at state's prison for women will be the first to obtain high school diplomas while incarcerated. They will graduate Aug. 17 during a special ceremony. Granite State High School is a fully accredited high school located at the men's prison in Concord. For the first time, teachers from Concord provided classes in Goffstown in conjunction with the education program there. (AP)

NASHUA

Police say they uncovered a mobile methamphetamine lab during a traffic stop. Officer Todd Moriarty stopped a vehicle for speeding Thursday that turned out to be stolen. While searching the vehicle Moriarty noticed chemicals he thought were used to make methamphetamine. The department's narcotics division and federal drug officers searched the vehicle and found chemicals used to produce the illegal drug. Police charged Matthew Davis, 30, of no fixed address, with attempting to manufacture the drug, a felony punishable by up to 30 years in prison. Davis was arraigned Friday and is being held on $250,000 bail. (AP)

CLAREMONT, N.H.

A fire that erupted in the kitchen of an apartment yesterday displaced seven residents, fire officials said. At around 3:47 p.m., cooking oil caught fire at the building on Highland Avenue, Deputy Fire Chief Rick Bergeron said. Firefighters extinguished the flames in about 20 minutes. Though the fire was confined to the kitchen, heat and smoke damage spread to the second story, Bergeron said. He said no one was injured.

VERNON, Vt.

The owners of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant would rather take the slower of two approaches to decommissioning the reactor when it is time for the plant to shut down, a company official told a state advisory panel. But the so-called SAFSTOR method of decommissioning could mean the plant would sit idle for up to 60 years before it is dismantled, and members of the Vermont State Nuclear Advisory Panel indicated at a meeting Friday that the method may be a tough sell. Idling the plant for that long would allow components to become less radioactive over time, said officials with Entergy Nuclear, the plant owner. (AP)

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