New England in brief
Convicted sex offender arrested on T
June 21, 2009
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BOSTON
A Level 3 sex offender was arrested and charged with open and gross lewdness yesterday, accused of exposing himself as he followed a woman onto a Red Line MBTA train. Police said Jerome E. Reed, 49, of Mattapan, closely followed the woman from the Mattapan trolley onto a train at the Ashmont station. The train was held at the station until police arrived, identified him, and placed him under arrest at 9:35 a.m., said MBTA Transit Police Sergeant Preston Horton. Horton said that if the incident went unreported it could have escalated to a physical assault. Reed was held yesterday on $200 bail at Transit Police headquarters. He is to be arraigned tomorrow morning in Dorchester District Court. Level 3 offenders are considered the most likely to reoffend.Attleboro
Man, 3-year-old die in accident on I-95
A 3-year-old child and a man died yesterday when they were thrown from their sport utility vehicle in an accident on Interstate 95 in Attleboro, State Police said. An SUV carrying six people was traveling north on the highway when it collided with another vehicle near Exit 2 around 5:30 p.m. The SUV overturned, ejecting some of the occupants. In addition to the two fatalities, three adults and a juvenile were hospitalized with injuries, State Police said. The second driver, a 19-year-old woman from Pawtucket, R.I., was not injured.Plymouth
Aborted take-off injures 2 on small plane
A plane crash at Plymouth Airport sent two people to the hospital with minor injuries and caused a runway to be closed for two hours yesterday afternoon. A four-seat Piper Cherokee overturned about 2:30 p.m. when a wheel broke during an aborted take-off, said Tom Marr, airport manager. The crash occurred during what was believed to be a flying lesson, Marr said.Framingham
Hikers discover man’s body in state park
A father hiking with his 7-year-old triplets came upon the body of a man lying face-down on a trail of Callahan State Park in Framingham yesterday afternoon, police said. The dead man, who appeared to be in his 30s, was wearing shorts and a T-shirt and did not have identification with him, said Lieutenant Patty Grigas of the Framingham police. The park was immediately closed after police arrived as officers combed the area for clues to what happened to the man. The cause of death was unknown. State and local police are investigating.MEDFORD
Tufts aims to reproduce Newton’s apple
Legend has it that Sir Isaac Newton devised his theory of gravitation after watching a falling apple. Now, professors and staff at Tufts University are working to grow an apple tree that traces back to Newton’s English farm. The tree will be part of the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Tufts Institute of Cosmology. Earlier this spring, Tufts grounds manager John Vik took three branches from an apple tree at MIT that traces its lineage to the farm where Newton lived in the 1600s. Biology professor George Ellmore then took the cuttings to an orchard in Harvard. If the cuttings grow, the tree could be planted this fall at Tufts. (AP)LOS ANGELES
Mass. family has game-show winner
A 35-year-old woman with Boston-area roots has won $350,000 on the “Don’t Forget the Lyrics’’ game show. “It was like being at WENHAM
Ex-Raytheon chief donates archives
The former chief executive of Raytheon has donated his archives to Gordon College and has established a $100,000 scholarship at the school. The archives span Thomas Phillips’s time with the company from 1948 to 1991. They include speeches, letters, and photographs taken of Phillips with five US presidents. (AP)
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