Articles labeled: Massachusetts

A school bus driver in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts has been fired for dropping a 9-year-old girl along the side of a busy road after the girl changed seats.

“I switched seats,” Cyrena Medbury told FOX News on Monday.

Donald Davison Jr. of Grafton was fired by the school bus company AA Transportation Inc. after the incident came to light.

“I would like to see child endangerment charges on him,” Melissa Doyle, Cyrena’s mother, told FOX News.

Another parent from the school picked the girl up and drove her home after being phoned by his daughter from the bus.

An 8-year-old Connecticut boy is dead after accidentally shooting himself with an Uzi machine gun while using it at a gun show. Who the hell would let a kid that young handle such a weapon?

The boy, identified as Christopher Bizilj, was firing the Uzi when he lost control, forcing it upwards and back, causing him to shoot himself in the head, said Westfield Police Lt. Hipolito Nunez. Bizilj of Ashford, Conn., was under the supervision of a certified instructor at the gun expo at the Westfield Sportman’s Club when he was shot.

The annual machine gun show is advertised as a free-for-all for gun enthusiasts, and has created discord among some club members, said longtime club member Bob Greenleaf.

“To let an 8-year-old boy fire an Uzi is the height of stupidity,” said Greenleaf.

A toddler around 2 years old was found by himself walking along an East Boston neighborhood — at 4 o’clock in the morning.

A livery driver spotted the child with dark, curly brown hair and brown eyes on White Street near Meridian Street and, because it was late and there was no one on the street, called 911.

Police arriving at the scene found the driver holding the child in his arms. The boy’s legs felt cool to the touch — the temperature dropped into the 50s last night — so he was placed in a police car and taken to a hospital for evaluation.

Officers canvassed the area looking for the boy’s parents or witnesses. With no luck. Then, at about 6:30 a.m. officers received a report that a frantic female was looking for her son on White Street.

An 11-year-old girl in Boston went missing from a neighborhood McDonald’s earlier this week. Apparently it’s not the first time she has wandered off.

Marizali Aponti was last seen at about 6 p.m. on Tuesday at a McDonald’s near Central Square in East Boston with her 7-year-old brother, police said.

She is described as Hispanic, 4 feet 6 inches tall, with a medium build, brown eyes, and dark brown hair, according to police reports. She was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans, police said.

Aponti’s mother informed police at about 11:40 p.m. on Tuesday that her daughter was missing, police said. She told police she went to the McDonald’s to pick up her two children, but only her son was there.

Her mother also told police Aponti had gone missing before, about nine months ago, but returned home after only a few hours, police said.

Can someone take this woman’s kids already? A mom who previously had been arrested for helping her daughters kick a teen girl’s ass at the mall is in trouble again. This time, she’s being accused of restraining her 12-year-old son with belts.

Police found the boy in the street with his legs and arms restrained.

[Marilyn] Camacho’s lawyer, Mark Finkel, said Wednesday in Framingham District Court that his client was just trying to stop a misbehaving child who struck another family member.

Camacho is scheduled to go on trial on Sept. 11 for allegedly helping her daughters — then 16, 13 and 12 — beat up a teen at the Natick Collection in May 2007.

The Gloucester, Massachusetts high school principal who accused female students of getting pregnant on purpose after a sharp increase in teen pregnancies at the school has resigned.

Time magazine reported in June that Joseph Sullivan said a pact made by a group of teens to get pregnant and raise their babies together was at least partly behind a spike in pregnancies at Gloucester High School. Seventeen girls at the school became pregnant this year — four times the usual number.

Sullivan later said he did not recall using the word “pact” but believed many of the pregnancies were intentional.

The theory arose amid a debate over whether to dispense contraceptives at a school health clinic without parents’ knowledge.

Rodlyn Petitbois is in police custody after being accused of kidnapping his wife and four children. The woman and children have been found safe. Petitbois is also suspected of fatally stabbing another woman found at their home.

State police in Massachusetts and New York had issued Amber Alerts for the siblings. Massachusetts prosecutors are seeking an arrest warrant for the father on a first-degree murder charge.

Authorities had said they believed the 25-year-old father, Rodlyn Petitbois (PET’-ee-bwah), was extremely dangerous and possibly armed. He and the children’s mother lived in New York before moving to Massachusetts.

MT headquarters is along a river, and we routinely see fox around town, even in our yard. We always thought they were so cute, but now we’re going to stay even farther away from the critters.

Three residents of the Berkshires, including a 10-year-old girl, received medical treatment after an encounter with a rabid fox.

The fox was smothered and killed shortly after Sunday’s incident by the girl’s father and a visiting friend. The fox’s body was transported to the state Department of Public Health laboratory in Boston, where testing confirmed it had rabies.

A teen was struck by on oncoming train as he and a friend were crossing the tracks. The friend just barely managed to get himself to safety.

The second boy, also 15 and from West Roxbury, managed to scramble onto the station platform and avoid injury when the 6 p.m. eastbound express train sounded its whistle, according to Transit Police Lieutenant Michael Shea.

Another train had passed by in the opposite direction shortly before the accident, and the boys may have mistakenly thought it was clear to cross, Shea said.

At the scene, a white sheet covered the body as it lay on the platform until shortly before 9 p.m., when the medical examiner arrived. The train had pushed the boy down the tracks about 30 yards, from one end of the platform to the other, Shea said.

An Amber Alert has been issued for an Everett, Massachusetts woman and her baby girl, hours after police responded to a report of a domestic dispute.

[Suellen] Souza and Elton Fonseca, 25, were arguing in a gray BMW outside 34 Marie Ave., said Lieutenant John Cristiano of the Everett Police Department.

Neighbors heard Souza screaming for help and called police at 3:45 a.m., Cristiano said. But when officers arrived, the car, driven by Fonseca, was gone.

State police received a 911 call an hour later from a woman they believed was Souza, Cristiano said. They tried to pull the car over on Newton Street in Everett, but the car sped off.

Everett police have responded to domestic situations involving Souza and Fonseca in the past, Cristiano said. Souza had received a restraining order against Fonseca which expired on June 2.

A Boston infant is in critical condition after she was shot when bullets ripped through her family’s home.

Six-month-old Alianna Peguero underwent surgery last night after a bullet tore through her father’s hand and struck her in the stomach, authorities said.

Her father, Alinson Peguero, is also undergoing surgery this afternoon on his left hand. The bullet ripped through tendon and bone before hitting Alianna’s abdomen.

Alianna is in critical condition at Boston Medical Center and her liver was damaged in the shooting, said Indira Castillo, Alinson Peguero’s stepfather.

A woman in Taunton, Massachusetts has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for abusing her infant boy while she was drunk.

Judge David Turcotte reduced the charge, which carries up to five years of jail time, to assault and battery during Tuesday’s proceedings.

[Suleidy] Lugo, who pleaded not guilty at her arraignment, was arrested after her neighbors told police she was drunk and putting her son in danger.

Police reports said that Lugo at one point slapped her baby across the face and grabbed him by the neck.

Why the hell did the judge reduce the charges?

A 5-year-old boy riding his bike with his mother tried to cross rail tracks and was struck by a train he didn’t see.

The crossing gates were down at the time, but the boy may have thought it was safe to cross because a southbound train had passed the crossing moments before the northbound train arrived, said Pesaturo.

Garbarino’s death is believed to have been accidental, but state and transit police were still investigating last night. The boy’s family could not be reached for comment.

A baby reported missing early this morning has been found, in the trunk of a car of all places.

The child’s mother, Asia C. Sterrett, 20, told police that she had about five friends at the apartment when she noticed that her son was missing at about 1:40 a.m. After searching the apartment, Sterrett called 911 at 2:14 a.m.

“There were a number of individuals partying at the apartment. I believe there was some alcohol, maybe some marijuana had been mentioned also,” Gardner Police Chief Neil Erickson said.

Using bloodhounds, local and state police scoured the apartment complex looking for the baby and interviewed Sterrett’s friends.

“As a result of those interviews, a suspect was identified as Jason Bisceglia, 19, of 44 Linwood St. in Gardner,” Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. said.

A mother who left her 2-month-old alone in the car outside Babies ‘R Us (hold up — isn’t that somewhere you actually might want to bring a baby??) is not going to be charged with a crime.

Shortly after 11 a.m., police were called to the Route 114 store after another customer noticed the baby was inside the car alone with the doors locked, according to police.

After rescuers forced entry into the car and retrieved the infant, the officer grabbed the car’s registration and went inside Babies-R-Us to look for the mother.

Police say she was visibly upset when they found her.

“She said she forgot she had the child with her,” Bonaiuto said.

She’s lucky being a dumbass isn’t a crime.