By adamg - Mon, 05/15/2023 - 2:04pm

The MBTA reports all service to Foxborough canceled under further notice because the driver of a truck hauling a trash compactor managed to slam his rig into a bridge in Dedham, hard enough to require track repairs. Here's hoping they get it fixed before Friday's Taylor Swift show at Gillette, because you don't want to get Swifties mad.

Green lights in the sky
By adamg - Mon, 03/13/2023 - 1:10am

Not a Bot wondered about the green lights in the sky north/northeast of Foxborough around 8:20 p.m. on Sunday. Sky leprechauns? The impending arrival of triffids? Unusually southern northern lights? Reflection from Gillette Stadium lit up in green in honor of Girl Scouts?

Escaped pig went on the lam
By adamg - Fri, 08/09/2019 - 10:40pm

Foxborough Police report a little pig that escaped from a petting zoo at Patriot Place spent three days wandering Gillette Stadium before it was captured today. Read more.

By adamg - Tue, 02/06/2018 - 8:38am

WCVB reports his Foxboro home was robbed while he was in Minnesota.

By adamg - Sun, 10/02/2016 - 8:59pm

State Police report a trooper was seriously injured after the Patriots game by an Everett man they say was trying to evade other troopers by heading south on Rte. 1 northbound on his 2009 Ducati. Read more.

By mg - Wed, 09/07/2016 - 10:39am
At least as far as the turkeys are concerned.
By adamg - Wed, 01/20/2016 - 11:13pm

WCVB reports Patriots linebacker Darius Fleming kicked in a window to rescue a woman on Rte. 1 from a car filling with smoke after a crash.

His heroics - which left him with a gash in his leg that required 22 stitches - came almost a year after then Patriot Vince Wilfork lifted a woman out of a flipped Jeep on Rte. 1.

Seized weapons
By adamg - Sat, 01/02/2016 - 1:42pm

A Connecticut man faces charges of assault with a dangerous weapon, possession of an electric stun gun, trespassing, and disorderly conduct after police investigating a report of a suspicious character found him and the weapons in a Gillette Stadium employee parking lot yesterday.

By adamg - Sun, 06/07/2015 - 10:59pm

State Police report they are investigating how Brandon Spikes's Mercedes Maybach came to be abandoned on the 495 median strip around 3:30 a.m. - and whether some fresh front-end damage might be related to a Nissan SUV getting hit from behind not far away on 495 northbound. Read more.

Overturned Jeep on Rte. 1 in Foxborough, Mass.
By adamg - Mon, 01/19/2015 - 5:52pm

State Police report that around 12:45 this morning, Wilfork helped get a woman out of a rolled-over Jeep after a crash on Rte.

By adamg - Thu, 08/15/2013 - 1:19pm

MBCR is reminding Patriots fans that new July Fourth-like security restrictions at Gillette Stadium mean they'll be turned away if they try to get into the stadium with largeish bags Friday night.

By adamg - Mon, 08/27/2012 - 8:27am

No, not the Boston Carnival. Boston Police report just three arrests there.

By adamg - Mon, 12/05/2011 - 4:50pm

The Herald quotes would-be Foxboro casino owner Steve Wynn about a weekend protest by Foxboro and Walpole residents:

By adamg - Sat, 12/03/2011 - 11:54am

The Herald reports on the looming battle royale between Tom Menino, who wants a casino at Suf

By adamg - Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:42pm

A broken gas pipe at Toby Keith's I Love this Bar and Grill in Patriot Place forced the evacuation of the mall around noon, AlertNewEngland reports.

By adamg - Fri, 09/02/2011 - 10:13am

Not the brightest alleged bulb

By adamg - Fri, 11/13/2009 - 9:04am

The Globe reports the Krafts gave as much as they could to Democrats as state officials began applying for $9 million in federal funds to build a pedestrian bridge between parking lots by Patriot Place.

The Outraged Liberal doubts the Krafts were trying to influence that decision, but says: There's no way Deval Patrick wins this one.

By adamg - Mon, 08/17/2009 - 7:33am

114 arrested at country-music fest in Foxboro, 228 put in protective custody, the Globe reports.

By adamg - Thu, 05/29/2008 - 3:34pm

Impact with an 18-wheeler on I-95 in Foxboro today, that is:

... Since I was only a quarter mile from the accident I was able to get out of the car and like many other drivers, actually walk the pavement of I-95. Sure the tie-up may have been a bit inconvenient, but I was still having a better day than the guy in the F-150. ...

Also today:
Lexington Rollover Hinders Route 128 Traffic. Hinders?
Rollover on Sears Road, Brookline.