Crime & Safety

Lifeflight, Assaulting an Infant and Lightning

Police and fire personnel were busy with would-be burglars, alleged shoplifters and lightning.

From lightning to burglars, it was a busy week for safety personnel in Marlborough.

The Massachusetts State Police Accident Reconstruction Team was brought in Thursday to determine the circumstances surrounding an accident that sent a bicyclist to the hospital in a helicopter in the morning.

Lightning strikes played havoc on alarm systems throughout Marlborough Wednesday night, sending firefighters across the city to 11 different locations. One of those alarms was real, with a lightning strike at the Lincoln Street Lofts triggering a small fire and setting off the sprinklers. Those sprinklers were .

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A judge set $5,000 bail on Monday for a man accused of beating his girlfriend and their 2 month-old son during a "drunken rage."

A man confessed to attempting to break in to a Marlborough home after a neighbor alerted police to suspicious people in the area.

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Northborough police are looking for a third suspect for an assault that occurred on Howe Lane in Northborough after .

Four .

A woman allegedly attempting to break in to a Pearl Street home Wednesday morning instead fell out of a window and hid in a van until she was found by police.


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