The Cape and Islands district attorney said Tuesday that a body found on the beach at Menemsha over the weekend has no connection to the sea scalloper that sank last month and left three New Bedford fishermen missing.
Massachusetts state police have identified a suspect in connection with Tuesday’s bomb threat at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport. The suspect is Julie Tejeda, 31, of East Boston.
A Steamship Authority ferry from Vineyard Haven was delayed briefly Thursday afternoon as authorities investigated a bomb threat. No explosives or devices were found.
Police aren't directly blaming bars in Oak Bluffs for the July
drowning death of a 38-year-old Watertown man, but toxicology tests
released to state police last Wednesday proved the victim's blood
alcohol level was well over the legal limit when he fell into the harbor
just steps away from five waterside restaurants that serve alcohol.
Kathryn A. (Cassie) Roessel, whose tireless and enthusiastic representation of Martha's Vineyard on the Steamship Authority board of governors made her one of the best-known residents of the Island, was found dead outside her Vineyard Haven home last Saturday morning. She was 51.
State police detectives attached to the Cape and Islands district attorney's office are investigating Ms. Roessel's death, as they would any unattended death. Tisbury police chief Theodore Saulnier said Tuesday there were no obvious marks of injury on the body.
A 21-year-old New Hampshire woman remained in a Boston hospital with life-threatening injuries yesterday following a two-car crash on Barnes Road that marred Fourth of July festivities on the Vineyard Wednesday afternoon.
The crash left five people injured, three of them seriously, state police said.
The three people were later flown by medical helicopter to Boston hospitals, including Heather LaFlamme, 21, of Berlin, N.H., who was reported in critical condition at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston Thursday afternoon.
