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A car ends up on a flight of stairs in North Andover, a pickup truck gets stuck in a marsh in Cohasset, and other odd tales from local police and fire departments.
Doing a good deed for an 80-year-old woman By Emily Sweeney Globe Staff,Updated January 29, 2021, 12:23 p.m. Email to a Friend -- Every day, police officers respond to reports of all sorts of events and nonevents, most of which never make the news. Here is a sampling of lesser-known â but no less noteworthy â incidents from police log books (a.k.a. blotters) in our suburbs. BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY On Dec. 23, Lowell Police Officer Andrew Daly and Firefighter Stephen Lyle went out of their way to help an 80-year-old woman after a vehicle ran over her bag of groceries. The womanâ...