If you're charged with drunkenly stumbling down train tracks with your pre-teen son, you can be brought to trial, court rules

By adamg - Wed, 02/24/2016 - 10:52am

The Supreme Judicial Court today ordered a trial for a man charged with reckless endangerment of a child after he was allegedly caught drunkenly stumbling down the Kingston/Plymouth Line with his 11-year-old son.

A district-court judge had tossed the charge - but left standing another criminal complaint for violating a law against walking on train tracks - saying prosecutors had failed to prove that David Coggeshall knew he was putting his son at risk as they ambled down the tracks in 2013.

The state's highest court ruled, in essence: Please. Read more.

Three commuter-rail lines to get weekend service back

By adamg - Tue, 10/07/2014 - 8:08pm

MassDOT says Saturday and Sunday service will start up again on the Kingston/Plymouth and Greenbush lines, while the Needham Line will gain back the Saturday service it lost two years ago.

Suspicious package on Braintree platform halts commuter rail on two lines

By adamg - Mon, 06/24/2013 - 9:04am

Passengers on the Middleborough/Lakeville and Kingston/Plymouth lines are sitting on trains or standing on platforms around 9 a.m. waiting as officials in Braintree try to determine whether a package on a platform there is dangerous.

You'd think somebody who parks a Lexus at the Halifax commuter-rail stop could afford to pay the parking fee

By adamg - Fri, 09/07/2012 - 8:59am

But maybe not.

Photo.

Train vs. Masshole's car: Car loses

By adamg - Fri, 11/14/2008 - 4:06pm

Channel 4 reports that an alleged Masshole who drove around a train-crossing gate managed to get out of his car when it got stuck just before an MBTA commuter train plowed into it in Abington this afternoon. Nobody on the train was hurt, but passengers on one inbound train had to be put on a bus to Braintree as crews cleaned up the resulting mess.

The Patriot Ledger reports the driver "became distracted" and didn't see the gate coming down until it was too late.