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Morgan Gonzales

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mgonzales@dailyvoice.com

Morgan Gonzales is a breaking news reporter. She studied journalism at the University of Georgia where she focused on health and medical reporting. She has previously reported for the Dallas Morning News.

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Police & Fire

Juvenile Slashes Lowell Mail Carrier With Machete After Threatening With Airsoft Rifle: Police An underage male, armed with an airsoft gun and machete, assaulted a USPS mail carrier, injuring his hand and wrist, officials say. The mail carrier left his mail truck to make a delivery and found the juvenile inside his vehicle upon his return, the victim told the Lowell Police Department when they arrived at the scene on Porter Street shortly after 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 14. The juvenile pointed an airsoft rifle at the mail carrier, and when the USPS worker attempted to defend himself, the underage male pulled a machete from his waistband, slashed at the victim, and ran away f…

by Morgan Gonzales

03/16/2023

Police & Fire

Update: Woman Hospitalized After Hitting Herself With Own Car A 911 call reporting that a pedestrian had been run over by a can sent firefighters rushing to a corner store where they found a woman who had injured herself with her own car, officials say. Firefighters were dispatched to 59 North Franklin Street near Richdale Convenience Store at approximately 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 16, the Lynn Fire Department confirmed to Daily Voice. The injured woman attempted to get something off her windshield, but had not put her car in park. The woman was transported to Salem Hospital with a non-life threatening leg injury.

by Morgan Gonzales

03/16/2023

Lifestyle

Eastern Mass Pups Hope To Luck Out On St. Patrick's Day With Reduced Adoption Fees Some St. Patrick's Day celebrants acknowledge the day by wearing green, some by enjoying Guinness and corned beef, and still others may celebrate by finding a new canine life companion through a St. Patrick's Day adoption event. To help dogs who have specific needs, MSPCA-Angell and Northeast Animal Shelter are reducing adoption fees for certain dogs to $100, which will save adopters hundreds of dollars on initial adoption costs. Kylo is a one-year-old Pit Bull Terrier mix at NEAS who is available for adoption in the Lucky Dog Adoptathon.MSPCA-Angell The pups seeking the luck of the I…

by Morgan Gonzales

03/16/2023

News

Ukrainian Academic Takes Refuge In Massachusetts Thanks To Tufts Program The work of a lifetime does not stop because of political or humanitarian crises, at least for academics supported by Tufts University's Scholars at Risk program. Tufts has participated in the international umbrella program "Scholars at Risk" since 2011, according to the university. The program has recently expanded and is currently supporting four academics from war-torn countries, two from Afghanistan and two from Ukraine. Volodymr Dubovyk, who has a permanent position in Ukraine as an associate professor at Odesa Mechnikov National University, now holds a temporary position as a visiti…

by Morgan Gonzales

03/16/2023

Police & Fire

MIT Grad Students Save Dog Dumped From Car Stolen By Teenager In Cambridge: Police A car thief stole a BMW with a dog still inside the vehicle, but their plot to rid themselves of the bystander canine were foiled by a group of MIT graduate students, officials say. The graduate students saw the BMW dump a dog out of the vehicle around 4:45 p.m. on Saturday, March 11 at the intersection of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge police say. The vehicle nearly hit three of the students as they attempted to remove the dog from the street. The BMW's operator drove off, and the grad students flagged down police to report the incident. Police determined that a teenaged b…

by Morgan Gonzales

03/15/2023

Police & Fire

Four Hospitalized, 70 Evacuated From Concord Senior Living Facility Gas Leak A road to a senior living facility is closed and its residents removed while officials seek to determine what caused high levels of carbon monoxide to leak in the building, officials say. A fire alarm sent first responders to Deaconess Abundant Life Communities, but upon arrival, at approximately 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 15, firefighters noticed that multiple carbon monoxide alarms were sounding, according to the Concord Fire Department. Gas leak at Newbury Court senior living facility in #concord. Residents evacuated. Waiting for more info #boston25 pic.twitter.com/SA7FmRZSlG — …

by Morgan Gonzales

03/15/2023

Lifestyle

Superintendent Donates Kidney In Life-Saving Surgery For Essex Tech Teacher After an Essex Tech masonry teacher learned that his life depended on getting a kidney transplant, nearly 100 people signed up to be screened as potential donors, but the perfect fit was a surprising one - the teacher's superintendent. David Collins, who has taught at Essex Tech and its predecessor, North Shore Tech, since 2000, was diagnosed with a degenerative condition called IgA nephropathy around the time he started teaching there. The condition was slowed with drugs, but after the drugs were no longer effective Collins was forced to undergo dialysis in North Andover three …

by Morgan Gonzales

03/15/2023

Lifestyle

Nor'easter Wrecks Dracut Dairy's Barn, Killing Cows Heavy snow buffeted Massachusetts on Tuesday, March 13, piling up as much as 32 inches in certain places, and sending the ceiling of a barn crashing into a dairy farm's beloved cows. Shaw Farm, a century-old, family-operated dairy that produces milk, ice cream, as well as meats and produce, confirmed the barn collapse on their Facebook page around 6:30 on Tuesday, March 14. "Today at Shaw Farm we experienced one of life’s unexpected challenges," the post read. "Sadly, we did lose a few of our animals." Shaw Farm credits its cows and their cow feed with their products' high quality, like…

by Morgan Gonzales

03/15/2023

Police & Fire

New York Fugitive Slashed Boston 75-Year-Old's Throat, Ate His Food, Slept On His Couch: DA A Brooklyn fugitive searched two floors of a West End apartment building for an unlocked door before entering the apartment of a 75-year-old and killing him brutally, according to the office of Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden. The apartment's resident, David MacDonald, often left his door unlocked so services like Meals On Wheels could easily enter his apartment, according to the DA's office. Dion Pelzer entered the apartment building, located at 65 Martha Road, around 9:30 p.m. on February 15, 2023, and took advantage of MacDonald's unlocked door, entering his a…

by Morgan Gonzales

03/14/2023

News

Framingham 'Spoofer' Tricks Victims Into Wiring Hundreds Of Thousands: Feds A 27-year-old used a fake business to stash the thousands of dollars he acquired through a criminal email scheme, officials say. Gustaf Njei, of Framingham, was sentenced to pay almost $95,000 in restitution on top of two years in prison and two years of supervised release on Friday, March 10 for convictions relating to an email-based fraud scheme that netted him hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to US District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV. Njei created a fake business called "Niej Trading" to operate a sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) scheme, the distr…

by Morgan Gonzales

03/14/2023

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