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Accused Monsey stabber Grafton Thomas kept journals filled with anti-Semitic writing and used a cellphone to search for “Zionist Temples,” including on Staten Island, according to court papers filed by federal prosecutors on Monday. Thomas, 38, even allegedly used the phone to find out where cops were protecting Jewish neighborhoods just hours before his alleged rampage, which injured five Hanukkah celebrants inside a rabbi’s home on Saturday night. Thomas filled several pages in his journals with statements that expressed his affinity with the anti-Semitic “Black Hebrew Israelite” movement and questioned “why ppl [people] mourned for anti-Semitism when there is Semitic...

Massachusetts Hero Smashes Window Of Sinking Car, Saves Girl Chris Etre was driving in Grafton when he saw a car sinking in a frigid lake, police said. Etre jumped in to save a teenager trapped inside. By Samantha Mercado, Patch Staff Dec 16, 2019 11:50 am ET | Updated Dec 16, 2019 2:04 pm ET Massachusetts Hero Smashes Window Of Sinking Car, Saves Girl-3 (Grafton Police Department) The submerged car from which Chris Etre rescued a girl. "What he did was very heroic," Grafton Police Chief Normand A. Crepeau Jr. said. "The outcome could have been tragic." The submerged car...

A Grafton couple was arrested after their children were found walking by themselves along U.S. Route 50. An 8-year-old girl, 6-year-old girl and a girl young enough to not know her age were walking down U.S. Route 50 across the Fetterman Bridge, according to court documents. The clerk at the Go-Mart on Weaver Street was able to bring the girls inside and call law enforcement. Once a Grafton Police officer arrived on scene, the girls told him they were going to their grandmother's house because their mother, Dalena Austin, and their father, James Cain, didn't want them. They had three...

On February 10, 2006, the Grafton, MA, Assessor notified the North Grafton Fish, Game, and Bird Club, Inc., that its maps indicate that the Town took ownership of the Club's land in 1997. According to a club member, the Town claims it was taken as town conservation land at that time based upon maps it had at the time. Reportedly, according to the Town, its deed is based upon a survey that used trees and piles of rocks to determine lot boundaries. This is not the first time the Town has tried to close the club's outdoor target range, which...

In some ways, Laura Bush is the White House's stealth campaigner. When her motorcade winds its way through the streets of Washington to Andrews Air Force Base, it includes no limousine and sometimes even stops at red lights. In fact, perhaps the only way a passing driver might know that the first lady is inside one of the black S.U.V.'s is the team of Secret Service agents sitting backward in an S.U.V. near hers, staring vigilantly out an open back window. On the road, meanwhile, her campaigning has generated far fewer headlines than that of her husband's other main surrogate,...